{"id":5909,"date":"2023-09-06T16:18:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.systra.com\/canada\/news\/a-railway-maintenance-centre-designed-by-systra-in-chile\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T21:13:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T19:13:37","slug":"a-railway-maintenance-centre-designed-by-systra-in-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systra.com\/canada\/news\/a-railway-maintenance-centre-designed-by-systra-in-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"A Railway Maintenance Centre Designed by SYSTRA in Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SYSTRA is continuing to support Chile’s rail revival, working for the national operator EFE (Empresa de Ferrocarriles del Estado). In particular, this involves improving connections between the interior of the country and the capital, such as the modernisation of the Santiago-Chill\u00e1n passenger line, in which our teams were involved until the end of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYSTRA has been chosen to design a new maintenance workshop for the new fleet of trains on this line, in a consortium with the Chilean engineering company JEJ. The workshop will be built close to Chill\u00e1n station in order to offer greater flexibility when repairing Chile’s regional trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The result will be optimised maintenance expenditure, a safer network and greater availability for passengers, as well as a new industrial activity for local development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Location of the future maintenance site with the current station and depot in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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This new assignment for EFE is an excellent signal for SYSTRA. We are becoming one of their main partners for engineering studies and we are strengthening our presence in the country. The integration of our new colleagues from SYSTRA Subterra will also help us to continue our development in Chile.<\/p>\nHerv\u00e9 Laurain, Hispanic America Cluster Director<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A comprehensive project for the renewal of a city<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The future maintenance workshop is fully integrated into the project to revitalise the city centre, which also includes a new museum, a new urban park and renovated avenues and station. The attractiveness of this town of 160,000 inhabitants will be enhanced by the new workshop, which will not only make more trains available, but also faster trains to Santiago (3h40 min compared with 5h). These are major advantages in convincing the 250,000 or so annual passengers to adopt a more sustainable and more efficient form of mobility than buses, which take over 5 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The studies carried out by our teams, and in particular by the modelling manager Mery Delgado, took into account the limited footprint of the workshop, the choice of a building that was aesthetically pleasing while keeping within the budget, and the need to fit into an urban area requiring optimum noise and vibration mitigation, thanks in particular to the team of experts \u00c9ric Augis and Walid Wasmine from SYSTRA France, based in Lyon. I would also like to thank SYSTRA Chile’s systems engineering team for their commitment.<\/p>\nFelipe Silva, Project director, SYSTRA Chile<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>

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The teams were responsible for soil studies (topography, geotechnics, hydrology), preliminary and execution studies in BIM for the infrastructure and rail systems (track, power supply, signalling), workshop equipment and architecture, landscape integration, environmental impact management, functional and technical specifications, optimisation of construction and operating costs, and the workshop maintenance plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These studies were submitted at the end of 2022 for a construction tender currently being awarded by EFE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The centre as it will look when completed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Chile’s rail boom<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In 2019, the Chilean authorities launched an ambitious plan: Chile sobre rieles, Chile on the rails, which intends to triple the country\u2019s rail capacity by 2027. SYSTRA is involved in this project, which has been underway in Chile for several years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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