The Public Sector Procurement Platform has been tendering, since last Friday, the works for the transformation of Plaza Pedro Alcántara, with an investment - including tax, amounting to 374,469.62 euros. The construction company that is awarded this official tender will have 18 weeks to complete the work.
The mayoress of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, presented this Thursday the execution project for the urban and landscape transformation of Plaza Pedro Alcántara, charged to the Municipal Investment Plan endowed with 20 million euros, between municipal resources and contributions from other administrations.
The presentation was held in the same Plaza Pedro Alcántara, in the city center, where the mayoress - accompanied by the Councilor for Urban Planning, Eduardo Placeres Reyes, the spokesperson for the PP, María Jesús Tovar, and the Councilor for Citizen Participation and Youth, Eli Merino, explained in detail the characteristics of this project, the result of the ideas competition convened by the City Council from the Urban Planning Area.
The mayoress remarked that "this new square with park and garden will be the first on the island of Lanzarote with sustainable urban drainage, where the irrigation of the new vegetation and existing trees will be watered with rainwater that will be stored in a large cistern to be built with these works, and will be buried under the square".
In addition, the popular mayoress detailed, "this park is in line with providing new shade areas to the capital and will become a meeting point for families as it is an accessible square where the space-city cycle inclusive will prevail".
The landscape transformation of Plaza Alcántara is carried out with the execution of the winning project of the GCMP Resilient Landscapes team, a technical study constituted around the landscape as a meeting point for crossed visions of gardening, agronomy, environmental sciences, architecture and urban planning. The winners and directors of the works are Mercedes Pérez Villalón, with a degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Granada and a Master's degree in Landscaping, Gardening and Public Space, and Germán Camino Martínez, architect from the University of La Coruña, with postgraduate studies in urban renewal and applied sociology.
The mayoress remarked that this work aims to generate an "open, modern environment with the capacity to cover different uses and activities; improve access to the existing square, which is in a state of neglect and deterioration; reduce the presence of vehicles in the area; the new urban furniture and integrated lighting will be taken care of; the capacity to generate shadows, with the vegetation as well as the construction materials, and the whole area will be accessible and adapted to people with reduced mobility, as well as to criteria of space-city cycle inclusive".
The scope of action covers Plaza Pedro Alcántara, the street of the same name, and the streets Marineros Cruz del Mar, and the sections of Francos street within the block defined by the streets Coronel Benz-Tenerife, Alegranza-Río de Oro-Primo de Rivera. This whole area will become pedestrianized, with access for residents and garages in the area.
First garden park in Lanzarote with sustainable urban drainage
This work also includes the execution of an irrigation network independent of the potable water network that will connect to the planned storage tank with the new sustainable drainage network, in a buried manhole that will house the regulation and control valve. The irrigation pipe will be executed in high density polyethylene pipe PEBD, 20mm in diameter, for a maximum working pressure of 3kg/cm2; the pipes will be arranged under a protective sheath consisting of double layer polyethylene pipe of minimum diameter 90mm. In each tree pit there will be a 16mm pipe ring equipped with self-compensating drippers suitable for underground installation, with a nominal flow rate of 2.5 l/h.
Stormwater network (Sustainable Urban Drainage): The stormwater evacuation network consists mainly of three rain gardens or bioretention areas. Its function is to retain and filter the water, at a certain depth, and to evacuate the excess water that occurs from above -0.40m (measured from the surface level of the soil). This depth is necessary to keep the upper layer of the soil drained, in which the root system of the vegetation will develop. The rain gardens will collect the water contributions to three concave areas of approximately 40 cm depth, with a drain at the bottom that conducts the water to the cistern through manholes. The cistern, once its maximum capacity is reached, will direct the effluent through a collector to the existing sewage network. The connection with the collectors will be made through manholes.
Residents can learn about the project up close
The presentation on site has allowed local residents to learn about this urban intervention in a close way, in a new line of the mayoress Astrid Pérez so that citizens know the urban transformation projects of the city where they live. With information panels, technical data, plans and infographics, residents can see how the transformation of Plaza Pedro Alcántara will be, where the City Council has allocated a portion of the Island Cooperation plans of the Cabildo for financing, together with municipal resources.
The mayoress estimated that according to the deadlines in the contracting rules, the works could be completed in the spring of next year, and the start of the works, at the end of this 2021.
