10/18/2018
KGM, Kınalı-Tekirdağ-Çanakkale-Savaştepe Motorway Project
“1915 Çanakkale Bridge Project” has been introduced at the Highways, Bridges and Tunnels Expertise Fair in Istanbul – Çanakkale Bridge for which construction works are being performed by the contractor company ÇOK A.Ş. (Daelim, Limak, SK E&C, Yapı Merkezi) of which construction works are planned as 5 years and 6 months with an operation period of 10 years, 8 months and 12 days is the longest suspension bridge in the world with a center span of 2023 meters, is 32 meters longer than Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in Japan and 373 meters longer than Xihoumen Bridge in China…
The presentation of Malkara-Çanakkale (incl. 1915 Çanakkale Bridge) in Turkey within the scope of Kınalı-Tekirdağ-Çanakkale-Savaştepe Motorway Project of which construction works are being performed by the contractor company ÇOK A.Ş. (Daelim, Limak, SKEC, Yapı Merkezi) with the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Model is made on October 3, 2018 by the General Manager of the company Mustafa Tanrıverdi during the Highways, Bridges and Tunnels Expertise Fair in Istanbul. General Manager Tanrıverdi stating that construction works have been accelerated upon putting the BOT model contract into effect on March 16, 2018 regarding Çanakkale Bridge Project which is being followed as the bridge project as the most expensive project in Turkey and will have the status of being the bridge with the longest center span in the world when completed, said that construction works are planned as 5 years and 6 months and the operation period as 10 years, 8 months and 12 days, totaling to a total contract period of 16 years, 2 months and 12 days. Following important data and developments in the Project are introduced in the presentation made by General Manager Mustafa Tanrıverdi underlining the importance of the BOT model project. The longest suspension bridge in the world with a center span of 2023 meters being built and to be operated by ÇOK A.Ş. on which we reported the developments since the beginning as TEBA, will be 32 meters longer than Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in Japan and 373 meters longer than Xihoumen Bridge in China. We hereby present the important sections from the presentation of Tanrıverdi: Project Consultants The sponsor and creditor consultants of the project regarding the following areas are as follows: Area Sponsor Consultants Creditor Consultants Traffic Leigh Fisher Arup Environmental and Social ERM GMBH Arup Insurance JLT Marsh Legal GSI, Shearman&Sterling LLP VERDİ, Clifford Chance Technical ---- Mott MacDonald Technical Characteristics of Malkara-Çanakkale Motorway An 88 km motorway with 2x3 lanes, 13 access roads, 4 viaducts, 12 junctions, 4 motorway servicing facilities, 2 repair & maintenance centers, 7 toll collection stations. Similar Suspension Bridges in terms of Center Spans: Bridge Location Center Span (m) 195 Çanakkale Bridge Çanakkale 2023 Osmangazi Bridge İzmit 1550 Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge İstanbul 1408 Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge İstanbul 1090 15 Temmuz Şehitler Bridge İstanbul 1074 Akashi - Kaikyo Bridge Japan 1991 Xihoumen Bridge China 1650 Great Belt Bridge Denmark 1624 Yi Sun-Sin Bridge South Korea 1545 Credit Institutions: Turkish Banks: - Yapı Kredi Bankası - Garanti Bankası - İş Bankası - Akbank - Finans Bank - Vakıf Bank International Banks: - ICBC - BOC - Siemens Bank K-SURE Secured - Natixis - Standard Chartered - ING - Shinhan - Intesa - DZ Bank - Samsung Life Insurance - KEB HANA K-EXIM Guaranteed - Standard Chartered - ING - ICBC - BOC - Deutsche Bank - KEB HANA - Shinhan K-EXIM Direct EKF Guaranteed ICIEC Secured Islamic Finance Design Works 1915 Çanakkale Bridge Design Works Contractor: COWI Independent Design Works Supervisor: Arup&AAS-Jakobsen Malkara-Çanakkale Motorway Design Works Contractor: Yüksel Proje In our previous news bulletin on the matter, we reported that the wind tunnel tests performed for Çanakkale Bridge Project at the SouthWest Jiaotong University in China with the largest testing area in the world were recorded with computerized measurements and these would be analyzed in detail. We also reported in the same bulletin that minor vibrations were recorded during the wind tunnel tests even at wind speeds exceeding 300 km/h. We reported that Çanakkale Bridge passed the tests at demanded wind speeds TEBA:September 11, 2018
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