Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, Qingdao, China :

Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, Qingdao, China :




The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge connects the city of Qingdao in Eastern China with the Huangdao suburbs, across the waters of Jiaozhou Bay. Opened in 2011, it currently is the longest over water bridge in the world, with a total length of 26.4 miles (42.5 kilometers). Building this bridge cut the distance between the two cities by 19 miles (31 kilometers), reducing the travel time by 20 minutes (at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour).

The bridge `took four years and the daily work of 10,000 employees to build. It is designed as a six-lane expressway that will be resistant to earthquakes up to 8.0 on the Richter magnitude scale, typhoons and impacts of a 300,000 tons vessel. The construction of this immense cable-stayed bridge was possible with the use of 450,000 tons of steel and 2.3 million cubic meters of concrete. The bridge is nearly 2 miles (5 kilometers) longer than the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway from Louisiana, the previous structure that held the “world’s longest bridge” record.

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