Kyiv region: for the first time in Ukraine, two strategic bridges were rebuilt!

Two significant, historical events in the Kyiv region at once!

Yesterday, we opened the right-hand drive on the bridge over the Trubizh River on the Kharkiv Highway (M-03 Kyiv – Kharkiv – Dovzhanskyi).

Today we are launching traffic on the right side of the bridge in Stoyanka on the Zhytomyr highway (M-06 Kyiv-Chop).

For the first time in Ukraine, after the Russian invasion, large strategic infrastructure facilities were rebuilt. ❗️ Important! We did not restore old buildings that were built in Soviet times. Bridges are built according to modern technologies and meet modern requirements.

Implementation of projects of this scale in record time during the war(!) is a victory for our company. Evidence of professionalism and high motivation of our team. More details about each of the objects.

 We have already told in detail about the history of the bridge in Stoyanka. https://www.facebook.com/automagis…/posts/5612549058803218 Back in May, we restored left-hand traffic according to a temporary scheme. The structure of the two new spans of the left part consists of metal supports and beams. A monolithic slab 25 cm thick and a 6 cm layer of ABS on modified bitumen are arranged on top. The right-hand drive is a capital structure with five spans over 80 meters long. Also, the 100-meter approaches to the bridge were actually rebuilt, because the geometry of the bridge structure has changed.

Unfortunately, with the opening of the right lane, it will be necessary to partially limit the movement of the left side, narrowing the lane to one lane. The reason is cracks in the supports on the three spans that remained from the old bridge. It appeared that the structures were also partially damaged during the blast. Specialists will decide the further fate of the left lane, most likely it will have to be dismantled and a new bridge built according to the example of the right lane.

The bridge over Trubizh near the village of Borshchiv on the Kharkiv highway was also blown up at the beginning of the war to prevent the enemy from breaking through to the capital. The length of the building is 93 meters. Three running structures were destroyed and two were damaged. Back in April, our company arranged a temporary detour and began dismantling the emergency structures. The bridge was completely dismantled.

Construction was carried out according to a standard scheme: installation of bored piles, supports, grates, nozzles, crossbars and other structures, installation of reinforced concrete beams (8 units for each span). The next stages are a reinforced monolithic slab 22 cm thick, waterproofing, two layers of asphalt concrete, monolithic sidewalks with an anti-slip and waterproof coating, a metal barrier fence, a handrail fence.

The approaches to the 150-meter-long bridge have been completely replaced, because the structure was built a long time ago and did not meet modern requirements for first-category highways. The new bridge and the approaches are wider, so it was necessary to completely dismantle the road surface on the sections of the approaches directly adjacent to the bridge (53 meters each). On the rest of the approaches (97 meters each), only milling was carried out and the leveling and upper layers of asphalt concrete are being arranged. The right lane of the bridge is currently open. On the left, a monolithic slab is arranged, work on the approaches is ongoing. We plan to fully open two lanes of traffic by the end of November.

The restoration of both bridges means the full operation of the strategic transport corridor from the western border to Kyiv, Poltava, Kharkiv. We are proud that it was our team that had the opportunity to implement these important projects!

In general, “Automagistral-Pivden” bridge builders are working on the restoration of dozens of infrastructure facilities in the Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions.

We work for Ukraine, we work for Victory!