WATCH | Liebherr cranes execute tandem lift for German bridge

Mitchell Keller Managing Editor, American Cranes & Transport

10 September 2026

German crane and transport specialist Wiesbauer completed a series of precision tandem lifts to install steel reinforcement plates on the Hochbrücke Horb, a new 667-metre bridge carrying the B32 federal highway over the River Neckar near Horb, Germany.

Commissioned by the Karlsruhe Regional Council, the bridge uses an extradosed design by combining elements of cable-stayed and prestressed

concrete construction with continuous steel plates fastened to the underside of the two carriageway decks using thousands of anchor bolts.

Rather than welding the plates section by section on the bridge,…

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