IEME Brazil and LAEDE participated in the Quality Conference – From Compliance to Performance, an event held by ACCIONA, on Tuesday, November 19. The Spanish company is building Line 6 – Orange of the São Paulo subway, a 15.3 km project that will connect the current São Joaquim station, in the central neighborhood of Liberdade, to Pátio Morro Grande, in the northern part of São Paulo.

Line 6 is considered the largest infrastructure project currently under construction in South America and one of the main subway projects in the region. At the event, aimed at ACCIONA employees, Lucas Juliani, coordinator of LAEDE, gave a presentation about the company and explained some of the quality controls performed in the laboratory, which has among its main focuses precisely the safety and durability of subway systems.

Line 6 itself has had services performed by LAEDE. Recently, components of the superstructure of the permanent way (mass-spring system, sleepers, rail fastening, rail welds, among others) were tested.

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IEME Brasil conducts census mapping of the community bordering the works on Line 6 of the São Paulo subway

With 15 stations and 15.3 km in length, the future Line 6 – Orange of the São Paulo subway will connect the neighborhoods of Morro Grande (Northwest zone) and Liberdade (central region), and should transport, according to the concessionaire Linha Uni, 633 thousand people per day. In addition to serving a number of universities and central neighborhoods in the city of São Paulo, the line will significantly support urban mobility in the city, reducing the current travel time between these two points, currently from 1h30 minutes, to just 23 minutes.

Like all subway works, Line 6 required a rigorous study of the route and the investigation of possible obstacles, including human occupation. For this specific situation, the development had, between November 2021 and June 2022, the participation of IEME Brasil, which carried out the census mapping of the community bordering the Line 6 works. influence of the enterprise (residential and non-residential), in order to set up a database to be used by the contracting party.

Among the main activities carried out by IEME for the undertaking were: definition of the radius of influence of the work activities, sealing the properties and elaboration of sealing plans, application of individual research in the properties in the area of influence, critical analysis of research, elaboration of database and consolidated reports of special cases.

IEME worked directly with the population residing in the surrounding areas, distributed in different socioeconomic groups, developed its own methodology to operate in buildings and buildings and maintained constant communication with the population, to resolve doubts regarding the application of the research.

Line 6 – Orange – Stations

Source: Linha Uni