📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Transport Mobility and Urban Agenda Mitma has tendered for 81.8 million euros VAT included the works contract for the modernization and improvement of the road and traffic conditions of the Barrios Cosera Oblanca tunnels El Negrn Vegaviesga Pando and Entrerregueras all of them located on the AP-66 Campomanes-Len motorway in the provinces of Asturias and Len.Although the tunnels currently have favorable operating conditions it is necessary to carry out this action to adapt their facilities in line with the provisions of the Royal Decree on minimum safety requirements for tunnels of the trans-European road network.The intervention is included in the Recovery Transformation and Resilience Plan PRTR which contemplates investing up to 357 million euros without VAT from NextGenerationEU funds to modernize more than 80 tunnels and promote the protection of fauna and vulnerable users in the State Highway Network through actions distributed throughout the national geography.The AP-66 is a high mountain motorway with a layout of 76 kilometers km of which 8.8 km correspond to the seven aforementioned tunnels all of them formed by two unidirectional traffic tubes with two or three lanes in each direction. highlighting the El Negrn tunnel of 4166 meters m in length.performancesAmong other actions the emergency exits signage beacons lighting ventilation electrical installation fire protection surveillance systems by closed circuit television the drainage of toxic liquids or the management of the traffic etcFor exampleConstruction of 11 new connection galleries between tubes in the Barrios Oblanca El Negrn and Pando tunnels. In the Barrios tunnel in addition an existing pedestrian gallery becomes vehicular.Renovation of the electrical substations of Ro Pajares and Negrn Sur and new substation of Entrerregueras.All the tunnels will be equipped with external mobile motorized cameras to monitor the entrances and an internal closed circuit television CCTV system and an Automatic Incident Detection AID system will be designed by processing the received images.In addition the update of the equipment of the Control Center of La Ablaneda is included through the implementation of the necessary servers and workstations to allow real-time control of all the tunnel installations both of the existing ones that will be maintained as those of new installation through a centralized control system of supervision and data acquisition SCADA. With this the aim is to optimize the operation of the facilities detect the elements that are malfunctioning and implement action plans in the event of incidents.
