November 2023 – The pyramidion of the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge lifted today .
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November 2023 – The iconic Kangaroo Point Green Bridge is taking shape!. The 95-metre-high bridge mast is being lifted into position piece by piece and once complete will stand 20 metres taller than the Story Bridge. The mast will sit atop the uniquely designed main pier, which will accommodate a large viewing platform with seating and shade for residents and visitors to enjoy panoramic views once the bridge opens. More than 280 metres of the bridge deck has also now been built across the Brisbane River, using a tower crane to install some of the steel bridge spans.
Learn more about the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge: https://lnkd.in/gq2VAU_d
October 2023 – The lower legs have now been installed and the structure is nearly ready for upper leg day. Once complete, the bridge will deliver a direct link between the CBD and Kangaroo Point which has been talked about since the 1800s, and will help take 84,000 cars off our roads each year.
September 2023 – Source Over 240m of the much-anticipated Kangaroo Point Green Bridge now stretches across the Brisbane River, as the installation of the bridge mast has begun.
Did you know?
- The idea of a bridge connecting Kangaroo Point to the CBD dates back to the 1800s.
- This bridge aims to reduce a whopping 84,000 cars from the roads annually, offering a direct route from Kangaroo Point into the heart of the CBD.
- The construction boasts use of the world’s largest lifting capacity tower crane.Cr Ryan Murphy said the bridge will become a “key link” for citizens across the city. “With more and more major events coming to Brisbane, including the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge will become a destination for tourists and a key link for people travelling to the CBD and the Gabba stadium,” Cr Murphy said.”Brisbane is Australia’s fastest growing capital city and it’s important we deliver the transport infrastructure we need to keep people moving.”
Once completed the bridge will be one of the world’s longest cable-stayed bridges for pedestrians and cyclists, spanning 460m.
By 2036, it’s estimated that over 6,000 pedestrians, cyclists, and e-mobility riders will use the bridge daily.
The Kangaroo Point Green Bridge is set to be completed in 2024. 
September 2023 – Kangaroo Point Green Bridge construction site in time to see the Cruciform get lifted into place by the team at Beenleigh Steel Fabrications. This project has been an eye opener to be involved in and experience all the different stages from concept to design, fabrication to paint at Tranzblast Coating Services, then movement to site, and now on site to see the logistics involved in moving a piece like this into place. I am excited to see the bridge opened when it’s finished, still buzzing to be supplying paint on this iconic project with Dulux Protective Coatings
September 2023 / Source – The first 2 x lower mast legs for the Kangaroo Point Bridge arrived this morning via barge. They had an early start, leaving the Port of Brisbane at 5.30am and arriving by 8.00am on site. Congratulations to Mark Baker and the team at BESIX Watpac for another huge milestone on this transformative project for Brisbane.
How’s that for a leg up? 😁 Adrian Schrinner
April 2023 – Source – protective coatings applications and inspections on the new Kangaroo Point Green Bridge on the Brisbane River hashtagKangarooPoint hashtagGreenBridge hashtagNACE hashtagRobertsonCoatings hashtagDulux hashtagProtectiveCoatings hashtagCoatingInspector hashtagCoatingInspection hashtagStructuralSteelBridges hashtagBSF hashtagBrisbane hashtagIndustrialProjects
March 2023 – installation of another four bridge modules at Kangaroo Point in the space of 3 days in March, the BSF team are planning on installing more modules over the Brisbane River over the coming months as part of Brisbane City Council’s Green Bridge program.
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February 2023 – The Kangaroo Point Green Bridge has recently achieved a major milestone with the installation of the first span of the bridge structure, the first of 8 spans to be installed for the 460m long bridge with the mast reaching 83m in height. The Kangaroo Point Green Bridge will be an iconic cyclist and pedestrian cable-stay bridge featuring a main span of about 180m, to be built for Brisbane City Council in the heart of the city CBD and over the Brisbane River, with complex engineering and architectural features. Rizzani de Eccher is involved as part of the Connect Brisbane consortium (led by BESIX Watpac ) as an integrated part of the team to deliver the engineering and construction of the project. TENSA – Your Challenges, Our Solutions is also involved as the specialised supplier for cable-stays and tuned mass damper.
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February 2023 – The MEGAFRAME is now in place on the Kangaroo Point Green bridge, allowing the bespoke ‘flower’ formwork to begin on the main pier. It’s a temporary work platform coming in at 120 tonnes and measures 25m across. It provides safe access to construct the bridge’s main pier. Once the formwork is in place, reinforced steel will be installed and the pier concreted over to support the viewing platform at the mast.
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January 2023 – Source – Rising high over the Brisbane River is the world’s largest lifting capacity tower crane at the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge site. The crane’s arrival marks a ramp up in construction and will be lifting some of the heaviest elements, with the heaviest lift being 180 tonnes for the 28-metre-tall prefabricated steel masthead – the centrepiece of the bridge.
This impressive crane will soon be named by a local Brisbane school student.
November 2022 – Pictures of some of the first components on the new Brisbane City Council Kangaroo Point Green Bridge getting ready to leave Beenleigh Steel Fabrications yard to be blasted and painted at Tranzblast Aust with Dulux Protective Coatings 3 coat system, before being moved again to the port of Brisbane where BESIX Watpac will work with Beenleigh Steel Fabrications to float them up the Brisbane river and lift them into place. It’s easy to miss all the planning and logistical back work that goes into a job like this, check out Beenleigh Steel Fabrications page for some cool drone footage of what’s required to move steel this size from the different locations.
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