Harmonious Combination of Traffic Capacity and Architect Art —Innovative Design of the 3rd Macau-Taipa Bridge, Macao

摘要

The 3rd Macau-Taipa Bridge is the first double-deck prestressed twin girder cable-stayed bridge in the world. This paper introduces how the design engineer conceived the bridge and realized harmonious combination between traffic capacity and architect arts in civil engineering design and achieve the objective that a complex project was simplified by innovative design by introducing implementation of the 3rd Macau-Taipa Bridge, of which multi traffic lane and heavy load are required under restraint marine construction condition.