Levensauer Hochbrücke
Thinkproject CDE INFRASTRUCTURE was chosen for professional drawing management with complex workflow automation, and is used for execution planning.
Project
The combined pedestrian, road and railroad elevated viaduct Levensau was built in 1894 and is the oldest bridge structure spanning the Kiel Canal. It leads the Kreisstraße 24 and the railroad line Kiel-Eckernförde across the NOK. From 2024 onwards, the technical life of the bridge is expected to come to an end.
A new replacement construction is economically more cost-effective than repairing the bridge.
In the past, the bridge was repeatedly rebuilt and adapted to the traffic needs of road and rail, but no adaptation to the traffic development of water transport has taken place since the first widening in 1914. The bridge spans the narrowest point in the entire route of the Kiel Canal.
With the replacement of the first Levensauer Hochbrücke, it will be possible to ensure the sustainability of the Kiel Canal. A transparent bridge construction was chosen for the replacement new building, which will be erected on the same site and is intended to remind us of the old, omitted construction. The southern abutment will be built over without having to bear the weight of the new bridge and will remain an important bat wintering ground.
The construction of the site road on the northern bank of the canal is planned to start in summer 2020. The new site road will optimise the flow of site traffic. Instead of using the Am Kanal road, the site access road thus leads directly from the west side of the northern bridge embankment into the construction site.
To determine the best possible structural solution for the project, it was first structured into several sub-projects. Thinkproject Document & Communication Management is used in one of these subprojects.
The overall project is divided into:
- Canal widening from 93.2 to 94.2 kilometers including bank walls, earthworks above and below water embankment protection and concepts for using and transferring the excavated earth
- Pillar and foundation securing of the existing second “Levensauer Hochbrücke” (B76 bridge)
- Replacement of the bridge superstructure including foundations
- Securing the southern abutment as a bat habitat
- Traffic planning of the crossing traffic routes road and rail
Result
For the construction project “Levensauer Hochbrücke” the Thinkproject CDE INFRASTRUCTURE professional drawing management with complex workflow automation is used for the execution planning. Various designers, inspection engineers, the Kiel-Holtenau Waterway and Shipping Authority and the Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) authorities authorised to submit building documents are integrated into the workflows.
The administration and review of drawings and statics is carried out in individual workflows. Automated repro orders are controlled via the workflow and are used to support the checking of drawings and for the construction site.
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