Program 2025
Since the 1950s, all our countries have redoubled their efforts in the field of land transport infrastructure. Indeed, economic growth has been such that a huge number of road and rail have had to be built.
These communication routes include numerous civil engineering structures, like bridges, viaducts, tunnels and retaining structures. These structures have aged, were no sufficiently maintained, thus, are deteriorating badly. They have been subjected to numerous stresses, from heavier and more intense traffic to ever growing climate constraints, with the effects of climate change. The stock of these structures is immense.
We must focus our efforts to maintaining and structurally reinforcing existing structures.
We estimate that Europe has around 1 million bridges. This figure represents an estimated new value of 2,000 billion EUR. Consequently, the budget required for routine maintenance should represent around 1.5% of this new value, i.e., 30 billion EUR annually. This effort should be made to maintain the communication routes at a level of safety that every one of us, users, can aspire.
We must not forget that these existing structures, and by extension the roads they equip, are the foundations of our economic and social development.
Come and join us in the EUROBRIDGE project. The aim of this conference and platform, organized every year in April in Brussels, is to take stock of all existing and innovative technique/management methods to maintain and monitor communications infrastructure, in direct liaison with the European Commission and Parliament.
The next edition will be held on Friday, April 11, 2025.
Registrations
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Exhibitors
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Past Editions
2024 edition
The 3rd edition of EUROBRIDGE, conference on bridge safety in Europe, was held in Brussels on 5 April 2024 and gathered 100 participants.
The invited speakers and experts discussed maintenance models, as well as carbon impact of failed maintenance and the training of skilled technicians and engineers to provide effective support.
Germany notably presented its model to modernise bridges and its carbon pricing proposition in the procurement process. While Italy shared concrete examples of remarkable rehabilitation of structures.
Bridges are essential for our road and rail networks and are fundamental for the social and economic development of our societies. However, most of them need increasingly extensive rehabilitation work. This represents a huge potential for construction companies, all over Europe.
2023 edition
The 2nd edition of EUROBRIDGE conference took place on April 14th, 2023.
The conference was focused on bridge maintenance and safety in Europe and aimed to put forward issues around engineering work maintenance in the respect of environment, with an eye on the decrease of carbon footprint, as well as the training of new professionals in the sector. With keynote speeches by Christian Tridon (FIEC), Philip Crampton (FIEC Past-President), MEP Dominique Riquet (member of the EP Transport Committee), from Germany, Italy, etc. the event was organised in 3 Roundtables: inspection and management, the environmental impacts of bridges and new professions for bridge management.
Bridges are essential elements of communication routes, whether road or rail. It is essential to keep them in good working state. The maintenance of a bridge always starts with the perfect knowledge of its condition. The diagnosis allows to establish the corrective measures. The conference presented a selection of original examples implemented in some European countries.
Site visits
To alert on the necessity of maintaining our infrastructure state, EUROBRIDGE is organizing every year, in the margins of the conference, site visits. EUROBRIDGE invites political figures of the region, administrations, entrepreneurs, engineers etc. to participate in those visits, and realize the impact these communication infrastructure have on the economic and social surroundings.
Huccorgne Viaduct, Belgium, 2023
The first site visit took place in Belgium, in March 2023, to discover the rehabilitation works on the Huccorgne Viadduc, conducted by Besix and Galere. The bridge was built in 1969-1970, and it encounters a daily traffic of 60 000 vehicules. The bridge suffered from its usage, from adverse weather conditions, from a lack of maintenance etc. Most bridges in Belgium are 40 years old and plus. Maintaining those allows to extend their service life and reduce the carbon impact of their structures.
Theodor Heuss Bridge, Germany, 2024
In 2024, EUROBRIDGE organized a site visit in Germany, to the Theodor Heuss Bridge, pre-stressed concrete beam road bridge built in 1969, in Essen. This bridge carries the A44 motorway across the river Ruhr and an adjoining railway line. In 2017, Autobahn studied the bridge’s conditions and revealed it needed urgent care (they grated it 2.5 – in a grading system assessing durability, safety, traffic, and where 1 is the best and 4 the lowest). The contractor Eurovia has been appointed to carry out the 4.6 million EUR project. Thanks to the rehabilitation works, Autobahn hopes to extend its life until 2037, “deferring an estimated cost of at least €30-40 million (US$32.2-$43 million) for its wholesale demolition and replacement” (cf. A critical moment for Germany’s bridges – Construction Briefing).
Let's get down to business!
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