The Tervate bridge opened for the public in 2005. This low piston-stayed bridge with slender elements does not disrupt but fits rather subtly in the flat Belgian landscape. The engineering ingenuity of the design lies in the total integration of the kinematics into its structure, accomplished through a design process of structural integration and optimisation; one single element (the piston back stay) performs more than one task. Recently the concept of the Tervate piston-stayed bridge has also been successfully applied to the winning design project of a 27 m mobile span for a normal traffic bridge over the river Scheldt, Belgium. This shows that the innovative bridge typology, demonstrated with the Tervate bridge as design example, offers a new and elegant solution for mobile bridges with a large range of spans.
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