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Goldra Lift

• Location: Covilhã, Portugal
• Solution: Infrastructure and Transport
• Type: Urbanism, environment and public areas
• Promoter: Câmara Municipal da Covilhã
• Architecture: Arpas
• Scope: Foundations and structures, water supply and sewerage
• Project: 2011
• Construction: 2013
• Photography: Arpas
• Contractor: LIFTECH Tecnologia para Elevadores
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Part of the Covilhã City Mobility Plan, the Goldra Lift provides access for people between the top of Goldra Park and Rua Marquês D'Ávila e Bolama, next to the UBI library. The lift is 40 metres long and travels at an incline plane of 32.6º, between elevation 610.33m and 635.20m. In the event of an emergency, lift users have a safety staircase, made of reinforced concrete, on the side of the lift channel.

The connection between the two stops and the terminal is ensured by an inclined steel grid deck, forming a uniformly inclined track, supported on buttresses at the two terminals and on four intermediate supports, defining three intermediate spans of 9.30 metres and two end spans of 7.165 metres.

The terminal stops are basically the construction site's abutments. They consist of reinforced concrete vaults whose side walls, 0.26 metres thick, are embedded in the foundation. Shallow foundations were used, by footings, at the upper stop, and deep foundations, by micropiles, topped by pile caps, at the lower stop.

The intermediate supports are provided by pile caps supported on 4 micropiles, with the main beams of the deck grid resting on hollow plinths.