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FARRANS - GULL WING BRIDGE
The Gull Wing is an iconic and important bridge for Lowestoft , being delivered by Suffolk County Council and built by Farrans Construction . Once complete , the bridge will provide a much-needed third crossing over the town ’ s Lake Lothing .
Leading building and civil engineering contractor Farrans are constructing the bridge for Suffolk County Council .
Recently , one of the biggest cranes of its kind in the world was set up for the arrival of the first steel sections for the southern side of the bridge .
The huge crane was in place for when South Approach Viaduct ( SAV ) sections one and three arrived at the construction site on Lake Lothing on a barge from Ghent in Belgium .
Fabricated by Victor Buyck Steel Construction , SAV1 is approximately 35 metres long and SAV3 is 41m long . SAV1 will weigh 105 tonnes and SAV3 weighed 213 tonnes .
The huge crane has been erected on the southern side of Lake Lothing to move the sections .
The Terex Demag CC8800-1 has a maximum lifting capacity of 1,600 tonnes and is one of the largest crawler cranes in the world .
It was brought into Lowestoft from Copenhagen and offloaded by the crane used to unload the northern approach sections that arrived from the Netherlands last month .
Assembly and testing of the crane took approximately 10 days .
SAV3 will be offloaded first and placed on a temporary base . SAV1 will then be offloaded directly into position on the Southern Approach Abutment and Pier 1 .
The barge will then sail back to Ghent to collect SAV2 and SAV4 . SAV2 is 30m long and weighs 90 tonnes , while SAV4 is 45m long and 381 tonnes .