The purpose of this great civil engineering work, recognised by KPMG among the 100 most important infrastructure projects in the world, is to alleviate the congestion on the Silver Jubilee bridge, opened in 1961 and which to date has been the only crossing over the river, and to connect this area with the main motorways network in the north-west of England.

The bridge is 2,248 m long with a central section of approximately 1 km and two viaducts. It has four spans supported by three pylons in the Mersey estuary. The new roads system includes a total of 12 bridges and seven junctions with 127,425 m3 of concrete used in the project.

The work was carried out to the highest environmental standards. The design of the bridge followed the premise of minimal effect on the environment; 1,423,225 tonnes of materials were recovered and re-used in the construction. Throughout the processes of building, operating and maintaining the new bridge, some 4,600 persons were employed directly and indirectly. The project will benefit not only the area of Liverpool, with a population of more than 1.6 million, but also the north-west area of England.

Experience in building bridges

FCC has a wide and consolidated experience in building bridges. In the last 15 years, the Public Services Group has built more than a million square metres of bridges of all types and current construction systems. The bridges that it has built include the Alamillo bridge in Seville, the Sajonia bridge, the Otopeni bridge in Bucharest, the Azud del Oro bridge in Valencia, the Basarab viaduct in Romania, the San Marcos viaduct - the second highest in the world – in Mexico and one of the most important communication nodes in Europe, the bridge joining the cities Vidin (Bulgaria) and Calafat (Romania), attended by the Prime Ministers of both countries.

Currently, it is building important bridges such as the Gerald Desmond bridge in the Port of Long Beach, Los Angeles.

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