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The Infinity Bridge is a public pedestrian and cycle footbridge across the River Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in the north-east of England. The bridge is situated one kilometre downriver of Stockton town centre, between the Princess of Wales Bridge and the Tees Barrage and it links the Teesdale Business Park and the University of Durham's Queen's Campus in Thornaby-on-Tees on the south bank of the Tees with the Tees Valley Regeneration's £320 million North Shore development on the north bank. Built at a cost of £15 million with funding from Stockton Borough Council, English Partnerships and its successor body the Homes and Communities Agency, One NorthEast, and the European Regional Development Fund the bridge is a major part of the North Shore Redevelopment Project undertaken by Tees Valley Regeneration. The bridge had the project title ''North Shore Footbridge'' before being given its official name ''Infinity Bridge'', chosen by a panel made from the funding bodies, using names suggested by the public. The name derives from the infinity symbol formed by the bridge and its reflection.〔 == Design == Initial investigations for the footbridge were done by the White Young Green Group who with English Partnerships produced a brief for an international architectural design competition organised with RIBA Competitions〔〔 and launched in April 2003. The brief was for a "prestigious" and "iconic" "landmark" footbridge at North Shore Stockton, to cross the River Tees which is 125 m wide at that point. There were more than 200 entries to the RIBA Competition but this was slimmed down to a shortlist of five. The successful competition design was by Expedition Engineering and Spence Associates.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Building Design News )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=The Footbridge at North Shore )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=The Institution of Structural Engineers )〕 The subsequent design was led by Expedition Engineering assisted by〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Infinity Bridge, Stockton-on-Tees )〕 Arup Materials, Balfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering, Black and Veatch, Bridon, Cambridge University, Cleveland Bridge UK,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=North Shore Footbridge )〕 Dorman Long Technology,〔 Flint & Neill, Formfab, GCG, GERB, Imperial College, RWDI, Spence Associates, Speirs & Major, Stainton, and William Cook while White Young Green were project managers. English Partnerships appointed Flint & Neill Limited to carry out a category III independent check of the bridge design including loading, wind tunnel testing, and investigation of failure modes, a number of aspects of which fall outside current standards.〔 The bridge has a 120-year design life.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Infinity Bridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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