Santiago Metro awards Ayesa Ingeniería the contract to provide specialist consultancy services for Line 9
This new milestone comes on top of the contracts for supervising the systems for the extension of Line 3 and the civil works for several sections of Line 7.
The new route will cover 27 kilometres and benefit two million citizens, who will see a significant reduction in their 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 the specialised consultancy (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, covering 149 kilometres. Metro de Santiago has committed to 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 USD 2.733 billion.
Ayesa has extensive experience in mass transport systems, and in this new contract it will provide engineering management consulting services, counterpart engineering, environmental and community relations consulting, works coordination, service change coordination and management, expropriation and easement management, and project planning and control.
The future Line 9 will be entirely underground and will add 27 kilometres to the current network. It will run through the municipalities of Recoleta, Santiago, San Miguel, San Joaquín and La Granja, San Ramón, La Pintana and Puente Alto, benefiting two million inhabitants who will see a significant reduction in travel times.
It will be the first metro line in Santiago to have a quadruple connection: the Cal y Canto station will connect with lines 2, 7 and 3, and will also have six connections in total, relieving congestion on Line 4 and offering a direct route to the centre of the capital.
The new route will include 19 stations, as well as workshops and depots. ‘In order to integrate the Line 9 works with the rest of the existing infrastructure, some stations must be built at depths of more than 40 metres, which requires innovative solutions. We have to efficiently design the vertical transport of passengers between Line 9, the surface and the levels of other interchange stations, all of which have massive transfer volumes,’ explains Mariluz Ramírez, director of Transport LATAM at Ayesa. BIM methodology will be used to integrate all the actions.
Fourth contract with Metro de Santiago
This new contract reinforces Ayesa’s position as a leading consultant for Metro de Santiago. In 2022, the multinational won the technical inspection contract for the assembly, testing and commissioning of the systems and equipment for the extension of Line 3. It is currently supervising the civil works for 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.
Across Latin America, Ayesa has participated in the metro systems of Bogotá, Panama City, Quito, Lima, Mexico City, Monterrey and Santo Domingo, developing its expertise in areas such as planning, design, management and supervision.
