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Asphalt of Madrid’s M-30 turned into a park
09/22/2011ACCIONA is helping to improve the environment in the heart of the Spanish capital by planting over 6,500 trees, 130,000 bushes and 44,000 m2 of parkland which needs very little water.
ACCIONA is helping to improve the environment in the heart of the Spanish capital by planting over 6,500 trees, 130,000 bushes and 44,000 m2 of parkland which needs very little water.
The trees planted will generate 685 metric tons of oxygen a year
Development and landscaping of the area freed by excavation works for the road, part of the Madrid Río project, have added 195,014 m2 to Arganzuela Park and improved quality of life for residents. The landscaping, carried out by ACCIONA Medio Ambiente, has followed the Company's sustainability principles through an automated control system which allows programming, monitoring and management of watering from a central location. Operation and duration of the irrigation is adjusted automatically according to climatic conditions.
A large urban forest
More than 6,500 trees-no less than 18 different species-have been planted along the near fi ve kilometers of walkways and paths and in woods adjacent to fi ve playing, sports and cultural areas. The plantations together cover a green area of some 685,000 m2 of urban forest. This means the generation of 685 metric tons of oxygen a year and the net absorption of 171 metric tons of CO2 a year, the equivalent of emissions from 727 vehicles per day.
A giant lantern
Designed by Dominique Perrault and built by ACCIONA Infrastructures and its partners, the Arganzuela bridge divides into two arms which total 278 meters in length. It is one of the final links in the Madrid Río project. The bridge comes together over a square with vantage points in the park itself. Two rising spirals and the mesh covering them, shining by day and illuminated at night, are its distinguishing features.
Shade by day, light at night
The work consists of two footbridges: one with a span of 116.65 meters between supports (measured between each axis of support) which passes over the River Manzanares; and another with a span of 96 meters between supports which stretches over Arganzuela Park. The main structure is made from steel and partly surrounded by a metallic mesh which makes for a walkway in shade during the day and is transformed into a luminescent feature by night, a kind of outsize lantern.
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