Dear Readers
This issue of our magazine is focused on arch bridges. We present here three unique bridges:
Almonte River Viaduct (Spain) - the longest railway arch bridge in the world – and Tagus River Viaduct
(Spain) – both bridges are part of Madrid – Portuguese border HSR link.
River Irwell Network Arch Bridge (UK) – the first network arch railway bridge in the United Kingdom.
We very much thank to all authors for their contributions, time and excellent cooperation. Let me say
that I very much respect and admire you all.
We would also like to congratulate Mr Héctor Beade Pereda, Lead
Designer of the Almonte Viaduct, who was awarded the IABSE Prize
2016, “in recognition of his contribution to the design of bridges
improving the quality of the built environment, thanks to an
enthusiastic and rigorous, aesthetically and structurally holistic
approach to bridge design”.
Our magazine has developed since last issue a bit. We have new
members of our Editorial Board: Let me welcome Mr Richard Cooke
(UK), Mr David Collings (UK) and Mr Peter Paulík (Slovak Republic).
September issue had more than a thousand views in first days after it was released. It is open access
and I hope we will be able to keep to this policy in the future. We have started search for partners who
could help us and support us.
From December our magazine is solely in English. We bring original articles about bridges from the
whole world, all our colleagues can speak English and we have thousands of readers worldwide. So
instead of spending time and money on translations into Czech we will rather focus on higher quality
and content of the whole magazine.
We were a medial patron of the 8th International Conference on Arch Bridges. We
are very happy that we were given the opportunity to support the conference and
promote our magazine as well, and we hope for further cooperation in the future.
Thank you all for your cooperation on this issue, especially to Mr Richard Cooke and Mr David Collings,
to whom I very much thank for review of the articles and for all their assistance and support.
Magdaléna Sobotková
Chief Editor
4/2016