Circular reinforced concrete bridge for Uruguay’s Atlantic coast
The bridge over the Garzón lagoon was proposed with the intention to unite the departments of Maldonado and Rocha, located on Uruguay’s Atlantic coast. The precast superstructure was completed with on-site concreting the upper slab. The sections of the accesses and fork were fully implemented with post-tensioned concrete.
The bridge over the Garzón lagoon was proposed more than two decades ago with the intention to unite the departments of Maldonado and Rocha, located on the south eastern part of the country’s Atlantic coast, but for a number of reasons the date of commencement of work was postponed several times.
Only in the month of September 2014, after financing and the environmental record was approved by the National Directorate of Environment, the Uruguayan company Saceem could begin construction of the bridge; whose short-term benefits are that it will replace the current system of crossing of people and...
