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Savines bridge (1954) - Works underway at Serre-Ponçon

The Savines bridge, over the Serre-Ponçon reservoir in the Hautes-Alpes department, was built in just twenty months, from 1958 to 1960. Building the bridge, which is 924 metres long, involved installing twelve separate elements, which each consisted in a pile constructed using sliding formwork and no fixed scaffolding (each pile being of a different height), and two brackets built by cantilevering, one voussoir at a time.