Abstract
The Sunniberg Bridge close to the village of Klosters, Switzerland, was completed in 1998 and commissioned in 2005, after having served as an access to the adjacent tunnel construction site. It has gained worldwide recognition as a symbol for technical excellence and a representative of new bridge types. The successors of the designer and the owner representative at that time retell the history of authorship, design, planning, execution, commissioning and recognition from an outsider’s perspective and assess the structural behaviour in the first ten years. The impacts of the bridge on the development of bridge types, on the prestige of the various parties involved and the influence and the perception of erection costs are assessed. Finally, some issues of durability and maintenance that will occupy the responsible authorities in future are mentioned.
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