Dissing+Weitling selected as architects for Fehmarn Belt bridge

On March 27 – the day after a fixed link across the Fehmarn Belt between Denmark and Germany was agreed by the Danish Folketing – Femern Baelt A/S announced the two teams that have been chosen to bring the project forward: a bridge team and a tunnel team.

Dissing+Weitling in co operation with Cowi A/S (DK), Obermeyer Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner (D) and Flint & Neill Partnership (UK) make up the team tasked with exploring the technical, financial and environmental implications of building a bridge.

Exploratory work will be ongoing over the next couple of years and will form a basis for the final decision: should the fixed link over the Fehmarn Belt be a bridge or a tunnel?

The current plan is for the fixed link – one of the biggest projects of its kind in the world – to be ready in 2018.

Since being chosen – in 1988 – as architects for the Storebaelt link between Denmark’s two main islands, Dissing+Weitling has participated in more than 200 bridge projects and has steadily worked its way up into the world elite of bridge building. Current Dissing+Weitling bridge projects include the Stonecutters Bridge in

Hong Kong – a cable stayed bridge with the second longest span in the world – and the New Forth Bridge in Scotland, the most significant Scottish construction project in recent times.