📋 Tender Overview
* The works will rehabilitate and condition the Tunnels of Asco and Capcanes, located in the Barcelona-Mora Line La Nova-Zaragoza * This action will provide more durability to the structure, will improve the railway exploitation and reduce the probability of Adif incidents has awarded for 7,500,790 euros and Capcanes, on the Barcelona-Mora Line La Nova-Zaragoza, within the framework of the Plan to Improve the Infrastructure of Conventional Width in Catalonia, specifically in the province of Tarragona. This action is intended to optimize the status of these structures and alleviate pathologies detected in the technical campaigns that ADIF performs. It is thus intended to solve and avoid leaks, deterioration of the coating elements and the road platform, as well as erosions at the entrance points to the tunnels. The objective, therefore, is to guarantee a greater durability of these tunnels and provide them with a better drainage capacity, providing new materials that increase the availability, reliability, efficiency, efficiency and comfort for railway exploitation, resulting in a higher quality of the service, while reducing the probability of incidents and the maintenance needs are rationalized, both preventive and corrective. This investment adds to another 284 million euros invested between 2018 and May 2025 in actions in the different lines that make up the conventional width network in Tarragona. Description of the actions in the Asco tunnel, about 300 m in length, the dimensions of the interior section will be adapted by reducing the ground, with slight modifications of the layout, it will be renewed, clean and heal the vault, the waterproofing and the improvement of the drainage will be carried out and the slopes of the accesses will be rehabilitated. On the other hand, in the Capcanes tunnel, 700 m long, drainage improvement actions will be undertaken with the construction, cleaning and repair of gutters, and the structural rehabilitation of the vault will be carried out, as well as waterproofing works, among others. This action contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Objective (SDGs) 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), which has among its goals the development of reliable, sustainable, resilient and quality infrastructure.
