Construction—South America—Brazil—Bridges
The Rodoanel Norte, Lot 6: DSI supplies Strand Tendons for one of the
largest Construction Projects in Latin America
With approximately 20 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, São Paulo is the largest city
in Brazil and the country’s most important economic and financial center. Currently, 93% of
all goods are transported on the roads of the city, which regularly causes up to 200km long
traffic jams.
To relieve the city area from traffic flowing
through the city, the 177km long Rodoanel
Mario Covas is currently under construction.
The road that is also known as São Paulo
Metropolitan Ring Road is one of the largest
construction projects in Latin America and will
be connected to the 10 motorways that lead
into São Paulo. Lot 1 is carried out by the Joint Venture
Mendes Júnior-Isolux Corsán, the General
Contractor OAS is building Lots 2 and 3,
Acciona has been awarded the contracts
for Lots 4 and 6, and the Construcap-Copasa
Joint Venture is carrying out Lot 5. The two
lots Acciona has been awarded the contract
for have a total length of 25km.
The fourth section of the ring road, the
Rodoanel Norte, is divided into 6 lots. DSI Prepron supported all 6 lots with
high quality products and services.
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Nearly 2,000 prefabricated segments for
the new bridges and viaducts were stressed
using DSI Prepron’s post-tensioning systems.
DSI Prepron also carried out the stressing
and grouting work.
For Lot 6 that is being built by Acciona,
DSI Prepron also produced and supplied
its strand post-tensioning system for the
prefabricated segments.