Hapuawhenua bridge wins engineering award
The Hapuawhenua Rail Bridge has received honours in the New Zealand Concrete Society's 1988 Concrete Awards announced last week in Auckland.
The Award recognises the significant contribution the H a - puawhenua Railway Bridge makes to bridge engineering in New Zealand. Winning the Prestressed Concrete Award for the project were consulting engineers Beca Carter
Hollings & Ferner Ltd (BCHF). The company has also been awarded the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand (ACENZ) 1988 Silver Merit Award for the Qhakune-Horopito project. The project involved the design of two rail bridges (one of which was 414m long) and the re-alignment of 7.5km of track between Ohakune and Horopito. The latest computeraided design technology (MOSS software) was used in the earthworks design phase. The Hapuawhenua Bridge is designed to withstand severe seismic shaking and is understood to be the largest cast-in-situ continuous prestressed bridge in New Zealand. 'Quake An earthquake was measured at 5.11 am Monday November 21 measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale. The earthquake was measured at Ohakune at a depth of 149 kilometres.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAIBUL19881122.2.9
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 264, 22 November 1988, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
177Hapuawhenua bridge wins engineering award Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 264, 22 November 1988, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Ruapehu Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waimarino Bulletin. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ruapehu Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in