📋 Tender Overview
With a general execution of 15.53 at the end of March of this year the construction of the Biocenica bridge continues on both banks of the Paraguay River between the cities of Carmelo Peralta Alto Paraguay and Porto Murtinho Mato Grosso do Sul Brazil.The activities on the Paraguayan side are mainly focused on the assembly of the formwork and reinforcements of the E1 abutment which is already in its last stage the sixth.Likewise we proceed to the assembly of the head frames left and right of the main pier number 13 as well as the shafts for piles 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 9.On the Brazilian side the drilling of piles is being carried out in abutment E2 as well as the piles in piers 20 21 and 24 and from stack 14 main stack.The piles are reinforced concrete cylinders that are used as the foundation of the bridge at a variable depth between 33 and 43 meters and that are embedded in the rocky massif called shale.In total 300 piles must be built with a measurement of between 1 and 1.5 meters in diameter. As of last April of the 300 planned piles 140 out of a total of 142 have already been completed on the Paraguayan side and 31 piles out of a total of 158 on the Brazilian side.At the same time 19 heads out of a total of 24 in PY were placed and in the process of execution there are 3 of 28 heads on the side of the neighboring country.The heads are structural components of reinforced concrete of considerable volume and rigidity which fulfill the function of connecting the piles that transfer the loads of the superstructure to the subsoil.This project -in charge of the PYBRA Consortium- is fully financed by the Paraguayan margin of Itaipu Binacional for an amount of G. 616836755744.It is a key piece of the so-called Bioceanic route which will allow the interaction of the ports located in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans promoting development for different countries in South America.
