Sicklauddsbron (Bridge Apaté), a stainless steel bridge that spans the Sickla Canal in the Hammarby Sjöstad area of Stockholm, has received the prestigious European Steel Design Award.
The bridge's load-bearing sections have been manufactured using high-strength duplex stainless steel hot rolled plate from AvestaPolarit Hot Rolled Plate in Degerfors. The 25mm gauge plates were first sent to AvestaPolarit PSC Nordic, also based in Degerfors, to undergo further processing, such as water cutting and bending. The joint preparation and welding preparations were also handled by PSC Nordic. The finished components for the bridge were then put together by Stålmonteringar AB Stålab, located in Trollhättan.
The award ceremony took place in Lucerne in Switzerland on 17 September.
The prize is awarded every other year to the most innovative steel constructions in Europe. The award was set up in order to encourage the creative use of steel in architecture and structural design. Bridge Apaté was nominated for the European Steel Design Award by the Swedish Institute of Steel Construction (Stålbyggnadsinstitutet) after receiving national recognition in the form of the Steel Design Award (Stålbyggnadspriset) 2003.
At the institute's annual meeting in May earlier this year, Bridge Apaté was awarded the Swedish Steel Design Award 2003 for the most innovative steel construction in Sweden in the past three years. The achievement was won in the face of some stiff competition from the COOP Arena (formerly the Dolphin) in Luleå and Pier F at Arlanda Airport.
The Steel Design Award was founded to encourage the use of steel in constructions and to generate new ideas and inspirational solutions. The prize was awarded for the first time this year. The award ceremony is due to take place in Gothenburg on Steel Construction Day, 16 October.
AvestaPolarit's Hot Rolled Plate business unit in Degerfors is the world's largest producer of stainless steel hot rolled individual plate. AvestaPolarit PSC Nordic in Degerfors is the Nordic region's leading plate service centre for plate processing. PSC Nordic specialises in value-added processes such as water cutting, plasma cutting and bending.
Fact file, Bridge Apaté (Sicklauddsbron)
Owner: The City of Stockholm.
Architects: Magnus Ståhl, Erik Andersson and Jelena Mijanovic.
Design engineer: Scandiaconsult AB Luleå.
Steel contractor: Stålmonteringar AB Stålab, Trollhättan, Sweden.
Award ceremony in Luzern. From left Kurt W. Meyer, ECCS President, Peter Collin, Scandiaconsult AB, Jelena Mijanovic, architect, Magnus Ståhl, architect, Erik Andersson, architect and Georges Gendebien, ECCS Secretary General.
