Rio Antirrio Bridge

The Rio– Antirrio Bridge formally the Charilaos Trikoupis Bridge, is one of the world's longest multi-traverse link stayed scaffolds and longest of the completely suspended write. It crosses the Gulf of Corinth close Patras, connecting the town of Rio on the Peloponnese landmass to Antirrio on territory Greece by street. It opened in August 2004. The extension was arranged in the mid-1990s and was worked by a French-Greek consortium driven by the French gathering Vinci SA which incorporates the Greek organizations Hellenic Technodomiki-TEV, J&P-Avax, Athena, Proodeftiki and Pantechniki.

The lead designer was Berdj Mikaelian. Site planning and digging started in July 1998, and development of the monstrous supporting arches in 2000. With these entire in 2003, work started on the activity decks with the steel manufacture being completed by Cleveland Bridge U.K. also, supporting links by Freyssinet. On 21 May 2004 the fundamental development was finished; just gear walkways, railings, and so on. and waterproofing stayed to be introduced. The aggregate cost of the scaffold was about €630 million, subsidized by Greek state supports, the consortium and advances by the European Investment Bank.

It was done in front of its unique timetable, which had anticipated consummation amongst September and November 2004, and inside spending plan. Different sources discuss €839 million. The extension was initiated on 7 August 2004, seven days before the opening of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Olympic torchbearers were the first to authoritatively cross it. One of them was Otto Rehhagel, the German football mentor who won the Euro 2004 Championships for Greece. Another was Costas Laliotis, the previous Minister of Public Works amid whose term the undertaking had started.