Enerpac Hydraulic System Integration for Millau Viaduct

Lifting Millau's Temporary Support Towers

Enerpac controlled hydraulic movement: lifting, launching, nose recovery, stage lifting.

All temporary support towers of the Millau Viaduct are step-by-step stage-lifted up to heights between 87 and 163 metres.

customer: Eiffage Group TP

location: Millau Viaduct, France

Hydraulic system with cylinder, pump and PLC-control unit to lift the intermediate temporary piers.

Close up of one of the four corners of the cube structure with the “toothed racks”.

On all concrete pillars and steel temporary support piers Enerpac hydraulic launching systems are installed to push the Millau deck out into space.

nose recovery system at the frontend approaches the temporary tower and will compensate height deviation during deck launching.