M.+Frank

Max Frank

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 * 1) The bridge that I chose was the Confederation Bridge.
 * 2) The bridge was started in 1993 and finished in 1997, it took four years to build. The Confederation Bridge is in Canada connecting Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
 * 3) The purpose of the bridge is to connect Prince Edward Island to the mainland, New Brunswick, in Canada. It connects the Island to the mainland so that it is easier to get back and forth from the island. Ice covers the water in between the two places five months out of the year, and before the bridge was built the only way to get to the island was by ferry.
 * 4) The bridge was needed so that it would be easier to get back and forth from Prince Edward Island especially when the water was covered in ice five months out of the year.
 * 5) The Confederation bridge is a segmented bridge, specifically a box girder structure.
 * 6) The Confederation bridge cost one billion dollars.
 * 7) The bridge was built out of reinforced post tension concrete.
 * 8) Since the water that is under the bridge is covered in water for five months out of the year engineers needed to figure out how to build the bridge so that the ice would not break it. They had to build specials pieces onto the pillars of the bridge so that they would lift up the ice and it would break under its own weight. also the bridge was so long that they needed to figure out a way to build it so that it would it would stay up. they choose the design that they did because of that.
 * 9) It took four years to build the bridge.
 * 10) The bridge is 12.9 kilometers or 9 miles long. It is 11 meters from barrier wall to barrier wall or 36 feet. The bridge is 40 meters off the surface of the water or 130 feet.
 * 11) The Confederation Bridge is the longest bridge in the world over ice covered water. Because the bridge was built it increased tourism and industry on Prince Edward Island.

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