Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co.

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Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd
legal form Limited Liability Company
founding 1877
Seat Darlington , County Durham , England
management Andy Hall, General Manager
Number of employees about 300
Branch steel construction
Website http://www.clevelandbridge.com/

Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd. is a steel construction company based in Darlington , County Durham , England .

The main business areas of Cleveland Bridge are the construction of large steel bridges, the reinforcement of steel bridges and the construction of the steel structures of industrial plants, refineries, power plants, airports, train stations, stadiums, high-rise buildings, large halls, etc.

Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company

The company was founded in Darlington in 1877 and grew from a small manufacturer of metal parts to the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company , a global bridge construction company.

In 1969 the company was taken over by the conglomerate Trafalgar House , which in 1982 also took over Redpath Dorman Long and in 1990 the two companies merged to form Cleveland Structural Engineering .

After Trafalgar House was taken over in 1996 by the Norwegian group Kværner ASA, the company was renamed Kvaerner Cleveland Bridge.

In 2000 the company was separated from the group through a management buyout . As the Cleveland Bridge , it soon became part of the Al Rushaid Group in Al-Khobar , Saudi Arabia . It has subsidiaries in Dubai ( Cleveland Bridge Middle East (Pte) Ltd. ) and in Jubail ( Cleveland Bridge Steel Company Ltd (Saudi Arabia) ).

Bridge building

Some of the bridges built by Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company are:

bridge place Year of
completion 		Remarks
Victoria Falls Bridge Livingstone , Zambia 1905
Waibaidu Bridge Shanghai , Chinese Empire 1908
King Edward VII Bridge Newcastle upon Tyne , England 1908
An-Nil-al-Azraq Bridge (Blue Nile Bridge) Khartoum , Sudan 1909
Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge Middlesbrough , England 1911
Kusti railway bridge Kusti , Sudan 1910 also called Goz Abu Goma Bridge
Ponte Dona Ana Sena , Mozambique 1935 longest railway bridge in Africa
Third Verrugas Bridge / Puente Carrión Matucana (Peru) 1937 Route of the Ferrocarril Central Andino
Otto Beit Bridge Chirundu (Zambia) 1939
Howrah Bridge Calcutta 1943
Auckland Harbor Bridge Auckland City 1959 Joint venture with Dorman Long
Tamar Bridge Plymouth 1961 + 2001 Expansion in 2001
Forth Road Bridge Firth of Forth 1964 JV with Sir William Arrol / Dorman Long
Severn Bridge at Bristol 1966 JV with Sir William Arrol / Dorman Long
Wye Bridge at Cardiff 1968 Extension of the Severn Bridge
first Bosphorus bridge Istanbul 1973 JV Enka / Cleveland / Hochtief
Humber Bridge Kingston upon Hull 1981 JV with Sir William Arrol / Dorman Long / John Thompson
Queen Elizabeth II Bridge Dartford 1991
Tsing Ma Bridge Hong Kong 1997 Subcontractors
Jiangyin Bridge Jiangyin , Wuxi , People's Republic of China 1997 Bridge deck
Carquinez Bridge Vallejo , San Francisco Bay Area 2003 in joint venture
Rio-Andirrio Bridge Rio (Achaia) , Greece 2004 Carriageway girders

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Cleveland Bridge UK
  2. ↑ a b Cleveland History ( Memento from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )