URBANIZATION CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN “PARC SAGUNT II” BUSINESS PARK, LOT 1: SLIP ROAD

Location: SAGUNTO
Contracting Party: Economic Business Spaces
Budget: 48,880,370 € (with VAT included)
Completion timeline: 18 MONTHS

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The project consists of building a main road to access Parc Sagunt II, which will connect to Parc Sagunt I and highway CV309, and “Camí la Mar” industrial park and highway V-23 to the north. This one will be the access road with the greatest capacity for vehicles to the Volkswagen group battery Gigafactory, managed by its subsidiary PowerCo. The financing, from European Funds and national funds, implies very strict deadlines.

Two elevated crossings are included in the main road: the first of them being 255 meters which crosses above highway CV309 and the future Sagunto Multi-Purpose Transportation Platform, and the second one being 300 meters going over the Railway Infrastructure Administrator (ADIF using its initials in Spanish) Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto railway. Additionally, the roads have two lanes in each direction, of the category T0, for intense heavy-vehicle traffic. Urban amenities will be provided such as street lighting, a bike lane and gardens, as well as the services necessary to carry out industrial activity (gas, telecommunications, provisions, a firefighting network, high, medium, and low-voltage electricity…)

Also, the 9,428 meters of separation networks will allow for an efficient treatment of collected water, in the same way that the roundabouts will form part of a sustainable drainage system.

The main entry to the gigafactory will have a 32,000 m2 parking lot with a capacity of more than 1,100 lightweight vehicles, which will have cover under glass roofs which will support photovoltaic panels, in this way generating energy for electric vehicle chargers and nocturnal lighting.

Among the unique aspects of the project, the biggest crane on wheels in the Valencian Community has been utilized, weighing 650 metric tons, capable of lifting beams up to 37m in length and 125 metric tons in weight. Given the hardness of the layer of rock present in the parcel of land and the large quantity of trenches to make, a trencher was employed capable of reaching 3m deep, excavating trenches in rock and at the same time providing appropriate fill-in material for the project itself.

As examples of sustainable quirks of this project, in addition to the installation of the photovoltaic panels, the material produced by demolition from the project itself was crushed and reused in the project, reducing its carbon footprint.