Bridge Number 6 of the alternate road "Vas" that will connect zone 21 to the Atanasio Tzul road. This project will help to communicate the capital and the municipalities of San Miguel Petapa and Villa Canales. It is a four-lane bridge and 150 meters long. It consists of a three spans bridge. Through the "VAS 6 Bridge" project, Aceros Arquitectónicos won the 2021 Guatemalan Industrial Awards for the best company in the "Innovation" category. This bridge was designed and built by Aceros Arquitectónicos, applying advanced methods and specially designed for the construction of a structure that required a high degree of precision in a very peculiar and challenging space.
This bridge positively impacted the confidence of the organization's work team, the adoption of state-of-the-art methodologies, the use of Guatemalan productive and human resources, and construction processes supervised from design, manufacturing, and erection. Likewise, it positioned the company as an important player in the development of the country's infrastructure.
Challenges and achievements
The biggest challenge was the number of elements to control with Tekla, the BIM process was more precise since the orography is somewhat complicated and the precision of the parts was absolutely necessary to avoid issues in the erection process. We used our BIM knowledge and all the progress was controlled with the model as the core of the project.
Using Tekla software
Since we designed the whole structure in-house, Tekla allowed us to get all the structural design and do the detailing as the bridge needed to be fabricated. We also exported the information straight into our NC machinery to avoid mistakes and we used the model to control our progress,
