Batangas-Mindoro Super Bridge

A 14km floating expressway bridge linking from Batangas City to Mindoro that is owned by SMC Infrastructure
It is one of the Pipeline and Wish-list projects of the BBB program of BBM administration
It will be a floating cable stayed bridge that links from Batangas City to the famous beach tourist site of Puerto Galera, Mindoro
The main bridge will link from Lobo, Batangas to Isla Verde, to Puerto Galera, Occidental Mindoro
While the link to Star Tollway will be through elevated expressway constructed by SMC Infrastructure that links Star Tollway to this bridge through a elevated rampway near Batangas City Exit
During construction of this bridge, it will use 3D Printer, as well as some construction robots to lessen labor costs for this project as the Philippines population is now aging, as well as labor getting more expensive due to yearly minimum wage increases
It will be a PPP Project in which local, and foreign companies (since FDI is opened), and governments of Batangas, and Mindoro Occidental will collaborate, and cooperate to build this bridge
It will have an interchange and tunnel at Island Verde like San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, to boost tourism industry in this island
It will have 2 main channel bridge, with 2 towers, with one north of Verde Island, and another one south of Verde Island
With bridge tower heights of 250m, and 180m, respectively, main spans of 700m, and 400m respectively, and with a deck height of 65-70m, and 45m, respectively
By this year, the simultaneous feasibility studies, and detailed engineering will start, unlike the Bataan-Cavite Interlink Bridge, which took 3 years to complete this, while this bridge will take only 1 1/2 to 2 years to complete this
And by 2024, after the feasibility and detailed engineering is completed, the construction will start, and the groundbreaking ceremony will be held as well, that includes installing its first crane days after groundbreaking
During the construction stages, it will create thousands of new jobs for unskilled workers, skilled workers, and engineers, for all Filipinos
And the construction of this bridge is expected to take 5 years, in which it will be completed by the year 2029
If there is a labor shortage, or high costs of labor, this project will use lots of robots for construction, instead, making the first bridge in the world to be built entirely with robots from different companies
Also, on the bridge segments outside of its main cable stayed segment, it will use also prefab or 3D printed bridge deck girders just like Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge did it to fast track its construction
And it will be also an iconic tourist sites because this bridge will have an iconic, and unique design, and it is also an walkable, and bikeable, bridge, but you still pay toll fee
Category:Future Bridges
Category:Proposed Bridges