Queensferry Crossing City Edinburgh Country United Kingdom Client Transport Scotland Construction period 2011 - 2017 As leader of a consortium, HOCHTIEF Solutions built the approximately 2.7-kilometer-long cable-stayed bridge— dubbed “Queensferry Crossing” by the public—over the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh in Scotland. Including the necessary connecting structures, almost seven kilometers of road infrastructure were created here between 2011 and 2017. The bridge features a cutting-edge wind shielding system to protect traffic even in high winds. HOCHTIEF thus built one of the largest infrastructure projects in Europe and one of the world’s longest cablestayed bridges—and demonstrated how cost-effectively it works even on technically sophisticated, large-scale projects. As early as

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