The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is located in Florida, United States, spanning Tampa Bay, and is one of the longest bridges in the world. The construction of this bridge boosted social and commercial ties in the state of Florida.
The This structure is about 6.6 kilometers long, which makes it one of the the longest cable-stayed bridges in the worlda. The bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in its main span.
The construction of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge required about 2,600 precast concrete elements.
The highway that crosses the bridge has two lanes in each direction. The bridge is specially designed and built to withstand wind gusts of over 400 kilometers per hour and to withstand the impact of an 87,000-metric-ton ship traveling at a speed of 10 knots.
Construction began in 1982 and was completed five years later; the bridge opened to traffic in February 1987. This bridge represented a an important step for social and commercial relations of the State of Florida.
This impressive civil engineering project was designed by the Figg & Muller Engineering Group.
