Our company had the honour of being recognized at the 12th Railway Bridge Engineers’ Conference, held November the 5th–7th in Herceghalom. The Railway Bridges Foundation awarded the Construction Excellence Award to our 2022-completed project: the Southern Railway Bridge over the Danube in Budapest. The esteemed award was received by our colleagues Tamás Sereg, Director of Bridge Construction, and Gábor Szabó, Project Manager, who played leading roles in the project and contributed significantly to its success with their outstanding professional performance.
The Southern Railway Bridge holds a special place in Hungary's transportation infrastructure. With nearly 150 years of history, it is the most significant and busiest railway bridge spanning the Danube in the country. Duna Aszfalt’s project encompassed raising the existing piers, constructing new abutments, modernizing the railway tracks, dismantling outdated bridge structures, and building three new superstructures.
The two old bridge structures to be dismantled weighed 5,200 tons, while the three new superstructures together weighed nearly 10,000 tons. One of the unique challenges of the project was ensuring uninterrupted railway, suburban railway, road, tram, and river traffic throughout the demolition and construction process. The assembly on-site involved Central Europe’s two most powerful floating cranes: the Clark Ádám and the Hebo Lift 8.
All three new superstructures were opened to traffic on schedule, within the planned deadlines.
