📋 Tender Overview
The comprehensive remodeling of the National Technical College (CTN) in Asuncion has progressed close to 75%, with simultaneous interventions in different blocks organized in two phases. The project will directly benefit approximately 1,550 students, teachers and administrative staff. With the objective of verifying the development of the work in the field, the President of the Republic, Santiago Pena, together with the Minister of Public Works and Communications, Eng. Claudia Centurion, and her technical team, representatives of the Ministry of Education and Sciences; and the general director of Itaipu Binacional, Justo Zacarias Irun, among other authorities, toured the institutions grounds. Minister Claudia Centurion highlighted the scope of the project, which includes not only intervention in infrastructure, but also the equipment of the facility. The great leap that is made beyond the hard works, the engineering works, is the commitment to the equipment dedicated to these laboratories, in the case of the CTN, all the laboratories are with new equipment, new presses, also the areas of chemistry, turning, robotics, etc. Greater accessibility An aspect that highlights the comprehensive intervention is the adaptation of the different sectors to improve accessibility. There is a complete change in everything: the bathrooms, floors, the electrical part, the sports areas, new classroom blocks, the windows, they adapted to everything that is universal accessibility. Interventions in two phases The execution plan is divided into two stages. The first covers blocks corresponding to classrooms of specialties such as civil constructions, industrial mechanics, chemistry and common plan areas, among other spaces. The second phase focuses on the classrooms located on the upper floor, as well as the parking area and administrative sectors. In total, the intervention covers an approximate area of 7,000 square meters. It includes improvements in civil infrastructure, electrical and telecommunications installations, fire protection systems and storm and sewage drainage networks, which will position the CTN as a reference institution at the national level. The work is carried out by the company Compania de Construcciones Civiles S.A., with an investment of USD 3,766,349, financed by Itaipu. Comprehensive remodeling The director of the CTN, lawyer professor Alcides Hoffmeister, highlighted the benefits that this historic intervention will bring to the educational community. The educational community is very expectant and happy about what is happening to the institution in this very positive way. Likewise, he stressed that It is not only new infrastructure but also the equipment of workshops, laboratories and furniture to be able to offer better learning conditions for our students. Finally, he reported that from April 20 the process of returning to in-person classes will begin. Date: March 26, 2026
