How to calculate the emissions impact of a bridge The viaduct's architect, Lord Norman Foster, estimates its annual CO₂ emissions savings from heavy goods vehicles alone at 40,000 tons.The ...

Those are the words of Michel Virlogeux, the structural brains behind the Millau Viaduct, but they sum up the achievement of a project that did more than bridge a valley it remade the very ...

A French bridge has been retaining the title of "tallest in the world" for two decades. The Millau Viaduct is the multi-span cable-stayed bridge completed in 2004 that crosses the gorge valley on ...