📋 Tender Overview
Construction activities continue at a good pace on both sides of the future international bridge that will link the cities of Carmelo Peralta Paraguay and Puerto Murtinho Brazil exposing to date a total execution of 13 according to reports by those responsible for the construction of the Bioceanic Bridge. The report details that on the Paraguayan side intense work is currently taking place in the sector of the abutment structure that will form the access viaduct including the assembly of the structural piers for said access. Meanwhile head and pile installation activities are advancing on both banks of the Paraguay River PY and BR. All this is accompanied by the corresponding dynamic load tests on each of the installed piles to determine the correct resistance of the structural base of the future walkway.According to the technical data provided it is planned to install a total of 300 piles distributed between both banks. The piles are reinforced concrete cylinders that will serve as the bridges foundation and have a variable depth of between 33 and 43 meters and are embedded in the rocky massif called shale.As for the Headers they are structural components of reinforced concrete of considerable volume and rigidity which fulfill the function of connecting the piles that transfer the loads from the superstructure to the subsoil.For their part from the Brazilian side they reported that work has already begun for the installation of the 2-meter piles that will serve as a base in the infrastructure of the cable-stay tower destined for the neighboring country.The Bioceanica bridge is fully financed by the Paraguayan side of Itaipu Binacional which invested an amount of G. 616836755744.Executed by the PYBRA Consortium it is a key piece of the so-called Bioceanic Route which will allow the interaction of ports located in the oceans.
