Moerdijk Bridge
This road bridge is just over 1 kilometre long and made largely of steel, for which it was awarded the National Steel Prize in 1980. The steel bridge elements are located on a total of nine pillars and are supported by concrete foundations. Over the years, damage has developed in these foundations, in the form of cracks and spalling.
The survey showed that the damage to the foundations was caused by a combination of frost and the penetration of chlorides (harmful substances). Solid Services proposed to manually repair the concrete damage and to protect it with a coating system to prevent the penetration of moisture and harmful substances.
Additional information
The pillars can be accessed through a corridor in the steel bridge sections. During the inspection, the sound of vehicles racing across the bridge is clearly audible. This was an unusual inspection, under one of the most important and busiest motorways in the Netherlands.