Viaduct van Remouchamps, Road viaduct in Sougné-Remouchamps, Aywaille, Belgium.
The Remouchamps Viaduct is a 939-metre road viaduct on the A26/E25, crossing the Amblève valley on eleven piers with spans from 39.35 to 117 metres. Its steel box girders, 5.10 metres deep, carry a 27.30-metre-wide reinforced concrete deck about 80 metres above the river. Below it, the older stone railway viaduct of the same name crosses the Amblève at a much lower level.
Built in 1980 for the A26/E25 motorway, the viaduct was designed by the engineering office of René Greisch. The same methods and techniques used in its study were later applied to the Millau Viaduct. In 2009 the Walloon Region added safety barriers after 130 suicides had occurred over the previous thirty years.
The viaduct is used daily by travelers crossing the Amblève valley and has become part of the region's visual identity. It demonstrates how modern engineering became woven into the landscape people pass through regularly.
The viaduct is easily accessible from the A26 highway and offers good views from several vantage points along the valley. Visitors can get the best perspective from the valley floor or nearby paths that show the structure from different angles.
The engineer René Greisch, whose office designed the viaduct, later applied the same methods and techniques to the Millau Viaduct in France. The deck is 27.30 metres wide and rests on box girders of steel 5.10 metres deep, carried by eleven piers.
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