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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Closer each day: CFC in Peru.

MARANURA BRIDGE ‘CULTURA’ BRIDGE OVER THE CHILI RIVER The arches are to be built applying the procedure of the semi-arches rotation with the help of provisional stay cables, a system proposed in different projects currently underway across South America and used by CFC in various...
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IABSE Symposium to be held in Madrid from 3 to 5 September

    CFCSL participates at IASBE with the following papers: Spanish Bridges (Sesión Plenaria) Javier Manterola Stayed Viaduct in Bucaramanga, Colombia Leonardo Fernández, Lucía Fernández, Guillermo Ayuso, Antonio Cano, Raúl González, Celso Iglesias Design features of the...
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CFC invited to the First International Bridges Conference in Chile, 2014

Javier Muñoz-Rojas Fernández, an engineer with CFC, has received an invitation to present the paper “Current Possibilities of Cable-Stayed Bridges: Long Spans, Medium Spans and Special Configurations” at the First International Bridges Conference in Chile.  The paper features an...
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CFCSL wins the bid for the construction of the new bridge over the River Mamoré in Bolivia.

CFCSL has won the contract for the construction project of the Bridge over the River Mamoré in Bolivia, as the specialist on structures of the consortium formed by the firms Euroestudios‐CPS‐Belmonte. The bridge over the River Mamoré is a promise made years ago by the President...
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CFC continues publishing its papers presented at IABSE 2014

Last week we published the first two papers presented by CFC at IABSE 2014 Madrid. Ver . Today we continue with the publication of the “Accessways to the Western Entrance to the ‘Dos Valiras’ Tunnel in Andorra” and the “High-Speed Railway Bridge over the Tera River in Zamora”....
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Load Test of the Engordany Roundabout in Andorra

The load test of the Engordany Roundabout was carried out on October 6 2014 in Escaldes on the old Massana-bound road in Andorra. As Guillermo Ayuso Calle, a senior engineer with CFC, points out two loading states were applied using a total on 22 trucks.  In order to carry out...
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The new Karabel Bridge installation in Hernani

The Urumea River Basin is an area greatly struck by flooding. This is the reason why the Basque Regional Government Agency for Environmental and Territorial Policy and the Basque Water Agency – URA, are implementing an action plan to reduce the floodability of the river and the...
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