OHL participates in two new contracts in Peru for 112 million euro

The OHL Group is participating in two new construction projects in Peru for 112 million euro. These projects reinforce the company’s presence in Peru where it has been operating since 1999.

One of the contracts, valued at 95 million euro, was granted by the Ministry of Transport and Communications for the improvement of the Moquegua Omate-Arequipa highway to the 50/50 joint venture formed by OHL and COSAPI, a leading construction company in Peru. The highway runs along a118 km stretch in the Sierra Sur region of Peru between the districts of Arequipa and Moquegua.

 When the project is completed the highway will have two lanes measuring three meters wide and a paved platform of six meters with berms of 0.5 meters, designed for travel speeds of approximately 30 km/h. The contract includes the construction of seven small bridges with spans ranging between 8 and 40 meters. The pavement consists of 7.5 cm of hot bituminous mixture and 27.5 cm of base for the entire length. The project will be executed in the mountains at high elevations,  some areas  are more than 3,000 meters above sea level.

The “Niño costero” phenomenon

The second project is part of the Reconstruction with Changes Plan carried out by the Peruvian government to rebuild areas of the country most affected by the “Niño costero” phenomenon. The 17 million euro project has been awarded to the OHL and COSAPI joint venture (50/50) by AgroRural, an agency of the Ministry of Agriculture.This contract consists of debris  removal  and clean-up of the Piura River along the 14-km stretch from Laguna San Ramón to the Cordillera sector. It is the area with the largest volume of debris  from the flooding  that destroyedseveral residential areas in the region  in March 2017. This project will benefit  100,000 people  who live in the Piuran districts of Bernal, Tallan, Cristo nos Valga, Catacaos, Cura Mori, and La Arena.

OHL Group has been present in Peru for 18 years and during this period has executed major infrastructure projects. These include the Red Vial 4, part of the Panamericana Norte highway, the main communication highway that runs along the Peruvian coast; the concession for the construction, operation and maintenance of the new La Molina-Angamos urban highway in Lima; rehabilitation and improvement of sections IV and VII of the

Ayacucho-Abancay highway, with a total of 122 km; Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC)projects for the extension of the processing and maintenance units of the gas fractionation plant atthe Pluspetrol refinery, in Pisco; and the O&M contract on the mining equipment of Sociedad Minera El Brocal, in Cerro de Pasco. 

Bridge on the Moquegua-Omate-Arequipa highway in Peru.

OHL will perform the cleaning and elimination of material of the Piura River after the flood caused by the “Niño costero” phenomenon.