Bridges

Aesthetic harmony of form and function

In the conception, planning and design of bridges and engineering structures, SSF Ingenieure plays a leading role. Since the foundation of the company, it has designed, planned the construction or supervised the actual building of over 8,300 bridges and engineering structures. The company‘s many years of experience and accumulated expertise include the construction of a wide range of bridges, such as: large-scale viaducts and suspension bridges, cable-stayed and arch bridges, extremely inclined portal frame bridges, the complex refurbishment of railway bridges while still in use, bridge repairs, footbridges and counterpoise bridges. Holistic thinking and responsible design result in well-engineered bridges, which are designed using appropriate materials and boast an enormous variety of load-bearing structures and forms.

Cost-effectiveness First and foremost, bridges always have a technical function: they join two or more different points. In a developed and intensively used environment, this requires comprehensive planning. Our passion for complex problems leads us to develop plans together with clients and construction companies. Bridges must also meet high aesthetic standards. We devote great attention to the elegance of a structure and the care in the structural details. We harmonise form and aesthetics with the structural requirements – and make sure that both aspects are economically balanced.

We aim to optimise durability and sturdiness with minimum maintenance and service costs, while at the same time creating formally attractive and ambitious structures. SSF consequently attaches the greatest importance to designing and implementing integral structures without joints and bearings as well as to efficient load-bearing structures and construction methods that, with regard to sustainability, leave a small “carbon footprint” over the course of their life cycle.