Sacyr : will upgrade the Atlantic Toll Road (AP-9) for 14 million euros

30/11/2015

Sacyr, by means of its subsidiary Valoriza Conservación de Infraestructuras, will upgrade the pavement of the Atlantic Toll Road (AP 9) between Santiago Sur (kp 75) and Pontevedra Sur (kp 132,5) for the amount of 14 million euros.

Valoriza Conservación de Infraestructuras will undertake this upgrade while applying its detailed knowledge of this infrastructure, which it has been conserving and maintaining for 10 years. Consequently, according to this new contract it will upgrade all the infrastructures, interchanges, and toll areas of this 57.46-km section. The work includes milling and replacement of the pavement of the right-hand lane on sections where it is worn, raising the shoulders until they are flush with the current roadbed, and renovating the surface of the entire width of the roadbed and shoulders by spreading a 3-cm thick layer of asphalt. The paving will require laying over 150,000 tons of asphalt mix.

On viaducts, 3 cm will be milled as a prior operation to prevent increasing the gravity loads on the structures, and the expansion joints of the structures will be replaced. In addition, over 5000 linear meters of new parapet will be installed on the structures. Ramps of the interchanges included within the scope of the project will be repaved by milling and then spreading a 5-cm thick surface course, and the roadbed will be placed at toll areas.

With this new contract, Valoriza Conservación de Infraestructuras consolidates itself as one of the leading companies in the conservation sector in Spain, where it maintains more than 6,000 kilometers of pavement for expressways, highways and conventional roads. In addition, in Chile it provides the conservation of another 850 kilometers of expressways and highways.