Javier Manterola Armisén (born 1936,

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) is a Spanish

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and professor at the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Madrid. Manterola is particularly known for his work as a

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designer of the engineering firm ''Carlos Fernández Casado''. Author of numerous and varied projects, in collaboration with different Spanish

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s as

Rafael Moneo José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born 9 May 1937) is a Spanish architect. He won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996, the Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2003 and Venice Biennale, La Biennale's Golden Lion in 2 ...

, has won over his professional career several awards such as the . He is a member of the

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Career

Probably, his best known work is the Puente de La Pepa, opened in 2015. This bridge has become the main access to the city of

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. Another of his most important designs is the Engineer Carlos Fernández Casado bridge in the AP-66 which spans a part of the Barrios de Luna reservoir in León, which was a world record for a decade in several categories and is still the second longest span in

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, after the above-mentioned La Pepa Bridge. Author of many bridges in

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, Manterola designed the Manuel Giménez Abad Bridge for Zaragoza's third ring road ( Z-30) and the Barranco de la Muerte aqueduct, structure for the Canal Imperial de Aragón to span the previously mentioned Z-30. For the

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, Manterola designed a pedestrian bridge called Pasarela del Voluntariado. Another of his designs is the bridge on the

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for the Spanish high speed railway line Madrid-Barcelona. It is also the author of Puente de Andalucía on the

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in Córdoba and Puente de las Delicias in

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. In Vizcaya, Manterola is the author of the Bridge Euskalduna on the

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and several bridges for the Supersur motorway. Manterola has also participated in numerous restoration projects of historic bridges, like the

Puente Nuevo The ''Puente Nuevo'' (, "New Bridge") is the newest and largest of three bridges that span the chasm that carries the Guadalevín River and divides the city of Ronda, in southern Spain. Completed in 1793, the architect was José Martin de Aldehu ...

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(2001–2003) in which a city bridge closed to traffic due to structural reasons was transformed into a pedestrian bridge retaining the original structure during the restoration.Manterola et al.

Honours and awards

* 2006:

International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering The International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering is presented to people for outstanding contributions in the field of structural engineering, with special reference to usefulness for society by the International Association for Bridge and ...

from the

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References

Bibliography

External links (Spanish)

* Aguiló Alonso, Miguel (2007)
Javier Manterola, más allá de la funcionalidad y la belleza
Ingenieria Y Territorio, 79, p. 36-43. {{DEFAULTSORT:Manterola, Javier 1936 births Living people Spanish bridge engineers Spanish civil engineers People from Pamplona Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando alumni