New route on Santiago Metro will cover 27km and benefit two million citizens with significantly reduced travel times.
Ayesa, a global provider of engineering and technology services, has achieved a new milestone in the Santiago de Chile metro. After carrying out supervision work on lines 3 and 7, the company Metro de Santiago has now awarded it specialised advice (project management) for the engineering and construction of Line 9.
The current Santiago Metro network is one of the most modern and extensive in Latin America, with 149 kilometres. Metro de Santiago has opted for this system as the backbone of connectivity and sustainable urban mobility and while construction work continues on Line 7 and engineering work on Line 8, it has already planned the future Line 9 with a budget of $2.7bn.
Ayesa has extensive experience in mass transport systems and in this new contract it will provide engineering management consultancy services, counterparty engineering, environmental and community relations consultancy, coordination of works, coordination and management of service changes, management of expropriations and easements, planning and project control.
The future Line 9 will be completely underground and will add 27km to the current network. It will travel through the communes of Recoleta, Santiago, San Miguel, San Joaquín and La Granja, San Ramón, La Pintana and Puente Alto, benefiting two million inhabitants who will significantly reduce travel times.
It will be the first metro line in Santiago to have a quadruple combination – the Cal y Canto station will combine with lines 2, 7 and 3, it will also have six combinations in total and will decongest Line 4, offering a direct route to the centre of the capital.
The new route includes 19 stations, as well as workshops and depots. Mariluz Ramírez, director of Transport LATAM at Ayesa, said: “To integrate the works on Line 9 with the rest of the existing infrastructures, there are some stations that must be developed at depths greater than 40 metres, which forces us to look for innovative solutions. Vertical passenger transport must be efficiently designed between the level of Line 9, the surface and the levels of other interchange stations, all with massive transfer volumes.” To integrate all the actions, the BIM methodology will be used.
Fourth contract with Metro de Santiago
This new contract reinforces Ayesa’s position as a leading consultancy for Metro de Santiago. In 2022, the multinational won the technical inspection for the assembly, testing and commissioning of the systems and equipment for the Line 3 extension and it is currently supervising the civil works of sections 2, 3 and 4 of Line 7.
In addition, the management company is evolving its automation and innovation strategy and has awarded Ayesa a support and infrastructure service contract for its SAP ERP system, with the aim of making the processes and procedures carried out by users more efficient.
In Latin America as a whole, Ayesa has participated in the subways of Bogotá, Panama, Quito, Lima, Mexico City, Monterrey and Santo Domingo, developing its knowledge in areas such as planning, design, management and supervision.
