Bridges - Challenges of Planning, Design & Construction

Registration & welcome coffee

Chair´s welcome and opening address

I. The Future of Planning Bridges

The valuable Role of the strong Concept in Bridge Design

• What is conceptual design? 
• The value of story telling 
• How to define, protect and enhance design quality

Martin Knight, Director, Knight Architects, England

Working on Circular Bridges 

• Working on sustainable solutions for our infrastructure - circular developments in bridges 
• Integrating circularity in the design of bridges 
• Possibilities for durable materials 
• Re-use of ‘old’ bridges
• Examples: Re-use of Archbridge Lekbrug and the first circular viaduct

Barbara van Offenbeek-Kuipers, Senior Consultant Circular Infrastructure, Rijkswaterstaat – Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, The Netherlands

II. Facing international Challenges in Bridge Construction

Crown Bridges – Tram Connection to Laajasalo

•  Project presentation
•  Bridge and light railway project
•  Design and project management issues

Ville Alajoki, Team leader, City of Helsinki, Finland

Making of the Signature Bridge at Delhi – Challenges and Lessons Learned

•  Challenges during the conceptualisation phase
•  Lessons learned from engineering the Signature Bridge
•  Facing logistical and administrational challenges
•  Getting ready: Our learnings from the commissioning phase

Venkataramana Heggade, Technical Director, Gammon Engineers & Contractors Pvt Ltd., India

Lunch

Challenges in Bridge Construction: Todays Engineer between Technology, Demand and Reality

•  Draft and deliverables
•  Technical solution in domain of normative and regulatory complexity
•  Future developments

Rüdiger Schidzig, Director, SZG – engineering & managing, Germany

The Coastal Highway Route E39 Project – How to cross the deep and wide Fjords of Norway

•  Why we are building a „ferry free“ E39, and the challenges it encompasses
•  Overview of options for crossing the fjords, including in depth description of two concepts
•  The Submerged Floating Tube Bridge – The „hidden“ bridge
•  The Bjørnafjord Crossing – A look at the design of a modern floating bridge

Mathias Egeland Eidem, Project Manager, Fjord Crossing Project, co-author; Arianna Minoretti, Bridge Section, both: Statens vegvesen - Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Norway

The Brighton i360 Observation Tower and its Implications for Bridge Engineering

•  Genesis of the project
•  From contract phase to completion – the challenges throughout the different phases
•  Why the project was successful and what we can learn for bridge engineering

Nardo Hoogendijk, Managing Director, Hollandia, The Netherlands

Networking and coffee break

Interactive World Café Session

During the interactive World Café Session, we invite you to directly engage with other experts. It is an interactively moderated discussion on different topics.

Discuss and identify challenges within your sector as well as problems, needs and solutions.

The focus is on the participants – Decide what exactly you would like to discuss and introduce your own experiences and cases.

End of Conference Day One & Time for Refreshments

Creating Connections – Challenges of building Footbridges in rural Areas

Holly Bartelt, Senior Program and Accounts Manager, Bridges to Prosperity, USA

Get Together

At the end of the first conference day we kindly invite you to use the relaxed and informal atmosphere for in-depth conversations with other participants and speakers.

III. The Importance of Maintaining our Bridges

Learning from the Polcevera Viaduct – the Importance of Bridge Assessment and Rehabilitation

•  The structural behaviour of the Polcevera Viaduct
•  The capacity of the props, stays, deck and diaphragms
•  The importance of assessment: A systemic failure
•  Stay versus suspension: An ever ending story

Marco Petrangeli, CEO, co-author; Dr. Filippo Del Drago, Structural Engineer, both; INTEGRA, Italy

Digital Transformation of Structural Health Monitoring

•  Structural health monitoring
•  Stream processing of data and non destructive testing
•  Innovative methods and self-monitoring bridges

Dr.-Ing. Ralf Herrmann, Scientist, co-authors; Dr. Stefan Maack, Scientist, Dr. Matthias Baeßler & Dr. Ernst Niederleithinger, Head of Division,BAM, Germany

Knowing your Bridges – How to get a good Picture of the Bearing Capacity of your Bridges

•  Managing all bridge data and make the best out of it
•  Static analysis of bridges
•  Fatigue calculations of bigger transports and simulated trafficflow

Heini Raunio, Bridge Specialist, Väylä - Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency, Finland

Networking and coffee break

IV. Innovations and New Technologies

Inspection of Existing Structures by Drones – Recent Trends and Future Perspectives

•  How to collect and process high quality images
•  Principle differences between traditional inspection and inspection based on using drones – benefits an challenges
•  How to generate 3D models (digital twins) of structures based on digital images
•  Principles & tools for carrying out virtual inspection of structures
•  Future perspectives – How will virtual inspection, the principles of BIM and asset management merge?

Finn Raun Gottfredsen, Project Director, COWI, Denmark

Hybrid Bridges: A Field for Innovation in Structural Engineering

•  Definition of hybrid structures
•  Hybrid bridges in construction history
•  Contemporary hybrid bridges
•  New trends and future developments in hybrid bridges

Jose Romo, CEO, FHECOR, Spain

Computational Design and large-scale 3D Printing for Bridge Building: Current & Future Applications

•  Key challenges the bridge construction industry must face
•  Benefits of computational design and large-scale 3D printing vs. traditional bridge design & construction methods
•  Bridge use cases: Current performance and limits
•  Technological & market trends

Jean-Daniel Kuhn, Managing Director, XtreeE, France and Hyuk Brands, CEO, Haasnoot Bruggen, The Netherlands

Lunch

V. The Value of Bridge Building Materials

Design Guidelines for Optimal Use of High Strength Steel in Bridges

•  Design of highway bridges using High Strength Steel (HSS)
•  Comparative design of a 80m highway deck in standard S355 and HSS S690 using EC3-1-5
•  New deck forms to solve local buckling and fatigue issues

José Oliveira Pedro, Assistant Professor – University of Lisbon, Portugal

Pre- and Post-tensioning with Carbon Fibres

•  Building with carbon fibre reinforced polymere
•  Pre- and posttensioning concrete with carbon fibres
•  Integral and elegant concrete bridges
•  The importance of Baukultur

Mike Schlaich, Professor at Technische Universität Berlin and schlaich bergermann partner, Germany

The Value of building Bridges with Fiber Reinforced Polymers

•  Advantages and challenges of FRP bridges
•  State of the art of FRP bridges in the Netherlands
•  Durable, flexible and sustainable infrastructure using FRP
•  Trends and developments in FRP bridges

Liesbeth Tromp, Lead engineer FRP, Royal HaskoningDHV, The Netherlands

Panel Discussion – How can good Design, Procurement and Realization of Bridges enhance their Value to Society?
Moderator: Joris Smits, Lead Architect & Bridge Designer, Royal HaskoningDHV, The Netherlands

Closing remarks

End of conference