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The Department of Public Works has started work this morning the emergency rehabilitation of the Old Bridge, after landslides occurred a few weeks ago and after a favorable report from the Directorate General of Cultural Assets received.
Thus, the draft municipal technicians proposes immediate action for the recovery and rehabilitation of the damages caused.
Once carried out this work, a draft comprehensive reform of the entire bridge will also have to be approved by the Ministry of Culture will be held.
From tomorrow, it will be made join intense cleaning of the surfaces of the items affected by landslides, check for damage and clean up more parts for a perfect fit new replacement stones.
Then, a carbon fiber fabric is placed to reinforce all the affected joint and the flexibility of this material allows the casing elements of complex shape.
Besides high strength self-leveling mortar will spread and loosened stones and limestone rocks stalls will be placed.
To anchor the affected masonry stainless steel rods will be used and a metal mesh is placed in an area of ​​25 square meters that will hold the assembly and function.
These emergency works have been authorized by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture, and with them are intended to weaken the bridge will not continue while protecting the detached ashlar.
Once these immediate actions, project implementation will be made to ensure and strengthen the bridge "maintaining the original architectural elements with their characteristics, and the level of comprehensive protection for their relevance and preserving its monumental character, without changing its point compositional and formal view, preserving its structural unit ", as the report of the Directorate General for Cultural Property.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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