OHL is awarded the Curicó Hospital in Chile, a project worth 230 millions euros

The OHL Group has been awarded the construction  of the new Curicó Hospital in Chile,  a project worth 230 million euros. The contract was awarded by Chile’s Ministry of Health, through the Directorate of Architecture of the Ministry of Public Works. The new healthcare center, with an anti-seismic system incorporated into its structure, will replace the facility destroyed by the earthquake that devastated the country in 2010.

The project consists of the construction of a new hospital building with 12 operating rooms and a capacity for 400 beds. The facility will have a total built-up area of 102,930 m² distributed on 9 floors, two of which will be underground. The areas to be used for hospital care include 8 emergency room cubicles, 5 integrated delivery rooms, 27 medical procedure cubicles and 52 physician offices for clinical specialists. The center will be designed to an energy efficiency model and will have a parking area for 800 vehicles and a heliport for emergency medical transfers within the national health network.

Work is scheduled to commence in the month of October, and BIM methodology (Building Information Modeling) will be applied to the construction process.

 

Outstanding experience in the hospital sector

OHL has exceptional experience in the construction of hospitals, an area in which it has performed more than 150 projects for new facilities, with a total built-up area of more than 6,000,000 m² and a capacity for more than 60,000 beds in countries such as Spain, Portugal, Panama, Iraq, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile and in North America.

In relation to the activity being carried out in Chile, OHL has performed the construction of the military hospital facility, Hospital Militar de la Reina, in Santiago de Chile. With a surface area of 86,350 m², the building design includes a seismic protection system made up by 164 elastomer isolators. In Viña del Mar, Valparaíso region, OHL is building the Hospital Gustavo Fricke, to replace the hospital of the same name that was inaugurated in 1954. The facility will have a capacity for more than 550 beds, with seven delivery rooms and a built-up area of 92,000 m² distributed in 24 units.

The OHL Group is also present in the country in the transportation infrastructures sector and in the industrial area. Highlights include the Eastern Americo Vespucio toll road, the construction and operation of Terminal 2 in the Port of Valparaíso, the Industrial Bridge toll road concession, the main section of which is the bridge over the Biobío River, and the work performed on Route 60 (Section 2, Sector 1, Panquehue Bypass) and on Line 3 of the Metro de Santiago de Chile – civil works involving shafts, galleries and tunnels on sections 5 and 6–. The EPC copper ore treatment plant in Calama, currently under operation and maintenance (O&M), together with the rhyolite crushing plant in Antofagasta, where the Group has carried out the O&M service, are another two significant projects.

 

Computer visualization of the future Curicó Hospital, in Chile.