Oresund Bridge | Megastructures | Great-Engineering.com | Part 3

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Stretching a staggering 8-kilometres, the Oresund Bridge changed the face of Scandinavia when it opened in 2000, carrying both road and rail traffic from Copenhagen in Denmark to Malmo in Sweden. Follow the progress of the project, focusing on the challenges that the designers, engineers, and construction teams face.

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Science & Technology

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• oresund
• sweden
• bridge
• engineering
• national geographic
• extreme engineering
• megastructures

[denelson83]

"12A"? Dude, no matter what you call it, it's still the 13th segment.

[rujtj]

@ggu2b

I would call it "The SweDan Bridge", so everybody would be happy.

[yoyaya007]

@IraqVideosDOTnet i don t celebrate that who do u take me for , i m Muslim. and that post is too old so get over it maybe i was wrong there is good engineering every where...

[IraqVideosDOTnet]

@yoyaya007 Thats not true but I am sure your family sits around to celebrate thanksgiving day also so wtf. Grin. In Sweden and Denmark they follow EU Standards and all things are built very much different than the usa. I know this for a fact and history of crappy usa buildings show it to the world for another fact. Look it up before you come in with american ways of bashing for no reason. Try mexican and china made buildings in dallas or anywhere in the usa vs sweden and you would c

[IraqVideosDOTnet]

@JetpackKlunk Only in English does it sound like that & that is also the english spelling for it. What if the world had to learn every country spelled as it is or even had to say it proper. grin.

[JetpackKlunk]

@rujtj More like DanSwe, because SweDan sounds like Sweden..

[MrShrapnelDK]

Considering Denmark and Sweden holds the world record for most wars between them, so that we even decided to make a bridge was a miracle in it self.

[Tehkenny1]

@rujtj Dont think Danes would be happy with that since Swedan would be Sweden x3

[turbooggyboy]

@kuddinis24apr The runways often run at specific directions because of wind directions. So building a tunnel was more practical.

[sani12care88]

how long would be the computation of this, moments :P

[yoyaya007]

@87SPECTRUM i don t know where did u get those facts , maybe imagination !

[87SPECTRUM]

@yoyaya007 Yet we achieve higher quality and are apparently also in high demand world wide... Guess the lol goes at you.