The Transportation Infrastructure Planning Unit (UPIT), together with the National Highway Institute (INVIAS), presented today in a Seminar aimed at territorial entities and transportation infrastructure contractors in the country, the Type of Project Cost Calculator Transportation Infrastructure, a digital tool that seeks to facilitate the planning and visualization of direct reference costs for infrastructure works on secondary or tertiary roads throughout the national territory.
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The objective of this digital development is provide a tool for the projection of budgets for typical works on secondary or tertiary roads in the country, based on the INVIAS Regionalized Unit Price Analysis. This tool allows territorial entities and parties interested in the subject to budget and compare costs by region and type of work, adjusting to local needs and improving the planning processes of transportation infrastructure projects on secondary or tertiary roads. .
“From the UPIT, in collaboration with INVIAS and the National Planning Department, we held several work tables to have the inputs and develop this digital tool that seeks to offer an effective solution to territorial entities and interested parties for the projection of Typical Works costs for secondary or tertiary roads, especially in the pre-feasibility stage of the projects. With the Transportation Infrastructure Type Project Cost Calculator, we seek to streamline the formulation and design tasks of road projects, achieving significant savings in costs and time when planning a budget,” said Martha Constanza Coronado Fajardo, general director of UPIT.
Carolina Barbanti Mansilla, deputy general director of INVIAS stated: “We integrate to offer tools that allow better planning of road infrastructure projects in relation to the publications of the Analysis of Regionalized Unit Prices by INVIAS, which present a semi-annual update, which includes the alternatives of update taking into account market quotes, current contract prices, prices from nearby provinces, historical INVIAS prices indexed to present value and prices of similar inputs, in addition to making a comparison of prices depending on the type and location of the work, to obtain direct reference costs”.
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The Transportation Infrastructure Type Project Cost Calculator transforms project planning for secondary or tertiary roads and allows you to view direct reference costs for transportation infrastructure works on this type of road, such as:
• Sewers
• Fins
• Bates
• Box culvert
• Gutters
• Gabions
• Retaining walls
• Footprint plates
• Bridges of different spans
It is worth noting that standard projects are project models that present standard activities for alternative solutions to common problems. They have basic aspects for their implementation, such as designs, plans, technical specifications, budget and execution schedules.
During the event, the Ministry of Transportation presented its institutional offer aimed at supporting municipalities in the formulation and presentation of projects before the General Royalties System.
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“With the General Royalties System, we seek from the Ministry of Transportation to crystallize works and projects for the social, economic and environmental development of territorial entities. We focus our actions on supporting territorial entities in their efforts to improve connectivity and guarantee walkability between municipalities, promoting projects that promote the growth of the most remote regions of our country. In this way, we advance in working groups accompanying the structuring of projects in the sector, and compliance with the requirements for the presentation of road infrastructure projects to the various instances of approval of the resources of the General Royalties System,” indicated the Vice Minister of Infrastructure, Jorge Enrique Ramírez.
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