Malabadi Bridge is a bridge with 7 meters width and 150 meters length and was built in Silvan District in Diyarbakır in 1147 during the Artuqids era. Its height from water level to keystone is 19 meters. Malabadi Bridge is the bridge that has the widest arch among stone-made bridges in the world.
People still admire this work of art as it was built with this span at a time when there was no modern static calculation. Also, according to the travel book of Evliya Çelebi, the dome of Hagia Sophia can pass through the bridge easily and there is no such an old bridge that has this span in the Balkans, Turkey and Middle East.
Our Company prepared and installed the steel construction scaffold system of this historical bridge under the restoration projects. The construction technique of the system was made as normal and conventional, but the entire steel construction was floated over Batman Creek as an installation technique and was completed by utilizing the buoyancy of water by opening and closing the gates of Batman Dam. In this project, approximately 400 tons of steel were used, and no crane was used in any process of installation, which is one of the most remarkable aspects of project construction works.
