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More than 300 metres above Turkey's Dardenelles Strait, an Australian craning company has pulled off a spectacular world-first.
Working in a dangerous earthquake zone, the team completed the crucial stage of a history-making bridge build, with an incredible record lift.
"What we've really done is we've revolutionised the way that bridges can be constructed globally," The Men From Marr's Simon Marr told 9News.
The pillars will eventually support the world's longest suspension bridge, linking the European and Asian sides of Turkey.
When completed the bridge will be more than 4600 metres long and will turn a 90-minute ferry ride into a six-minute drive.
Mr Marr's Sydney-based craning company was hired to assemble the bridge's towers.
They had no idea just how difficult the job would be – the worksite is in an earthquake zone and the coronavirus pandemic forced all workers to be cut off from the outside world.
"We've had a number of them occur whilst we've been on site," he said.
"They're in a special hotel that's been cleaned. It's an isolation zone. And then they get taken from the hotel each day to the worksite to perform their work."
But persistence paid off and the Australians now have a new world record.
"The actual height of the bridge tower is about 10 metres higher than Sydney Tower and the weight we've actually managed to put up there is equivalent to 14 city buses," he said.
"There were people saying it was impossible to do and we've achieved it and I just think that's fantastic."
The bridge is named 1915 after Turkey's World War 1 victory at Cannakale and is expected to be finished in 2022.
The project's developers say the megastructure, located close to the shores of Gallipoli, will forever connect two countries, once at war.
"What ever the past is, we are now friends. We are now working together. We are business partners, supporting each other. We are now holding each other's hands," 1915 Bridge chief executive Mustafa Tanriverdi told 9News.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/aust...n-turkey/2e1225df-21a6-4bfa-8683-f87f16c2b2cf
Working in a dangerous earthquake zone, the team completed the crucial stage of a history-making bridge build, with an incredible record lift.
"What we've really done is we've revolutionised the way that bridges can be constructed globally," The Men From Marr's Simon Marr told 9News.
The pillars will eventually support the world's longest suspension bridge, linking the European and Asian sides of Turkey.
When completed the bridge will be more than 4600 metres long and will turn a 90-minute ferry ride into a six-minute drive.
Mr Marr's Sydney-based craning company was hired to assemble the bridge's towers.
They had no idea just how difficult the job would be – the worksite is in an earthquake zone and the coronavirus pandemic forced all workers to be cut off from the outside world.
"We've had a number of them occur whilst we've been on site," he said.
"They're in a special hotel that's been cleaned. It's an isolation zone. And then they get taken from the hotel each day to the worksite to perform their work."
But persistence paid off and the Australians now have a new world record.
"The actual height of the bridge tower is about 10 metres higher than Sydney Tower and the weight we've actually managed to put up there is equivalent to 14 city buses," he said.
"There were people saying it was impossible to do and we've achieved it and I just think that's fantastic."
The bridge is named 1915 after Turkey's World War 1 victory at Cannakale and is expected to be finished in 2022.
The project's developers say the megastructure, located close to the shores of Gallipoli, will forever connect two countries, once at war.
"What ever the past is, we are now friends. We are now working together. We are business partners, supporting each other. We are now holding each other's hands," 1915 Bridge chief executive Mustafa Tanriverdi told 9News.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/aust...n-turkey/2e1225df-21a6-4bfa-8683-f87f16c2b2cf
