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Heavy plate for the Ennëus Heerma Bridge

Facts & Figures

Country: 

Netherlands

Quality: 

DI-MC 460 B/T; DI-MC 355 B/T

Architect: 

Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners

Building owner: 

Gemeentelijk Grondbedrijf Amsterdam

Length: 

230 m

Width: 

38 m

Engineer’s society: 

Ingenieursbureau Amsterdam IBA

General contractor: 

Hollandsche Beton Group

Constructional steelwork: 

HBG Schiedam


DI-MC for the most elegant arches


The 230 meter long Ennëus Heerma Bridge at IJburg, in the Netherlands, designed by Britain's Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners firm of architects, is considered one of Europe's finest, and is the first of a number of such structures which will link islands newly created in the IJsselmeer inland sea by a land reclamation project.

This is precisely the origin of the bridge's streamlined appearance - it is intended to remind the observer of the bodily forms of marine animals, and that this newly won land was formerly part of the seabed. Thermomechanically rolled DI-MC fine-grained steel from Dillinger Hütte GTS, with its mechanical strength and good working properties, enabled the transformation of this light-as-air architectural vision into reality.

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