Public works advises that it gives finishing touches to the asphalting of the tunnel towards the UASD

The Ministry of public works and communications and the corridor Consortium reported yesterday that they give the finishing touches to the asphalting of the tunnel from the Ortega y Gasset until the UASD, in order to put into operation soon.

Tunnel is defined as an underpass in North South direction with a length of 1.20 kilometers, and will have two lanes, with a width of 3.65 m each.

Engineers, heavy equipment and workers gave this Sunday morning the final touches to the placement of 3.5 inches of asphalt to the viaduct, whose design speed is 50 km per hour.

Also work in the lighting system, where luminaries from steam, is used a system metallic white from 200 to 400 watts of the Philips brand. The distance between each varies according to the area in which this installed.

In the lateral stripes and ceiling coatings of aluminum as a work of art are placed to the u000aviaduct.

The Ministry said that at the moment working on the connection of cameras for video, fans and sensors of smoke, which will be connected to the center of control of the February 27.

A novelty is that construction company contract Creole labour for more than 90 percent of the work.

Work
the construction company carried out excavation work in a careful way, since there is little coverage of rock above the tunnel, this forced to work slowly, but guaranteeing security.

The Austrian method is a way of completely underground excavation, which allows to minimize all interference from the surface. The excavation works were used for milling machines with 60 tons on two fronts to expedite construction.

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