Pozoblanco North-West Bypass Project (Córdoba)

CEMOSA has been awarded the contract for the “DRAFTING OF THE PROPOSAL AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE POZOBLANCO NORTHWEST BY-PASS BETWEEN THE A-3177 AND A-423 ROADS”, for the Department of Development, Infrastructures and Territorial Planning of the Regional Government of Andalusia.

The purpose of the project is to give continuity to the existing Pozoblanco bypass and connect it with the A-3177 road. This will complete the connection with the road network to Pozoblanco, increasing accessibility from the north, which is very important for access to Pozoblanco Hospital, which provides health care for the whole of the Valle de los Pedroches region.

This action would complete the population variation, executed by the Junta de Andalucía in 2008, allowing the total elimination of crossings and resolving the road conflict in the urban environment.

Link of interest: https://www.diariocordoba.com/cordoba/2021/04/16/junta-adjudica-redaccion-proyecto-variante-48425831.html

Partial view of the project area at the junction of the A-423.

Happy World Creativity and Innovation Day!

Since 2007, CEMOSA has an R&D&I department. We are highly committed to this area, as it is of vital importance to acquire knowledge through the necessary human and economic resources, establishing an R&D policy and defining objectives that are reviewed every year.

In order to provide value to the client and to society in general, we want our technical staff to be in permanent training, through continuous participation in R&D&I projects.

CEMOSA’s concern for continuous development has been recognised and valued with grants from Public Administrations: European Union (7th Framework Programme, H2020 programme), Spanish Government (CDTI, Ministry of Industry) and the Andalusian Regional Government (Junta de Andalucía). Others have been financed by clients or by CEMOSA itself. In addition, we have held the UNE 166002:2014 Standard Certificate “R&D&I Management: R&D&I Management System Requirements” since 2009.

Our R&D&I development areas include Transport Infrastructures (innovative infrastructure design, intelligent maintenance, advanced motorisation and impact assessment) and Building and Energy Efficiency (Integration of renewable energy systems in buildings, building refurbishment with advanced materials, projects based on Building Information Modelling, technologies for smart grids and smart cities).

These images accompanying this publication are from the University of Malaga demonstrator within the ebalanceplus project, coordinated by CEMOSA, where new technologies for smart grids have been demonstrated.

CEMOSA es adjudicataria de la Asistencia Técnica en Control de Calidad para la Excma. Diputación de Córdoba

CEMOSA continues to be present in the main local, provincial, regional, national and international administrations.

In this case, it has been awarded 3 lots of the contract for “Technical Assistance for the quality control of the actions of the technical services of the Provincial Council of Cordoba included in the Provincial Investment Plans and Programmes for the biennium 2020-2021”.

The wide range of actions to be carried out includes quality control, geotechnical, topographical and acoustic studies, specialised technical work such as pathology studies, hydrogeological studies, auscultation for road surface diagnosis, infrastructure reports relating to their diagnosis, control of installations and structures, and even acoustic and energy efficiency consultancy services. The main objective of the contract is to provide the necessary technical assistance to the Works Management for support in the inspection and monitoring of the execution, as well as the performance of measurements, studies of alternatives and decision making in all those matters that may be required of us.

The duration of the contract will be for the two-year period 2020-2021, extendable for a further two-year period.

Model work in lot 3

 

Model work in lot 5

CEMOSA signs the contract for the drafting of projects with the Port of Gijón

CEMOSA has been awarded the contract for Technical Assistance for the Drafting of Projects promoted by the Port Authority of Gijón (APG).

The works related to the projects to be drafted will be related to different fields of action, such as railway works, levelling and paving, maritime works, electrical installations, underwater works… CEMOSA’s work will require the collection and obtaining of the necessary information in order to execute the project and the proposal of optimal solutions to carry it out. For this, CEMOSA will have to analyse, among other things, the climatology, hydrology and hydrodynamics of the site.

Specifically, the possible actions to be undertaken include the renovation of the railway tracks, the paving of docks, esplanades, floating beams and other facilities for loading equipment, the repair of buildings and warehouses, the reinforcement of tunnels and slope support.

The contract is worth 78,202.26 euros including VAT and the works began in March.

Port of Gijón

The widening of the Inter-American Highway between Limonal and Cañas continues (Costa Rica)

The extension and rehabilitation works of the National Route 1 (North Inter-American Highway) between Limonal and Cañas, whose Supervision is under the responsibility of the “Consorcio Ruta Nº1-CR-Limonal-Cañas” led by CEMOSA, continue progressing in its construction after the technical definition of the Limonal Interchange, one of the most significant elements of the project, besides having reached a notable progress in the placement of the concrete pavement that will serve as a roadbed for the definitive carriageways.

Paver and pedestrian walkway

The execution of this 20.8 km long section between the Costa Rican towns of Limonal and Cañas represents an important improvement for the connectivity of the northern part of the country, especially for the province of Guanacaste, with an investment by the MOPT (Ministry of Public Works and Transport of the Republic of Costa Rica) and the IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) of more than $100 million.

Its development includes the construction of 6 vehicular bridges, 2 subways, 1 interchange and 7 pedestrian footbridges, as well as other elements such as wildlife crossings, return roads, marginal roads, etc.

Construction of Javillos Bridge

The project is currently over 60% complete, and the works are scheduled for completion by the end of November 2021.

Future Limonal Interchange

CEMOSA has been awarded the consultancy and technical assistance services for the new judicial building in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid

CEMOSA will carry out the consultancy and technical assistance services for the quality control of the construction of the Single Judicial Building, located in Torrejón de Ardoz in Madrid, which will bring together the five current judicial headquarters.

During the duration of the project, CEMOSA will ensure that the works are carried out in accordance with the mandatory regulations. It will also be responsible for the environmental monitoring of the construction work.

CEMOSA will be in charge of the execution control works by means of inspections of the work pits in progress and final operation and reception tests, anticipating at all times any problems that may arise during the execution of the works.

The award has been granted for a budget of 136,041 euros (VAT included) and the works will begin imminently.

Welcome to our new CEMOSA-Panama offices

The new offices of CEMOSA (Panama) were recently opened, located in Ciudad Del Saber, Calle Rosa Landecho, Galera 246 B y D. A modern and qualified space for the areas of engineering and laboratory (Material Quality Control). It was designed under the structural policies of our company, following the characteristics that represent us:

  • Office furniture and equipment suitable for the comfort of workers.
  • Multifunctional spaces.
  • Integrated technology
  • Collaborative environments.
  • Open spaces.
  • Recreation and rest areas.
  • Lighting.
  • Decorative motivation.
  • Innovative passive system for aerosol purification by means of sensors, limited to the environment in which they are installed:
  • Active carbon filters.
  • HEPA filters..
  • UV germicidal lamps.

It has become a pleasant workspace, formed for better communication between workers, which will positively transcend into the work.

CEMOSA’s application to become a founding member of the European Programme ‘Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking’ accepted

The application led by CEMOSA, through the European Smart Green Rail Joint Venture (eSGR JV) consortium, has been accepted to participate in the European Rail Research and Innovation Partnership (continuation of the current Shift2Rail).

 CEMOSA, as a leading partner of eSGR together with 5 other Spanish entities: Enyse, Comsa, UPM, Tekniker and Etra, will participate as a founding member of the R&D&I programme ‘Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking’. In this new programme, which will last 10 years, CEMOSA’s participation will be based on two fundamental principles: Ecological Transition and Digitalisation.

 The main objective of this participation in the successor programme of Shift2Rail, is to encourage the development and implementation of innovative technologies and solutions in the rail sector to meet the objectives of the European Green Deal, as well as to establish a framework to develop a wide range of solutions with support from within and outside our entity (through other founding members and partners of the programme) in order to achieve the goal of a 75% market uptake by 2030, improving the competitiveness of the European rail sector and shaping the European transport of the future.

 From CEMOSA we want to promote aspects such as digitalisation, automation and sustainable freight transport and eSGR will address the objectives of the Partnership to be achieved by 2030:

  • Delivering integrated European rail networks.
  • Delivering multimodality and interconnection of services.
  • Delivering European rail industry competitiveness for the whole sector.

In this link you can consult the Annexes of the European Commission: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2021/EN/COM-2021-87-F1-EN-ANNEX-1-PART-1.PDF

 

CEMOSA carries out the hydrogeological-geotechnical study of several schools (Aspe, Alicante)

For more than two decades, the residents of the town of Aspe (Alicante) have been suffering the inconvenience caused by the pathologies of the foundations in the area of the municipality where its four educational centres are located, especially the Villa de Aspe Secondary School.

In this context, CEMOSA was awarded the contract for “HYDROGEOLOGICAL-GEOTECHNICAL STUDY SERVICES IN THE VILLA DE ASPE HIGH SCHOOL AND ITS SURROUNDINGS”.

The pathologies of the foundations of this school hinder the normal development of educational activities. CEMOSA has focused all its efforts on finding out the origin of these pathologies, which include subsidence, tilting, cracks of various types, collapsed areas and damage to expansion joints, among others. To this end, an exhaustive reconnaissance was carried out on the existing historical area photography from 1945 to the present day, thus allowing a reliable knowledge of the geomorphological evolution of the study area to be obtained. Likewise, one of CEMOSA’s star services has been carried out, a geotechnical campaign (mechanical soundings with core recovery, DPSH dynamic penetrations, reconnaissance test pits, presiometric tests) which has allowed us to know the exact geotechnical characteristics of the ground being founded.

Following the study of the terrain, a close correlation was found between the most damaged areas and those with the greatest thickness of anthropic fill underneath them, and it is in these areas where a deeper foundation will be necessary.

CEMOSA proposes a discretisation into three different zones of action:

  • Firstly, Zone A, occupied by the current sports courts of the centre, is the area of greatest geotechnical conflict and is where the anthropic fills reach the maximum thickness; 19 metres.
  • On the other hand, Zone B, where the optimum solution is to replace the first 2 metres with a granular material that will significantly mitigate the deformations of the terrain.
  • Finally, Zone C, which represents the sector with the smallest anthropic fill thicknesses (2-4 metres).

After the study, CEMOSA delivered the hydrogeological-geotechnical evaluation report to the Aspe Town Council, with all the proposed solutions to improve the facilities of this educational centre.

All these actions and executions were publicly presented during the presentation of the project by CEMOSA in the town of Aspe, which was attended by technical staff from the Town Council, representatives of the Generalitat Valenciana and various local and independent media.

Presentation of the project to the authorities

 

 

Madrid Calle 30 civil engineering and structural works project review work begins

CEMOSA has signed a new project supervision contract. In this case, it is the contract for the supervision of integral projects of Madrid Calle 30 (Lot 1: Review of civil works and structures projects), which CEMOSA was recently awarded together with SUBTERRA INGENIERÍA.

 The company Madrid Calle 30, attached to the Environment and Mobility Area of the Madrid City Council, manages the operation, conservation and maintenance of the Calle 30 ring road and the infrastructures and spaces around it (junctions, bridges, green areas, etc.).

 The main problem facing Madrid Calle 30 is the location of the projects, generally in an urban environment, with nearby housing and municipal roads that are affected.

 This contract will include the provision of project review services, reviewing each construction project, regardless of its nature, in order to check that it has been carried out in accordance with all the requirements established in the applicable standards, instructions, regulations and good practice criteria, to achieve the quality standards both in its definition and its assessment, thus allowing adequate confidence to be acquired that it can be correctly executed and that its performance will be as expected when the finished work is in service.

 There are a total of 24 projects to be reviewed, which have been differentiated according to their Material Execution Budget:

  • 22 projects with an EMP of less than 2 million €
  • 1 project with an EMP between 2 and 8 million €
  • 1 project with an EMP between 14 and 20 million €

The contract value amounts to 249,851.48 euros (VAT included).