PROJECT: "WESTRANDWEG" A5
| Description: | Detailed design and construction supervision of the "Westrandweg" A5 highway |
| Client: | Boskalis/Hydronamic |
| Contact person: | ir. R.W. den Hertog (M.Sc.) |
The "Westrandweg" highway A5 project concerns the construction of a highway connection (2x2 lanes) between the western side of the Amsterdam ring road A10 near the Coen tunnel, and the junction of the highways A9/A5 (junction Raasdorp). Its alignment will cross, and will therefore open up, the Western harbour area of Amsterdam. This highway with a total length of circa 10 km will predominantly be constructed on a raised level, and it will cross a number of roads and waterways. Roughly half the length of the highway alignment will be constructed on an embankment. Moreover, a part of this embankment contains furnace slags from Amsterdam's waste disposal installation. The other half of the highway alignment will consist of various structures, from which Structure No. 520 (KW520) will be the longest traffic viaduct in the Netherlands (3.3 kilometer). This project has been put on the market as a Design & Build (D&B) contract.
For the "Westrandweg" highway A5, Arthe produces the embankment's geotechnical design (Final Design Phase) by order of Boskalis/Hydronamic, being a member of the Project Combination 'Westpoort'. The next activities are performed by the geotechnical design team of Arthe Civil & Structure b.v.:
- Geotechnical design of highway embankment (settlement and stability);
- Geotechnical analysis and design of the connections between the sand-founded highway and the pile-founded structures;
- Analysis of the effect of the embankment load on the present structures and dikes;
- Draw up of a plan for the monitoring during construction;
- Geotechnical construction supervision.
The above-mentioned activities are performed in conformity with Combination Westpoort's qualification system, which is inseparably connected with utilising Systems Engineering (SE).
Arthe is involved in the Westrandweg Project during the Final Design Phase. The construction works are planned to be started on 1 September 2009.
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