Norway, in progress

Client Sotra Link Consortium

The Sotra suspension bridge, main span 608m, is the main crossing within a large infrastructural project linking the town of Bergen to the Sotra island. The scope of work comprises the consultancy for the structural design of the bridge and of its access viaducts, with independent FEM of its global behaviour, including the erection stages. To point out that the project is one of the first developed “BIM only”, with no 2D or paper drawings.

Braila, Romania, 2015, 2018-2023

Client CNAIR, Association Webuild-IHI

The suspension bridge on the Danube at Braila, located not far from the river delta, is the main crossing in an important North-South road link of local and transnational relevance. Opened in June 2023, with its 1120 m of main span and a total length of 2204,3 m is one of the largest in Europe and the largest in Central-Southern Europe. In 2015 E.D.In. prepared the feasibility design of the structures of the bridge with Client CNAIR, the Romanian road authority. Later, in 2018-2023 carried out the engineering services for the structural design, including design for approval, final design and construction drawings with Client the General Contractor, the Italian-Japanese Association Webuild S.p.A.-Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. The concrete structures of the bridge have been awarded the 2022 AICAP prize as the best concrete structures with Italian involvement of the previous two-year-period.

F. Brancaleoni, CONCEPTS AND NEW PERSPECTIVESFOR LONG SPAN BRIDGES Keynote Lecture, CAR International Conference, Bucharest, 9 – 11 July 2015.

F. Brancaleoni, PONTE SOSPESO DI BRAILA, ROMANIA: MODELLAZIONE NUMERICA GLOBALE E LOCALE, Convegno “Processi innovativi digitali per i Ponti e le Infrastrutture”, Rome, 2019.

F. Brancaleoni, M. Averardi Ripari, G. Carrapetta, D. Caschera, A. Del Vecchio, T. Idani, A. Minniti, T. Shima, IL PONTE SOSPESO SUL DANUBIO A BRAILA, PROGETTO E STATO ATTUALE, Costruzioni Metalliche, 2022.

F. Brancaleoni, L. Bonomo, G. Carrapetta, G. De Santis, A. Minniti, LE STRUTTURE IN CALCESTRUZZO PER IL PONTE SOSPESO SUL DANUBIO A BRAILA, Atti Italian Concrete Conference 2022, Neaples, 2022.

F. Brancaleoni, M. Averardi Ripari, IL CALCESTRUZZO NEI PONTI SOSPESI, Invited Lecture, Atti Italian Concrete Conference 2024, Florence, 2024.

Turkey, 1985, 1988

The second bridge to be built across the Bosphorus, with its span of 1074 m links Ortaköy (Europe) and Beylerbeyi (Asia) in Istanbul. E.D.In. did collaborate with the Designer William C. Brown for the catwalk design and for the analysis of the erection stages. After completion was in charge of installing and operating for one year a semi-permanent monitoring system, leading state of the art at the time, with numerical analyses and identification of the experimental behaviour of the bridge, with the findings transferred to the design of the Messina Strait Bridge design.

F. Brancaleoni, W.C. Brown, C. Valente, SEMI-PERMANENT MONITORING OF THE FATIH SULTAN MEHEMET SUSPENSION BRIDGE, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Bridge Management, Guildford, Surrey, April 1993

Turkey, 2011

Client COWI A/S

The Osman Gazi Bridge on the Izmit Bay is the main crossing in the Istanbul-Izmir road link and, with its central span of 1550 m, was when opened in 2016 the fourth worldwide. E.D.In. participated to the detailed design through a staff secondment at the Main Designer COWI offices, working on the seismic design and on dynamic soil-structure interaction.

Norway, 2015

Client Multiconsult A/S for Statens Vegvesen

The Sulafjorden is a stretch of sea nor far from Alesund, whose crossing is part of the known E39 infrastructural project in Norway. In such scenario E.D.In. prepared a concept design for a single 2800 m span suspension bridge alternative.

Italy, 1974-1979, 1983-1992, 2002, 2006-2011

Clients GPM Inc, Stretto di Messina Inc, Eurolink SCpA, COWI A/S

The Messina Strait crossing is a lifetime project for E.D.In. and for its partner prof. Fabio Brancaleoni that, fresh graduate, started in 1974 his collaboration with GPM participating to feasibility studies on single or multi span alternatives, as well as for underground tunnels. After E.D.In. was founded, the collaboration continued in the eighties with Stretto di Messina Inc, continuing feasibility studies on single or multi span alternatives and on submerged floating tunnels. This period was concluded in 1992, with the selection of the 3300 m single span bridge and the preparation of the corresponding Progetto di Massima (intermediate design according to former Italian regulations). After a long stop, in 2002 E.D.In. updates the design modifying it in a Preliminary Design for General Contractor tender. After award, collaborates with the contractor Eurolink and the main designer Cowi A/S for the preparation of the Progetto Definitivo (detail design according to present Italian regulations), completed in 2011.

F. Brancaleoni, et alii, DESIGN CONCEPT, FROM EARLY DAYS TO PRESENT, IABSE Symposium London 2011, invited lecture, Special Session on the Messina Strait Crossing.

F. Brancaleoni, et alii, THE MESSINA STRAIT BRIDGE – A CHALLENGE AND A DREAM, Volume, CRC Press, 2009.

F. Brancaleoni, THE MESSINA STRAITS CROSSING PROJECT, Keynote Lecture, Seminar on Bridge Structures, Bridge Engineering Association, New York, 2004.

F. Brancaleoni, G. Diana, THE AERODYNAMIC DESIGN OF THE MESSINA STRAITS BRIDGE, International Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, n. 48, 395-409, 1993.

F. Brancaleoni, A. Castellani, P. D’Asdia, ON THE RESPONSE OF SUBMERGED TUNNELS TO ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIONS, International Journal of Engineering Structures, January 1989.

Braila, Romania, 2015, 2018-2023

Client: CNAIR, Association Webuild-IHI

The suspension bridge on the Danube at Braila, located not far from the river delta, is the main crossing in an important North-South road link of local and transnational relevance. Opened in June 2023, with its 1120 m of main span and a total length of 2204,3 m is one of the largest in Europe and the largest in Central-Southern Europe. In 2015 E.D.In. prepared the feasibility design of the structures of the bridge with Client CNAIR, the Romanian road authority. Later, in 2018-2023 carried out the engineering services for the structural design, including design for approval, final design and construction drawings with Client the General Contractor, the Italian-Japanese Association Webuild S.p.A.-Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. The concrete structures of the bridge have been awarded the 2022 AICAP prize as the best concrete structures with Italian involvement of the previous two-year-period.

F. Brancaleoni, CONCEPTS AND NEW PERSPECTIVESFOR LONG SPAN BRIDGES Keynote Lecture, CAR International Conference, Bucharest, 9 – 11 July 2015.

F. Brancaleoni, PONTE SOSPESO DI BRAILA, ROMANIA: MODELLAZIONE NUMERICA GLOBALE E LOCALE, Convegno “Processi innovativi digitali per i Ponti e le Infrastrutture”, Rome, 2019.

F. Brancaleoni, M. Averardi Ripari, G. Carrapetta, D. Caschera, A. Del Vecchio, T. Idani, A. Minniti, T. Shima, IL PONTE SOSPESO SUL DANUBIO A BRAILA, PROGETTO E STATO ATTUALE, Costruzioni Metalliche, 2022.

F. Brancaleoni, L. Bonomo, G. Carrapetta, G. De Santis, A. Minniti, LE STRUTTURE IN CALCESTRUZZO PER IL PONTE SOSPESO SUL DANUBIO A BRAILA, Atti Italian Concrete Conference 2022, Neaples, 2022.

F. Brancaleoni, M. Averardi Ripari, IL CALCESTRUZZO NEI PONTI SOSPESI, Invited Lecture, Atti Italian Concrete Conference 2024, Florence, 2024.