Cycle path bridge, Meilen

Client Tiefbauamt Kanton Zürich
Planning 1997-1998
Execution 1998
Construction cost 0.8 Mio. Fr.
Services Structure and excavation:
Design phase
Tender documentation phase
Execution Phase (including construction management)
Photos LMP
Topics InfrastructureStructural steelworkBridgesConcrete constructionFair faced concrete

An innovative composite structure carries the regional cycle path over the “Bergstrasse” road in Meilen. The bridge, which acts as a three-span beam, has a total length of 45 metres. The main structure comprises two trusses made of steel tubes slotted into each other and welded together. The 3-metre-wide and 20-cm-thick concrete slab, which is fixed rigidly at 1.6-metre intervals to the steel trusses via brackets, provides the necessary stability for the bridge. The ends of the bridge are supported on solid concrete abutments.