📋 Tender Overview
This weekend the installation of all the prefabricated concrete tiles prepared for the central voussoir key of the Integration Bridge was completed as part of the final works of the structure. In this way this second physical union that Paraguay and Brazil will have on the Paran River is getting closer to its conclusion every day. On this point engineer Pnfilo Bentez special adviser to the ITAIPU Right Bank Coordination Directorate explained that with the installation of the tiles and the concreting of the joints it will soon be possible to walk on the road. Good weather conditions are awaited in the construction zone to continue with the work.Likewise he specified that several details are still missing so that the bridge is one hundred percent ready such as the asphalt layer the installation of the lighting system the New Jersey barriers the anti-suicide railings and the signs so that the project can be definitively completed.It should be remembered that on August 31 the voussoir known as the key had been placed connecting the Paraguayan and Brazilian sides of the bridge for the first time. The official act was attended by the President of the Republic Mario Abdo Bentez and his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro.The key is about 5.75 meters long and weighs more than 20 tons. With this piece the total of 37 metal voussoirs 18 on each side of the bridge that completed the superstructure was completed. It is on these voussoirs that the prefabricated tiles were mounted and whose joints were concreted.The construction of the Integration Bridge is financed by ITAIPU Binacional for USD 84 million. The works began in 2019 and it is expected to be fully completed by November of this year. It will be 760 meters long with a central span of 470 meters of free light over the river and more than 60 meters high.
