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The joint venture of Balfour Beatty VINCI reports that it has completed what it calls "the world-first box bridge slide" over the M42 in England. Workers slid the concrete shell of 12,600tonne bridge a record 165m to position it across the M42 motorway in the county of Warwickshire. Around 450 people worked on the operation during the Christmas week, a quiet time on the roads. A section of the motorway section was closed for the 10-day operation. The slide operation itself took only 48 hours at a speed of 4m per hour, explained Sasan Ghavami, Balfour Beatty VINCI's construction director for the project. "We've used innovative construction techniques and worked tirelessly throughout the Christmas period to move this 12,600tonne bridge over the M42 - all done with the aim of keeping disruption to an absolute minimum." |