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 Infrastructure networks
In the 2004-2007 period, 22@Barcelona will have invested over 84 million Euro in the Special Infrastructure Plan, with a view to refurbishing 50% of the streets of the old industrial areas of Poblenou. Some of the most significant work currently under way includes:
Electricity: Thanks to the agreements signed previously with the electric company allowing for the renovation of the entire network, renovations are underway and a new substation has been constructed to supply the whole area.
Centralised climate control: The supply from the Fòrum Station to the whole of the Llull-Pujades Llevant PERI (Special Pan for Internal Refurbishment) area has been resolved and the tender to supply the Audiovisual Campus and Central Park. Supply to the remainder of the 22@Barcelona area will be developed progressively. On the other hand, the 22@Barcelona Centralised Climate Control Project received the Good Climate Practices Award given by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) through the Spanish Network of Pro-Climate Cities.
Gas supply: The existing grid is being extended, up-graded and enhanced.
Solid urban waste: The project and construction of two pneumatic waste collection stations (construction has already begun on one of them) and the project for the corresponding networks have been awarded. At the same time the pneumatic waste collection networks for the four Poblenou stations are under construction, and the construction of a selective waste collection green point and cleaning park have been provided for.
Water: The existing network is also being strengthened and improved.
Telecommunications: New fibre optic cable telecommunications networks are under construction. Likewise the sites for the radio communications (mobile telephony) aerials have been decided upon for those areas with approved plans.
Public space and mobility: The roadway network is being constructed following a hierarchy that establishes a series of primary streets as the main hubs of mobility and secondary streets for local traffic. The want of parking space is being resolved and new areas for loading and unloading established. All the traffic control systems and street lighting is being renewed and improved. New cycle lanes have been defined and constructed. Land has been reserved for the extension of the FGC (Ferrocarrils de la Generlaitat) network and new concourses opened at the Metro stations.
Re-urbanisation of streets
The deployment of the PEI is based on the idea of acting ahead of the construction process, in order to incentivate the locating of new production activities in the area. It must however, of course, be done in coordination with the technical requirements of the development programme and this in turn has led to the definition of two kinds of building work: structural and derivate: - The structural work represents 30% of the total and constitutes the “backbone” of the networks that structure the territory. The work is executed regardless of the development of real estate projects and thus guarantees that all the utilities and services are readily available to any new developments undertaken. At worst, they will be deployed apace of the developments under construction. Priority has been given to all the work required for the more “mature” areas in which the new developments have been programmed or are in advanced stages of programming. To date, 65% of the work has been concluded and the remainder is scheduled to be completed by year end 2008.
- The derivative work represents the remaining 70%, and will be carried out apace of real estate development. Such work basically consists of the urbanisation of the streets surrounding the blocks or buildings under transformation and is aimed at connecting them to the structural networks.
Since the approval of the 22@Barcelona project, many projects have been drafted: - 35 urbanisation and infrastructure projects have been either completed or are currently being executed, representing 10.760 metres of street urbanised, equivalent to a total surface area of 270.845 m2 of urbanised streets.
- 3 infrastructure projects have been completed or are currently being executed, representing 4,841 metres of new electricity or telecommunications galleries.
- 24 urbanisation projects for the urbanisation of the free spaces in the building surroundings.
To see the urbanization and infraestructures projects that were approved in May 2008, click here. |
Urbanization and infraestructures 
