OHL will construct Peru´s National Archaeological Museum with a contract of 108 million euros
June 22, 2016
In Peru, OHL will participate in building its National Archaeological Museum (MUNA), a project of 108 million Euros (406 million Peruvian Soles), a tender in which nine bids were submitted and which the Peruvian Ministry of Culture has awarded to the joint venture 50% held by OHL, along with the other Spanish company Aldesa Construcciones.
The MUNA project entails the greatest investment in Peru’s history in order to protect, study and disseminate the rich and vast cultural heritage of this Latin American country. It will be able to accommodate 500,000 pre-Inca and Inca archaeological pieces, which will be exhibited to visitors under modern surveillance and security systems.
The building, whose outside architecture has been designed with reminiscences of its pre-Hispanic past, will be harmoniously included in cultural and environmental surroundings. It will be erected over more than 75,000 m², located in the Pachacámac archaeological site, in the Lurín district, at kilometer point 31 along the former Panamericana Sur.
It will include seven floors, three underground, connected through perimeter ramps around an open central area, taking advantage of natural light to highlight the valuable archaeological collection surrounding it.
MUNA will also have a new Kids Museum, an auditorium accommodating 450 seats and a meeting room, in addition to restaurants, services and parking lots. The construction term is approximately two years.
Peru is one of the eight countries that the Group has defined as home markets in its 2015-2020 Strategic Plan. That means it is a priority market for OHL’s future growth, through its local presence in the Concessions, Construction and Industrial divisions.
At present, the OHL Group has two toll road concessions in Peru. In late 2008, OHL Concesiones was awarded the Northern Toll Road or Red Vial 4 Toll Road, a relevant 356 km section along the Pan American Highway, linking Pativilca and Trujillo. In January 2016, it was also awarded the La Molina-Angamos urban highway in Lima, thanks to the private venture launched by OHL Concesiones, which is awaiting a second private venture in the country: the road concession of the Ica-Quilca section along Pan American Highway (South), 518 km long.
In turn, OHL Construcción has executed highly relevant projects, such as sections IV and VII along the Ayacucho-Abancay road, 122 km long. This road is part of Longitudinal de la Sierra road, with a route running parallel to the Andes mountain range. In the first section, works were executed 4,230 m above sea level and at 3,752 m in the second. Since mid 2015, it has been constructing a 20 km section of the Andahuaylas-Huancabamba road, in south Peru, with a budget of 30 million euros.
In 2010, OHL Industrial achieved its first large project in the Oil&Gas sector in Peru: the gas fracking plant of the Pluspetrol refinery in Pisco, for 125 million USD, resulting from a competitive tender with other European and American firms.
Furthermore, both OHL Construcción and OHL Industrial have executed and carried out large projects, procured with Peru’s leading mining companies. In this field, OHL Construcción has participated in mining infrastructure development in the sector’s largest projects in Peru over the last few years, with a procurement volume exceeding 300 million euros.
