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Most Verige (The Verige Bridge) project

VERIGE BRIDGE DESIGN

The Verige Bridge project, designed in PONTING d.o.o. engineering biro, won the 1. prize at the international, well participated, tender competition, invited by Montenegro’s government.

The cable stayed bridge Verige overcomes Kotorski bay (the Bay of Kotor) near Boka Kotorska in Montenegro at its very entrance. The superstructure, with spans of 41.0 m + 50.0 m + 90.0 m + 130.0 m + 450.0 m + 130.0 m + 90.0 m and overall length of 981.00 m, is a 2.80 m deep and 22.91 m wide, prestressed concrete box-shaped girder, carrying four lanes of the motorway Herceg Novi – Ulcinj and two pedestrian sidewalks. The bridge deck has an aerodynamic shaped trapezoid cross-section. The stays supporting the bridge deck are fixed into two A-shaped pylons reaching up to 168.0 m in heights.

The navigable clear opening under the bridge amounts min. 50.0 m. The bridge is deep founded on wells 11.0 m (piers) and 22.5 m (pylons) in diameter.


Sources :
* Pobjeda
* Official tender
* Ponting d.o.o.
* Wikipedia

 

The Verige bridge looking from the entrance of the Boka Kotorska Bay looking towards Lustica Peninsula:



 

The Verige bridge looking towards the entrance of the Boka Kotorska Bay, from Lustica Peninsula:

 

Design of the bridge:

 

Situation of the Bridge ("Most Verige") on the planned "Jadransko highway" (light blue line):

 

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