Wrocław – the city of bridges, can now be proud of yet another new one, the longest and highest in Poland and one of the biggest bridges in Europe.
Most Rędziński, a part of Wroclaw ring road, was designed by Prof. Jan Biliszczuk, the deputy director of the Institute of civil Engineering of Wroclaw University of Technology. This task was a challenge as the river is very broad in this part and the spans had to be wide enough to enable navigation. He decided to build one enormous pylon and hang the bridge on shrouds. The suspended part of the bridge is 512 meters long, and the construction is of 1742 meters in total. The pylon is 122 meters high and over 20 meters higher than the Ostrów Tumski Cathedral. 110 thousand cubic meters of concrete and 180 thousand tonnes of steel were used to build this bridge.
The lighting of the bridge was designed by BBKS Projekt Design Company in Wroclaw and the engineers of Indal Polska and Luxmedia Poland. The shrouds and the pylon are illuminated by Zeus IZX and different photometric bodies which were designed by Indal Polska for this particular project. Wroclaw located company ZABERD was responsible for the electric works. The biggest challenge was the even illumination of extremely long shrouds, some of them of over 270 m height,and their total length is over 25 km. The final result is beyond all expectations.
The night beauty of the Rędziński Bridge has become an important part of the city’s landscape. The even and light illumination of the road is not only beautiful but it also provides for the safety on the road. The opening of the ring road and and the bridge is also very important for all the citizens of Wroclaw as thanks to this investment the transit traffic was moved outside the city and made the communication easier. The road on the bridge as well as a big part of the Toll ring road of Wrocław is illuminated with ARC luminaries produced by INDAL as the company has cooperated with ARCADIS and BBKS designers to prepare projects of illumination of the lanes, exits and junctions.
