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Can we recognize you in a few When did you participate in the You have completed the mounting
words? Please would you tell Nurol Group? of the largest part of the Izmit
Bay Crossing Southern Access
us your education and business Viaduct as a part of the Gebze-
life thereafter? In October 2012, I joined the Nurol Group by Izmir Motorway Project. Could
getting the tender of the South Approach you give us some information
Cengiz F. GÜMÜŞDAĞ, Project Manager, I was Viaduct within the scope of the Gebze - about the viaduct?
born in 1975 in Ankara. After completing Orhangazi - İzmir Motorway Project.
the elementary education and high school The Southern Access Viaduct which connects the
in Ankara, I have completed my License Before our questions about crossing to land, is approximately 1.4 kilometres
Education in Gazi University, Mechanical Viaduct, what will you tell about long. It consists of a one thousand four-hundred
Engineer Department. the Gebze - İzmir Motorway metre solid steel deck which sits upon 11 steel

I’ve started my business life of the mechanical Project that is the one of the piers between the two concrete abutments
on either side. By solid we mean that it was
design of industrial facilities, I found the chance Turkey’s and world’s largest made without bolts, only by welding, and it is a
to get experience in various fields such as project? single piece. The main steel structure weighs 32
planning, procurement, R & D, manufacturing, thousand 500 tonnes and connects the bridge
and rection. With residence abroad on three The Gebze - Orhangazi - İzmir Motorway deck at 60 metres high with the motorway deck
continents almost five years, I took charge Project is the largest infrastructure Project at 11 metres high.
17 years, ten years of which in international in the budgetary standpoint, of the world
projects. I’m working as the Project Manager, and is a good example for Turkey, with the What can you say as regard
from the Project of the Natural Gas Combined Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Model and the with the structural design
Cycle Co-Generation Power Plant built in Izmit Bay Crossing Bridge is the heart of this of the viaduct? Would you
Macedonia in 2009 until now. Project. mention about its sizes and the
By being the persons who spent the last three construction techniques?
years of our lives in the region, we found the
chance to live life in order to find out how that Our design criteria has been made based on
project is necessary for the region. three earthquake possibility. It is calculated

By means of two 252 meter high towers,
erected with a distance of 1.550 meter apart
from each other inside the sea, that bridge is
the largest 4th bridge of the world, and the
largest bridge of the Europe. That is 4.5 km
long with its viaducts, ground to ground.

In fact as another perspective, that is the
realization of a 35 years long dream of which
preliminary draft work has been done, to
begin with, at the end of the 70s at the same
location and then it might not realized due
to the insufficiency of the technology that is
able to overcome the seismic requirements of
the region or due to financial inadequacy.
Cengiz F. GÜMÜŞDAĞ, Project Manager
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