September 24th was inaugurated the bridge of the Bay of Cadiz. Conceptual, Detailed Design and Technical asistance during Construction.

El Puente de la Constitución de 1812 se inauguró ayer en una ceremonia sobria y sin alardes, y que supondrá para Cádiz y su área metropolitana la entrada a un nuevo tiempo, más próspero, y en el que la mejora en las comunicaciones traiga consigo el aumento de la riqueza y trabajo...
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The central span of the Cadiz Bay cable stayed Bridge is finally closed.

The May 16 the successful closure of the center span of the Cadiz Bay Bridge was carried out. Juan Antonio Navarro, Carlos Fernández Casado SL engineer, describes the final operations, which were complex because to minimize the blocking elements, a procedure was designed so that...
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The “La Novena” Viaduct

The “La Novena” Viaduct will join the 45th Street with the Mutis neighborhood through a cable-stayed bridge of 550.8 meters in length. It is the new alternative to join the Center with Real de Minas. After nearly five years of construction, on April 9 at night the...
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ACS will build the largest US cable-stayed bridge. CFCSL was part of the advisory team.

ACS continues its breakthrough in the US market. Through the joint venture of its subsidiaries, Flatiron and Dragados, the design, construction and maintenance of the US 181 Harbor Bridge Replacement project in Corpus Christi (Texas)has been awarded to them, amounting to 983.4...
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Manuel Escamilla García-Galán has been awarded with the 2014 “Young Professional” Award, conceded by ALE Heavylift.

        With a Master Degree on Civil and Structural Engineering by the University of Granada (Spain) obtained in 2001, Manuel Escamilla has been involved in the following Projects (among others): –       Seville’s Line-1 Subway (Spain, 2005-2007)....
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Photo and video report of the new bridge over the Bay of Cadiz. CFCSL Conceptual, Detailed Design and Technical asistance during Construction.

We present below the photo shoot of the new bridge over the Cádiz Bay, two timelaps that shows the construction process and the RTVE report (spanish). Photo shoot. Photos by Carlos Manterola (www.infotografia.es) Access to data sheet in CFCSL   Time Lapse de...
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Removing bridges; new Cadiz Bridge’s unlimited clearance.

Interesting article from Manuel Escamilla, CFCSL engineer, in Estructurando web. Statics, what a structural engineers’ friend! The welcoming place in Mechanics where we like to stay and we feel balanced, far away from Dynamic’s entropic frenzy. What a comfortable satisfaction we...
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Construction of the Pumarejo Bridge in Barranquilla awarded to Sacyr. CFCSL project.

Sacyr Construction will build the longest bridge in Colombia 2.28 (km) and the largest public works project in the country, of 223 million euros. CFCSL developed for the ECOPUENTES consortium (IVICSA, JORGE FANDIÑO structuring COLOMBIA SAS and SAS) the studies of the structures...
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Viaduct over the Alcántara Reservoir: Walking over the Tagus

The viaduct, situated on the high speed railway line in the Cañaveral-Alcantara reservoir strech, has been designed by CFCSL and built by the UTE Cañaveral (Copisa and Copasa) for the Administrator of Rail Infrastructure Adif. CFCSL also provides the work’s technical...
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Vidalta and Alcántara, more CFC projects at IABSE 2014

This week we present the third group of CFC papers at IABSE 2014: the Vidalta Bridge in Mexico City and the Alcántara Viaduct in Cáceres, Spain. VIDALTA CABLE-STAYED BRIDGE     Leonardo Fernández, Lucía Fernández, Antonio Cano y José Cuervo PDF presentation Bridge data...
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