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| FIDIC awards Systra a “Centenary Award” for the Mecca metro (Saudi Arabia) At its centenary annual congress in Barcelona on September 17th, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) awarded French engineering group Systra a "Centenary Award" in the category "major civil engineering project of the last 100 years" for the Mecca-Mashaaer metro project. This award recognized Systra's design work on this unique and highly unusual line that was built to transport the 3 million plus pilgrims that converge on Mecca over a seven day period every year for the Haj. In addition, Systra received an "award of merit" for verifying designs and supervising construction work on the Tianxingzhou Bridge (China). This 4 657 m highway-railway cable-stayed bridge holds the world record for the largest main span at 504m. The use of twin decks required dynamic calculations to determine the authorised loads and further in-depth studies were carried out to assess the impact of earthquakes, fire and wind-induced vibrations. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Construction News :: home page |