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Charest Highway and Robert-Bourassa Highway Interchange

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Project Details

Location

Quebec City, QC, Canada

Type of Structure

Steel structure for both overpasses (3,850 tons)

Year(s) of Manufacture

2010-2012

Bridge Opening

2012

General Contractor

EBC inc.

Engineering Firm

SNC-Lavalin

Owner

Quebec Ministry of Transportation

Products and Services

Fabrication of the steel structure for both overpasses (3,850 tons)

22 girders for the Charest Highway West interchange ramp

48 girders, including 16 haunched girders at the central pier

Longest girder: 145 ft. (44.2 m)

Heaviest girder: 123,000 lb.

Metallizing

Goodco-Z-Tech:
57 pot bearings of various types, including several with uplift restraint devices

Two 134.5-ft. (41.1 m) LG-3 modular expansion joints

Two 36-ft. (11.3 m) HSS-type joints

1,886 ft. (575 m) of type 311A MTQ-approved guardrails

Drainage systems

Description

Complete rehabilitation of two overpasses above Highway 740 in the scope of the Charest-Robert-Bourassa Interchange Rehabilitation Project in Quebec City.

Features

This is the largest project to be undertaken by the provincial transportation ministry in the Quebec City area in the last 25 years. Canam-Bridges supplied all the steel components required for these two structures.

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