Roads: arteries of life

• 50km of road viaducts built
• 1,700km of roads built in last decade
• 10.6km, the length of the Canero and San Timoteo viaducts which won ACCIONA the 1999 Construmat Civil Engineering Prize for Technological Innovation

The road network fully connecting a region will be a key factor in determining its competitiveness, the strength of its economy and even its social development. Throughout history, ACCIONA Infrastructure has participated in this effort alongside governments and users to put into practice its long experience and deep knowledge on several hundred projects that today form part of the highway infrastructure of many countries across the world.

In the past decade alone, the company has built over 1,700km of roads belonging to literally hundreds of projects. It is fair to say that ACCIONA Infrastructure not only builds highways, its activity also includes their maintenance and management through ACCIONA Concessions.

Throughout its century-long history, ACCIONA Infrastructure has carried out the construction, maintenance and management of all kinds of highways, motorways and roads across the world. In all of them, it has applied the most innovative and sustainable building solutions to maximize their usefulness and minimize the environmental impact.

To fulfi ll their function and tackle the challenges a region presents, roads must fi nd sustainable solutions served by elements which emerge from a process of constant innovation. On occasions, these elements contribute added value to the design of roads, transforming them into some of the great engineering landmarks.

Solutions are often based on building structures such as viaducts, bridges and tunnels, aimed at overcoming the challenges nature throws at us with effi ciency and technical excellence as their main premises. In this sense, the more than 50km of road viaducts ACCIONA Infrastructure has constructed throughout its history are just one example of its broad experience and technical capability..

Other essential elements of a highway are link roads and junctions. These fulfi ll the function of managing traffi c and organizing access points for the different populations connected by the road, facilitating its use and realizing its social potential. This is where the Company ’s experience and knowhow makes the vital difference.

Thanks to its already consolidated international presence, the division has left its mark in the form of great projects the world over. Brazil, Australia, Chile, Gabon, Canada and, of course, Spain are some of the countries in which ACCIONA Infrastructure has demonstrated its capacity for constructing, maintaining and managing all kinds of road.

ACCIONA’S EMBLEMATIC PROJECTS ACROSS SPAIN

A-63 OVIEDO-LA ESPINA MOTORWAY. SECTION: GRADO WEST-DORIGA (ASTURIAS, SPAIN)

Section length 4,217m. Unique features include the El Fresno tunnels of 949m (right carriageway) and 923m (left carriageway). Route contains a feeder road for Doriga.

ATLANTIC MOTORWAY. SECTION: MIÑO-FENE (GALICIA, SPAIN)

Motorway of 14.6km. Section has four link roads and the Campolongo and Pedra do Couto tunnels, 540m and 950m, respectively. It also has seven viaducts, one of which crosses the Eume river and Ares tidal inlet, and is 645m long.

LUARCA RELIEF ROAD. SECTION: QUERVAS-OTUR (ASTURIAS, SPAIN)

With a length of 10.6km, it features two viaducts, Canero and San Timoteo, both which have a maximum column height of 75m. ACCIONA was awarded the 1999 Construmat Civil Engineering Prize for Technological Innovation for these two structures.

A-4 ANDALUSIA MOTORWAY. SECTION: LA GUARDIA-MADRIDEJOS (ANDALUSIA, SPAIN)

Dual carriageway 29.38km long. The new carriageway has a 10.5m platform comprising two lanes. The road surface is rigid, formed by a concrete slab. Its construction employed 8.25m-wide pavers.

A-66 LA PLATA MOTORWAY. SECTION: HINOJAL-CACERES (CACERES, SPAIN)

Construction of 21.42km of motorway. Section has four link roads, a unique viaduct over the Almonte river, and two 432m-long, twin-arch viaducts. The arches have a span of 184m and height of 42m.

ACCIONA’S EMBLEMATIC PROJECTS ACROSS THE WORLD

SOUTH-EAST STONEY TRAIL (CALGARY, CANADA)

Design, construction, maintenance, rehabilitation and financing of a 25km bypass for the city of Calgary in the province of Alberta, Canada. The road has six lanes, nine feeder roads, a road fl yover, two rail flyovers and 27 structures.

A-30 MOTORWAY, CHÂTEAUGAUY VAUDREIL-DORIO (QUEBEC , CANADA)

Main communication axis for Montreal metropolitan area. Design, construction and financing of 42km of newly-constructed highway and 30 years’ operation of a total of 74km. The bridge over the Beauharnois Canal is its outstanding feature, at 2.55km the second longest of its kind in the world.

AMERIGO VESPUCCI HIGHWAY (SANTIAGO DE CHILE, CHILE)

Ring road of 23.5km around Santiago de Chile (four urban intersections and links with interstate roads). It has two carriageways of five lanes each, three of which are express lanes and the others collector distributors.

BRAZILIAN FEDERAL HIGHWAY, BR 393

Project and works on existing road of 200.4km, including installations and buildings facilitating a new toll operation. Road repair works, operational improvements and increasing of capacity.