Oresund Bridge, Wonder of Civil Engineering (2014)

Re:Oresund Bridge, Wonder of Civil Engineering (2014) by filleokus on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:25AM (#18237976)

Except the bridge and tunnel itself the project is interesting because it both finished ahead of schedule, and within budget [0]. We've studied it in a project management course as an example of excellent project leadership.

Another interesting tidbit is that Peberholm [1], the artificial island have acted as an interesting experiment ground for biologists.

[0]: https://group.skanska.com/projects/57321/Oresund-Bridge [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peberholm

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Re:Oresund Bridge, Wonder of Civil Engineering (2014) by arghwhat on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:45AM (#18238397)

Sadly, the pebberholm biology experiment is a bit broken, as the island is often visited (for reasons I do not know) by police and construction workers.

(I drove across the bridge twice a day, every day for two years, and saw people and cars on Pebberholm quite frequently.)

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Re:Oresund Bridge, Wonder of Civil Engineering (2014) by WorldMaker on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:20AM (#18239933)

Fun tidbit (from the Wikipedia article) that Peberholm is named "Pepper Islet" as intentional joke that it's neighboring natural island is Saltholm ("Salt Islet").

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Re:Oresund Bridge, Wonder of Civil Engineering (2014) by Symbiote on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:54AM (#18240256)

"Holm" is a valid, though obsuce, English word. We can quite reasonably translate the two holms as "Pepper Holm" and "Salt Holm".

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Re:Oresund Bridge, Wonder of Civil Engineering (2014) by ZeroResoundFTW on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:35AM (#18238019)

My grandma's sister was in on developing that bridge. As well as many things underground within denmark. It's kinda like sin city 2k as FAIK .

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