Sydney Harbour Bridge
Learning objectives
- Summarize and simplify the main steps when creating a work of art.
- Discover an exceptional industrial heritage.
- Promote careers in civil engineering.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge was built in 8 years.
- Where: Sydney (Australia)
- Opening ceremony: March 19, 1932
- Central span: 503 m
- Total length: 1149 m
- Height: 49 m under the central span
- Weight of the arch: 39000 tons (= 100 Boeing 747)
- Number of rivets: 6,000,000
- Length of work: 8 years
- Cost: 6.25 M£ (Australian pound)
- Human toll: 16 deaths
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a metal arch bridge (See eduMedia animation on different types of bridges).
The metal structure rests solely on 4 bearings. During construction, each half arch was held by a hundred steel cables. These cables were removed once the arch was completed in 1930.
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