Inside ¥13B Huangmaohai Bridge: How China Built Two 720m Spans Across Typhoon Seas (Full Process)
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Inside ¥13B Huangmaohai Bridge: How China Built Two 720m Spans Across Typhoon Seas (Full Process)
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China’s Huangmaohai Bridge carries two enormous 720-meter main spans across typhoon-exposed coastal waters in Guangdong.
From deep marine foundations to 250-meter-class towers, giant steel-deck lifts, stay cables, precision closure and load testing, this documentary follows the full construction process.
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Have you ever wondered how engineers build a three-tower cable-stayed bridge when strong coastal winds, marine navigation and extreme weather can interrupt construction at any moment?
The Huangmaohai Bridge forms the centerpiece of the Huangmaohai Cross-Sea Passage in Guangdong, China. Its unusual three-tower configuration creates two consecutive 720-meter main spans, requiring the central tower to control enormous structural forces from both directions.
The wider crossing was built to improve connections between Zhuhai, Jiangmen and western Guangdong, helping reduce the Zhuhai–Jiangmen journey from more than an hour to around thirty minutes.
From offshore surveying and pile foundations to tower construction, steel fabrication, marine lifting, cable stressing, final closure, paving and load testing, this documentary follows the construction journey step by step.
What you will see in this video:
✅ How engineers surveyed the coastal alignment and investigated the seabed
✅ How 164 main-tower foundation piles were constructed across the project’s two major bridges
✅ How massive pile caps transformed deep foundations into tower bases
✅ How hydraulic climbing formwork raised the concrete pylons above the sea
✅ How engineers designed the bridge to resist powerful coastal winds
✅ How giant floating cranes lifted roughly 355-tonne steel-box segments from barges
✅ How stay cables and deck cranes advanced the two long spans in balanced stages
✅ How typhoons repeatedly forced crews to secure equipment and suspend exposed operations
✅ How millimeter-level alignment, paving and load testing prepared the crossing for service
Building above open coastal water meant confronting wind, waves, changing weather, navigation traffic and the difficulty of positioning massive steel components with extreme precision. During Super Typhoon Saola in 2023, offshore work was stopped and exposed crews were evacuated before construction could safely resume.
The final payoff is the transformation from isolated offshore foundations and unfinished towers into a continuous cross-sea transportation corridor opened to traffic in December 2024.
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