Germany's premier bridge engineering award, the Deutscher Bruckenbaupreis, has been awarded to a rehabilitation project for the first time in its ten-year history. The rehabilitation of the 185m-tall Kochertal Viaduct on the A6 near Geislingen, scooped the prize for the 2016 award in the road and rail bridge category. It is the highest viaduct in Germany, and it needed to be strengthened rind rehabilitated due to increasing traffic loads. Detailed studies of the bridge's construction history, particularly of the construction stages, identified hidden reserves that were used as the basis for planning the rehabilitation work, demonstrating that such projects are not standard tasks but demand a high level of creativity, inventiveness and expertise as well as a sense of responsibility in handling historic monuments.
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