Second level over Mexico-Puebla highway

Alga, in cooperation with Freyssinet de Mexico, has been awarded the supply of all the rubber-lead isolators to the Mexican company PINFRA for the construction of the second level over the Mexico-Puebla highway. The viaduct will be approx. 14 km long, and piers height from 7 to 19 m, with 4 carriageways for each track road. Once finished, it is estimated that this job will further increase the development of the industrial and commercial area of the centre and south, south-east of the Country. More than one million and a half persons of the Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco. Tlaxcala, Chiapas, Oaxaca and of the Federal District areas will benefit from the realization of this work.

The supply that Alga and Freyssinet de Mexico are carrying on, is consisting in 676 isolators type LRB of 760 mm and 700 mm diameter. The design has been issued by Alga Technical Dept. and all the dynamic routine tests are successfully under progress at our laboratory ISOLAB.

Type tests in accordance with AASHTO standard have been performed at Eucentre laboratory in Pavia.