DESIGN-BUILD
Main Span: 1.2 km (.75 mi)
Bridge Length: 280 m (918 ft)
Width: 36 m (118 ft)
This is a signature structure on the long-awaited roadway between Montreal and Laval in Quebec, Canada. The Oliver-Charbonneau Bridge is a 7.2 km (4.5 mi)-long toll road between Boulevard Henri Bourassa in Montréal and Highway 440 in Laval.
The 1.2 km (0.75 mi) main bridge consists of a plate girder approach with continuous spans up to 96 m (315 ft) and a 512 m (1678 ft) long cable stayed structure with a 280 m (918 ft) long main span. The 36 m (118 ft) wide bridge superstructure consists of a steel-concrete composite deck supported by two planes of stay cables in a fan arrangement along the edges. The stay-cables are anchored in vertical concrete pylons supported on drilled shaft foundations with pile caps at water level. Rocker links are used at each end of the cable-stayed spans to anchor the superstructure and allow for longitudinal deck movement.
