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Nordhordland Bridge, the Glossary

The Nordhordland Bridge (Nordhordlandsbrua) is a combined cable-stayed and pontoon bridge which crosses Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset (in Bergen Municipality) and the island of Flatøy (in Alver Municipality) in Vestland county, Norway.^[1]

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Bridges completed in 1994
Cable-stayed bridges in Norway
European route E39 in Norway
Former toll bridges in Norway
Pontoon bridges
Road bridges in Bergen
Road bridges in Vestland

Aas-Jakobsen

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Alver (municipality)

Alver is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway.

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Alversund Bridge

The Alversund Bridge (Alversund bru) is a suspension bridge spanning the Alverstraumen, a narrow strait between the island of Radøy and the mainland in the village of Alversund in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Alversund Bridge are Alver (municipality), former toll bridges in Norway and road bridges in Vestland.

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Annual average daily traffic

Annual average daily traffic, abbreviated AADT, is a measure used primarily in transportation planning, transportation engineering and retail location selection.

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Åsane

Åsane is a borough of the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway.

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Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway.

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Bergens Tidende

is Norway's fifth-largest newspaper, and the country's largest newspaper outside Oslo.

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Bergensavisen

Bergensavisen (lit. "the Bergen newspaper"), usually shortened to BA, is the second largest newspaper in Bergen, Norway.

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Bergsøysund Bridge

The Bergsøysund Bridge (Bergsøysundbrua) is a pontoon bridge that crosses the Bergsøysundet strait between the islands of Aspøya (in Tingvoll) and Bergsøya (in Gjemnes) in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Bergsøysund Bridge are European route E39 in Norway and pontoon bridges.

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Borgarting Court of Appeal

The Borgarting Court of Appeal (Borgarting lagmannsrett) is one of six intermediate courts of appeal in the Kingdom of Norway.

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Box girder bridge

A box girder bridge, or box section bridge, is a bridge in which the main beams comprise girders in the shape of a hollow box.

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Bulkhead (partition)

A bulkhead is an upright wall within the hull of a ship, within the fuselage of an airplane, or a car.

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Bus station

A bus station or a bus interchange is a structure where city buses or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers.

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Cable-stayed bridge

A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers (or pylons), from which cables support the bridge deck.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

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Consortium

A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal.

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DNV

Det Norske Veritas (DNV), formerly DNV GL is an international accredited registrar and classification society headquartered in Høvik, Norway.

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Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.

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Drammen Bridge

The Drammen Bridge (Drammensbrua) is a motorway box girder bridge that crosses Drammenselva river in the town of Drammen in Norway.

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Dynamic scoring

Dynamic scoring is a forecasting technique for government revenues, expenditures, and budget deficits that incorporates predictions about the behavior of people and organizations based on changes in fiscal policy, usually tax rates.

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European route E39

European route E39 is the designation of a north–south road in Norway and Denmark from Klett, just south of Trondheim, to Aalborg via Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand.

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Evergreen Point Floating Bridge

The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the 520 Bridge and officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, carries Washington State Route 520 across Lake Washington from Seattle to its eastern suburbs.

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Flatøy

Flatøy is an island in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Flatøy are Alver (municipality).

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Float (nautical)

Floats (also called pontoons) are airtight hollow structures, similar to pressure vessels, designed to provide buoyancy in water.

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Fredrikstad

Fredrikstad (previously Frederiksstad; literally "Fredrik's Town") is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway.

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Frekhaug

Frekhaug is a village in Alver Municipality, located in Vestland county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Frekhaug are Alver (municipality).

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Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

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Gulating Court of Appeal

The Gulating Court of Appeal (Gulating lagmannsrett) is one of six courts of appeal in the Kingdom of Norway.

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Hagelsund Bridge

The Hagelsund Bridge (Hagelsundbrua) is a suspension bridge in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Hagelsund Bridge are Alver (municipality), European route E39 in Norway, former toll bridges in Norway and road bridges in Vestland.

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Harald V

Harald V (Harald den femte,; born 21 February 1937) is King of Norway.

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Høyer-Ellefsen

Høyer-Ellefsen A/S was a Norwegian company.

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High-strength low-alloy steel

High-strength low-alloy steel (HSLA) is a type of alloy steel that provides better mechanical properties or greater resistance to corrosion than carbon steel.

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Hobart Bridge

The Hobart Bridge was a floating arch bridge that crossed the River Derwent, connecting the eastern and western shores of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Nordhordland Bridge and Hobart Bridge are pontoon bridges.

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Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge

The Third Lake Washington Bridge, officially the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, is a floating bridge in the Seattle metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Washington.

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Hood Canal Bridge

The Hood Canal Bridge (officially William A. Bugge Bridge) is a floating bridge in the northwest United States, located in western Washington.

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Isdalstø

Isdalstø or Isdalsstø is a village in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Isdalstø are Alver (municipality).

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ITromsø

iTromsø (formerly Bladet Tromsø) is a daily (save for Sunday) newspaper published in Tromsø, Norway.

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Klauvaneset

Klauvaneset is a small peninsula in the northern part of Åsane in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway.

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Knarvik

Knarvik (or Knarrviki) is the administrative centre of the municipality of Alver in Vestland county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Knarvik are Alver (municipality).

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Krossnessundet Bridge

The Krossnessundet Bridge (Krossnessundet bru) is a cantilever bridge in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Krossnessundet Bridge are Alver (municipality) and road bridges in Vestland.

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Kværner

Kværner was a Norwegian engineering and construction services company that existed between 1853 and 2005.

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Leif J. Sverdrup

Leif Johan Sverdrup CBE (11 January 1898 – 2 January 1976) was a Norwegian-born American civil engineer and general with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the first half of the 20th century.

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Lonevågen

Lonevågen is a small fjord arm flowing south off of the Osterfjorden in Vestland county, Norway.

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Mongstad

Mongstad is an industrial site in Vestland county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Mongstad are Alver (municipality).

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Moss

Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.

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Moveable bridge

A moveable bridge, or movable bridge, is a bridge that moves to allow passage for boats or barges.

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Nordhordland

Nordhordland is a traditional district in the western part of Norway.

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Nordhordland (newspaper)

Nordhordland is a newspaper published in Knarvik, Norway, and covers the district of Nordhordland.

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Nordhordland District Court

Nordhordland District Court (Nordhordland tingrett) was a district court in Norway serving the Nordhordland and Midhordland (except for the city of Bergen) in Hordaland county, as well as Gulen Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Norwegian Contractors

Norwegian Contractors AS was a concrete gravity base (GBS) structure supplier from 1974 to 1994.

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Norwegian Public Roads Administration

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens vegvesen) is a Norwegian government agency responsible for national and county public roads in Norway.

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Nyborg Tunnel

The Nyborg Tunnel is a proposed long road tunnel between Åsane and Klauvaneset in the city-municipality of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Nyborg Tunnel are European route E39 in Norway.

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Orthotropic deck

An orthotropic bridge or orthotropic deck is typically one whose fabricated deck consists of a structural steel deck plate stiffened either longitudinally with ribs or transversely, or in both directions.

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Oslo District Court

Oslo District Court (Oslo tingrett) is a district court located in Oslo, Norway.

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Osterfjorden

Osterfjorden is a fjord in Vestland county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Osterfjorden are Alver (municipality).

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Plaintiff

A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.

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Pontoon bridge

A pontoon bridge (or ponton bridge), also known as a floating bridge, uses floats or shallow-draft boats to support a continuous deck for pedestrian and vehicle travel. Nordhordland Bridge and pontoon bridge are pontoon bridges.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Radar beacon

Radar beacon (short: racon) is – according to article 1.103 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) – defined as "A transmitter-receiver associated with a fixed navigational mark which, when triggered by a radar, automatically returns a distinctive signal which can appear on the display of the triggering radar, providing range, bearing and identification information." Each station (transmitter-receiver, transceiver or transponder) shall be classified by the service in which it operates permanently or temporarily.

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Refinery

A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.

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Romerikes Blad

is a local newspaper published in Lillestrøm, Norway.

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Salhus, Vestland

Salhus is an urban settlement in the borough of Åsane in Bergen municipality, Vestland county, Norway.

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Salhusfjorden

Salhusfjorden is a long fjord and sound between Bergen Municipality and Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Nordhordland Bridge and Salhusfjorden are Alver (municipality).

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Skagerrak

The Skagerrak is a strait running between the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, the east coast of Norway and the west coast of Sweden, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea.

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Skew lines

In three-dimensional geometry, skew lines are two lines that do not intersect and are not parallel.

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Sognefjord

The Sognefjord or Sognefjorden (Sogn Fjord), nicknamed the King of the Fjords (Fjordenes konge), is the largest and deepest fjord in Norway.

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Span (engineering)

In engineering, span is the distance between two adjacent structural supports (e.g., two piers) of a structural member (e.g., a beam).

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Standing Committee on Transport and Communications

The Standing Committee on Transport and Communications (Transport- og kommunikasjonskomiteen) is a standing committee of the Parliament of Norway.

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Storting

The Storting (Stortinget) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway.

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Structurae

Structurae is an online database containing pictures and information about structural and civil engineering works, and their associated engineers, architects, and builders.

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Structural engineering

Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and joints' that create the form and shape of human-made structures.

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Submerged floating tunnel

A submerged floating tunnel (SFT), also known as submerged floating tube bridge (SFTB), suspended tunnel, or Archimedes bridge, is a proposed design for a tunnel that floats in water, supported by its buoyancy (specifically, by employing the hydrostatic thrust, or Archimedes' principle).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordhordland_Bridge

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Nordhordland Bridge, the Glossary

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See also

Bridges completed in 1994

Cable-stayed bridges in Norway

European route E39 in Norway

Former toll bridges in Norway

Pontoon bridges

Road bridges in Bergen

Road bridges in Vestland

References