Facts and Figures on the Forth replacement crossing

£1.6bn total cost of project

By The Newsroom

Published 17th Mar 2012, 03:56 BST

£790m main contract

£25m upgrading M9 jct 1a

£13m Fife traffic control

207m height of towers

156m height of Forth Road Bridge towers

4.5m height of Beamer Rock reduced

149 sections of bridge deck

384 current workforce

1,200 peak workforce

112 posts for trainees and unemployed

222 Scots firms with sub-contracts