The Bergsøysund Bridge ( no, Bergsøysundbrua) is a

pontoon bridge A pontoon bridge (or ponton bridge), also known as a floating bridge, uses floats or shallow- draft boats to support a continuous deck for pedestrian and vehicle travel. The buoyancy of the supports limits the maximum load that they can carry. ...

that crosses the Bergsøysundet strait between the islands of Aspøya (in

Tingvoll Tingvoll is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Tingvollvågen. Other villages include Meisingset, Kvisvik, and Torjulvågen. The municipality cov ...

) and Bergsøya (in

Gjemnes Gjemnes is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway on the Romsdal peninsula. It is part of the Nordmøre Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre is the village of Bat ...

) in

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is t ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The bridge is long, the longest span is , and the maximum clearance to the sea is . The bridge has 13 spans. Bergsøysund Bridge was opened in 1992. It is part of the Krifast system, the town of

Kristiansund Kristiansund (, ; historically spelled Christianssund and earlier named Fosna) is a municipality on the western coast of Norway in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county. The administrative center of the municipality is the tow ...

's road connection to the mainland. The bridge cost .

Construction

Floating bridge/

construction has a long history in military and civilian applications on every continent except

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. According to the engineers who designed this bridge, it was designed using recent American technology for floating bridges, combined with Norwegian technology for

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s. The bridge designers researched other bridges in the world and traveled to the state of

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in the

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to visit the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge and the

Hood Canal Bridge The Hood Canal Bridge (officially William A. Bugge Bridge) is a floating bridge in the northwest United States, located in western Washington. It carries State Route 104 across Hood Canal of Puget Sound and connects the Olympic and Kitsap P ...

—two floating bridges. The continuous floating

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structure used in the Washington bridges was ultimately ruled out in favor of the discrete floating concrete pier design. This design afforded: 1) an elevated roadway that reduced traffic hazards in storms, 2) a reduction in

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of the

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, and 3) improved passage of water beneath the bridge thereby supporting native species.

References

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Construction

See also

References