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THREE SECTIONS OF ROUTE 14 INAUGURATED

The PPP of Circuit 3 is fulfilling its objectives and already has three sections of Route 14 in service.

As we have been reporting in previous editions of our newsletter, Road Circuit 3 by the Espina-Copasa consortium, is in charge of the Route 14 Public-Private Participation contract.

There are about 300 km of road rehabilitation using cold recycling technology with Portland cement and a subsequent 4 cm tread with the new modified asphalt BITAFLEX PG 70-28 provided by Grupo Bitafal.

The last friday May 22nd the Minister of Transport and Public Works, Luis Alberto Heber inaugurated the first three sections between the Maciel stream, on the border between Flores and Durazno, and Route 100 (sections 10 and 11) and from kilometer 259 to Sarandí del Yí (section 14).

The sections in question were carried out within the deadlines stipulated by both the Díaz Alvarez company and the CVC company with great care and dedication, which translates into a work of very good quality.

The works carried out were widening and recharging of granular material, then cold recycling with Portland cement in 20 cm thick, then an irrigation of curing with emulsion IRRIGATION BITAFAL 65 and gravel and finally a 4 cm thick asphalt mix with modified asphalt BITAFLEX PG 70-28. For more information about the work carried out, you can enter "ADVANCES IN ROUTE 14"O en"ASPHALT PG70-28 ROUTE 14“.

The inauguration was also attended by the Minister, the National Director of Roads, Eng. Rodolfo Long, the Mayor of Durazno, Carmelo Vidalín, and the Mayor of Sarandí del Yí, Mario Pereyra, among other departmental authorities, staff from the MTOP, the consortium and of construction companies.

OVERHAUL HISTORIC ROUTE 30

The route is finishing being reconstructed in its section between Artigas and Bella Unión.

With the completion of this section, more than 250 km of intervened route from Route 5 to Route 3 in Bella Unión are completed. The recent works leave excellent connectivity for the city of Artigas, both due to the rehabilitation of the pavements and the 5 new bridges that were built in the section between Artigas and Tomás Gomensoro. The Traxpalco company is doing a great job in the widening and surcharge of the route as well as in the double interlocked treatment (DTT) with emulsion IRRIGATION BITAFLEX 65 P40.

Traxpalco is carrying out a granulometric stabilization by means of a 20 cm thick basalt surcharge and taking the width of the route to 11 m with 7.2 m of carriageway and 1.5 m of shoulder. The stabilized material is sealed with fine material and waterproofed with diluted MC1 awaiting double bituminous treatment.

The treatment is performed with emulsion IRRIGATION BITAFLEX 65 P40 and 12-19 mm gravel of very good quality in irrigation A and with 6-12 mm in irrigation B. The two irrigations are carried out in the same day ensuring the interlocking of the system applying the right dose and using a tandem roller to achieve the searched matrix.

The company has carried out great logistics to obtain granular material and stone aggregates, they have three mobile crushers and one fixed to achieve the necessary daily volumes of material.

With sufficient equipment and materials, together with adequate logistics on site, they are managing to execute close to 20,000 m2 of double finished treatment per day. Grupo BITAFAL is committed to the work ensuring the supply of two daily trips of emulsion to almost 700 km from our plant. The high daily yields with this system and the quality of the finished treatment demonstrate the advantages of this type of execution.

At the end of last year, 5 bridges were inaugurated in the section under reconstruction, with an estimated investment of USD 22 million. In this way the connectivity between Bella Unión and Artigas is assured.

The works are completed with a section of Branch Route 3 between Tomás Gomensoro and Bella Unión by the company DÍaz Alvarez. In that case there is also a surcharge of crushed material and then a double bituminous treatment carried out with emulsion IRRIGATION BITAFLEX 65 P25. In the area Diaz Alvarez has also carried out a resurfacing with BITAFLEX AM3 on Route 3 in the accesses to Bella Unión.

In this way, the Department of Artigas has received the largest injection of works in history, leaving a good quality infrastructure for the development of the area with the realization of investments that boost production activity.

* We thank Engineer Emilio Aitcin of the Traxpalco company for the collaboration provided for this note

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The PPP of Circuit 3 is fulfilling its objectives and already has three sections of Route 14 in service.

The route is finishing being reconstructed in its section between Artigas and Bella Unión.

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Díaz Alvarez Archives - Bitafal