“Automagistral-Pivden” built the first cement-concrete road in Bukovyna

Our company is returning to the Chernivtsi region. We worked in Bukovyna at the dawn of the existence of “Automagistral-Pivden” in 2009. They built the bypass road of Chernivtsi, dealt with the liquidation of the consequences of floods. 12 years later, we are working again in our native region and immediately with a strategic, iconic object.

 It’s no secret that with the beginning of the war, the load on checkpoints on the western borders increased significantly. The amount of transport has increased many times.

 President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and European partners of Ukraine initiated the “Open Border” project. The goal is to develop the automobile border infrastructure.

This summer, as part of the presidential initiative, our company carried out a comprehensive modernization of the Korchova-Krakivets point. The throughput capacity of the checkpoint was increased by 50%, and a 1.7-hectare site was built nearby for the storage of large-sized vehicles.

Our second border facility is implemented in Chernivtsi region. This is the section of road T-26-08 to the checkpoint “Krasnoilsk – Vikovu de Sous”.

CPP “Krasnoilsk” is a long building. Its construction began in 2015 as part of a cross-border cooperation grant project, but in 2016 the work was frozen. This year, the facility was finally completed. “Krasnoilsk” has to unload “Porubne – Siret”, until recently the only checkpoint on the border with Romania, provided for the passage of cargo vehicles. The throughput capacity of the new checkpoint is 500 cars per day.

The total length of the overhaul site is almost 28 km. Our company built a 7-kilometer section with a cement concrete surface. Road T-26-08 Storozhynets – checkpoint “Krasnoilsk” appeared more than a hundred years ago, from 1896 to 1900. Our site has remained gravel from the beginning of its existence to this day. The decision to install a cement-concrete coating on this section is due to several reasons. The first is the significant traffic of large-sized cargo transport. The second is a complex terrain, descents, serpentines, which leads to an increase in the load on the surface. The third reason is that it was not necessary to use imported components for the construction of the road. All material is local.

 Not everyone knows about it, but “Automagistral-Pivden” has considerable experience in the construction of cement-concrete roads. In particular, large projects (subcontracted) were implemented in the Poltava and Mykolaiv regions before the war. One cannot fail to mention the construction of the Odesa International Airport airfield complex. The company has 5 cement-concrete factories, modern concrete-placing complexes.

At a distance of approximately 25 km from the repair site, a production base was created in the village of Storozhynets. A Liebher Betomix 4.5B-R/DW concrete mixing plant was mobilized from the Mykolaiv region. The Marini СoldFALT soil mixing plant was relocated from the Lviv region.

The existing road was widened and strengthened. The upper layer of the base consists of 16 cm thick reinforced concrete 0-40 reinforced concrete. The upper layer of the covering is 23 cm thick B25 (M350) cement concrete. The upper layer was placed using a Wirtgen SP-124 concrete placing complex, over the entire width of the carriageway (7 m). In addition to the carriageway, adjacencies and more than 40 entrances to the yards were arranged. In order to have time to open the traffic as soon as possible, the work was carried out in two shifts. 250 employees were employed at the facility. Traffic on the road is already open, but part of the work on the installation of the drainage system remains for next year. This is very important for mountainous terrain. A parking lot will also be built.

We hope that the company’s return to Bukovyna will not be limited to just one project, but will become part of our scaling strategy.