Uruguay River Commission Tender

The binational commission that integrates Uruguay and Argentina communicated the failure of the public bidding for architectural blueprints of the environmental laboratory that will be located in Fray Bentos in which 97 teams of architects participated. The objective is to have a center of high technology and excellence whose studies contribute to define measures of prevention conservation and improvement of the water course.The team led by Uruguayan Marcelo Gualano and Martn Gualano won the first place in the binational public bidding contest for architectural blueprints for the construction of an environmental laboratory of the organization. The second prize was obtained by compatriot Francesco Comerci y Asociados and the third place recognized the proposal of the Argentinian Miguel Cocco. The contest to which 97 teams of professionals from Uruguay and Argentina applied was sponsored by the Society of Architects of Uruguay SAU and the College of Architects of the Province of Entre Ros Caper under the auspices of the Argentine Federation of Entities of Architects Fadea.The vice president of the Uruguayan delegation to the Uruguay River Administration Commission CARU Rogelio Texeira explained that the initiative arises from the agreement between the presidents Tabar Vzquez from Uruguay and Mauricio Macri from Argentina to have a binational environmental laboratory which will be located in the city of Fray Bentos at the head of the Libertador General San Martn bridge which crosses the Uruguay River and connects the capital of Ro Negro with the town of Puerto Unzu.Texeira noted that the objective of the project is to have a laboratory of excellence high technology with analytical capacity to establish basic and complex parameters of the aquatic system and in turn to determine the environmental quality of ecosystems sediments and biota set of flora and fauna of a specific place to define measures for prevention conservation and improvement of the river itself .Since 2012 the CARU has been carrying out permanent water quality controls at UPMs own pulp mill in its area of influence at the mouth of the Gualeguaych River and starting in 2017 the comprehensive monitoring of the 500-mile stretch began kilometers shared with the neighboring country and begins to monitor some specific discharges of cities and industrialists in the area of the Uruguay River described the interviewee. Texeira said that a large part of the analyzes carried out to date are done in Uruguayan and Argentine laboratories but also in extra-regional establishments which are very expensive.The interviewee reported that since the resolution of Presidents Tabare Vazquez and Mauricio Macri tending to make the binational laboratory work in the CARU field the agency initiated the definition process. This is how he began to incorporate and train human resources to acquire equipment to certify work processes and to perform analyzes in order to generate the conditions for its operation. With the new projected laboratory the binational agency intends to control the river with its own resources and capabilities and help the region count on the qualified human and technical resources that these centers require for complex analyzes.