Orwell Bridge

The Orwell Bridge is a concrete box girder bridge just south of Ipswich in Suffolk, England. Opened to road traffic in 1982, the bridge carries the A14 road over... Wikipedia

• OS grid reference:  [ TM163445]
• Carries:  Motor vehicles (A14 and A12)
• Crosses:  River Orwell (Freston Reach), B1456
• Locale:  Ipswich (east) and Wherstead (west)
• Maintained by:  National Highways
• Preceded by:  Stoke Bridge
• Design:  Twin box girder bridge
• Material:  Pre-stressed reinforced concrete
• Total length:  1,287 m (4,222.44 ft)
• Width:  24 m (78.74 ft)
• Height:  43 m (141.08 ft)
• Longest span:  190 m (623.36 ft)
• Number of spans:  18
• Architect:  Frederick Gibberd Partners
• Engineering design by:  Sir William Halcrow & Partners
• Constructed by:  Stevin Construction B.V.
• Fabrication by:  Høsveis & Bofa
• Construction begin:  October 1979
• Construction end:  April 1982
• Construction cost:  £23.6m
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo