OHL is awarded two contracts worth more than 80 million in Peru

OHL continues to expand its presence in Peru, a country where it has been operating for more than 20 years, with the award of two new contracts for a combined value in excess of €81.2 million in the areas of transportation and hospital infrastructure.

The first contract, valued at more than €53.7 million, includes the northern expansion of the Metropolitano (rapid-transit bus system) in the capital, Lima. In addition, for a value of more than €27.5 million, the company will carry out the improvement and expansion works of the Chulucanas Support Hospital, in the department of Piura, in the northwest of the country.

Specifically, OHL will carry out, in a joint venture, the expansion of the northern section of COSAC I from the existing Naranjal Station to Chimpu Ocllo Avenue, under a contract awarded by the Lima Municipal Toll Administration Company (EMAPE).

The works include the construction of a 10.2 km-long segregated corridor, 17 new stations (of which 13 will be regular stations with one boarding area, and the remaining four stations will be integrating with two boarding areas), a terminal in Chimpu Ocllo and a switchyard for 120 vehicles. The project also includes the construction of a wastewater treatment plant, the adaptation of more than 180,000 m² of green areas, and the installation of more than 600 LED lighting units, signage, video surveillance cameras and fiber optics for monitoring tracks, among other works.

The benefits derived from this expansion refer, on the one hand, to the increase in more than 790,000 trips throughout the metropolitan system, the improvement in mobility and quality of life of more than 350,000 residents in four districts of northern Lima, as well as access to a quality, more accessible and modern transportation service.

More than twenty years developing infrastructure in Peru

Regarding the improvement and expansion of the Chulucanas Support Hospital awarded by the Authority for Reconstruction with Changes (ARCC), the works will affect an area of 24,953 m² with 92 hospital beds, 18 consulting rooms, 16 cribs, two operating rooms and a delivery room, among other facilities.

OHL has extensive experience in hospital construction, which has resulted in more than 150 new hospitals –equivalent to nearly 6 million square meters and more than 60,000 beds–, nearly 100 health centers and more than 200 renovation and rehabilitation projects.

The works at the Chulucanas Support Hospital are in addition to other outstanding hospitals in Latin America, such as the La Reina Military Hospital, in Santiago de Chile, with an area of 86,350 m² and a seismic protection system made up of 164 elastomeric isolators; the Curicó hospital, which replaces the one destroyed by an earthquake in 2010, with more than 109.152 m²of surface area and 400 beds; and in Viña del Mar, in the Valparaiso Region, the Gustavo Fricke Hospital, replacing the center with the same name, which was inaugurated in 1954 and has 193 elastomeric isolators, also located in Chile.

Más de veinte años desarrollando infraestructuras en Perú

OHL has executed important projects in Peru where it has been present for more than 20 years. Of particular note is the construction of the Road Network No. 4, within the North Pan-American Highway, the rehabilitation and improvement project of the Ayacucho-Abancay Highway (sections IV and VII), with a total of 122 km, as well as the works in the expansion project for the Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima. The company also participates in Peruvian mining through large projects for the Antamina, Quellaveco, Las Bambas and Yanacocha mining companies. In the building area, the construction of the National Museum of Archaeology (MUNA) in Lima and the Villa el Salvador Sports Center for the Pan-American Games Lima 2019 stand out.

Infographic about the improvement and expansion of the Chulucanas Support Hospital project