Masters

Megan Masters


 * 1) The bridge i researched is the Pont De Normandie.
 * 2) The Pont de Normandie construction started in 1988 and was finished in 1995. It was built in Normandy, in northern France.
 * 3) The bridge was built because it was needed to take the place of another much older bridge, called the tancarville bridge. The Pont de Normandie spans over the seine river, and links the two citys, le harrve and honfleur.
 * 4)  To connect the cities le harrve and honfleur, and to make the journey easier to travel from the two cities.
 * 5) The Pont de Normandie is a cable bridge.
 * 6) After the 7 years of construction, it had costed 465 million dollars.
 * 7) The materials used to create the Pont de Normandie were, 70,000 tons of concrete, 184 cables, and 19,000 tons of steel.
 * 8)  Some of the challenges faced during the construction of the Pont de Normandie were the river bed was to soft to hold a suspension bridge, and would have not been able to support the bridge, so they decided to build a cable bridge that was lighter and it cost less to build than any other bridge.
 * 9)  The construction started in 1988 and ended in 1995, it lasted 7 years, and was open to the public january 20, 1995.
 * 10) The span of the bridge is 23.6 meters (77 ft), it is 2143.21 meters in length, and is 856 meters between the two pylons.
 * 11) The two pylons are both 20,000 tons, 214 meters tall. They are the tallest bridge towers of this type in the world. The POnt de Normandie was rated number 9 out of the 10 tallest bridges in the world, and it is 165 meters above the water. When the Pont de Normandie bridge was built in 1995, it was both the longest cable stayed bridge, and had the record for the longest distance between piers for any cable stayed bridge. media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=the+Pont+de+normandie+bridge&ie=UTF8&hq=the+Pont+de+normandie+bridge&hnear=&ll=49.48781,0.12557&spn=0.257948,0.724386&output=embed" width="425" height="350"