Zhuhai-Hong Kong-Macao Bridge is opened now

Zhuhai-Hong Kong-Macao Bridge is opened now

Hi everyone, today I will introduce a Mega project which must be very interesting for all ESRs of INFRASTAR project.

This week, the world's longest bridge 'Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge' is opened officially. This bridge will connect three chinese cities: ZhuHai (in GuangDong province), Macau and Hong Kong. 4 hours drive will be shortened to half an hour.

The 'sea-based' project bridge is about 55 km long. There are 3 main 'towers'
The 'sail tower' meaning 'bon boyage'
The 'Dolphin Towers' symbolizing ecological harmony.
The 'Chinese Knots' celebrating connection of the three cities. 
Two artificial islands link sections of the bridge with a 6.7 km undersea tunnel.
The components of the bridge were pre-fabricated on production lines, shipped to the sea and assembled on site 
33 tunnel elements were precast in 53 months without a single cracks.
This is a really young bridge.
I have to ask all my collègues, do we need to monitor this bridge? How can we monitor it as it is 55 km? For now I am not sure if this is a smart bridge or not. But I think they already installed some sensors in the bridge. Will this bridge have the 'fatigue' problem? Or when will it start to have the fatigue problem? ...

Anyway, this mega-project shows us a 'future' for all the ESRs, that more and more enorme structures will be made and we will be needed.
Here is the video, enjouy

Have a nice weekend everyone.

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