Toto Costruzioni Generali wins a new €40 million contract for a section of the Picente Motorway
The group will build the new Amatrice bypass, a work included in the post-earthquake reconstruction plan
Chieti, June 15, 2023. Toto Costruzioni Generali has been awarded a new contract in Lazio worth a total of about 40 million euros for the design and construction activities of Lot 2 on SS 260 Picente, a variant that will allow car traffic to bypass Amatrice, avoiding transit through the new town. The work, planned by the commissarial structure for post-earthquake reconstruction, was awarded through Anas. The new road section, with a total length of 2.6 kilometers, includes the construction of two traffic circles for the junction with the current route of SS 260, while the rest of the route is mainly viaducted crossing the valley of the Castellano stream.
It is an innovative project, in an area affected by post-earthquake reconstruction, with special attention devoted to sustainability criteria, with the intention of minimizing the landscape impact of the new works, built according to the most advanced earthquake-resistant techniques.
The contract schedule includes drafting the executive design by December 2023 and starting work by early 2024, with an estimated duration of about two years. The company expects to employ more than 100 resources at the construction site, including direct and induced labor, with undoubted positive spin-offs for the area.
“This is a contract we are particularly proud of because of its high symbolic value for the territory and the company,” said Gianluca Cangemi, Central Director of Toto Costruzioni Generali. “For us, it constitutes a return to the Statale Picente, where work on Lot 4, which crosses the municipal territories of Montereale and Capitignano with a tunnel of more than 1,000 meters, a viaduct and three bridges, is nearing completion, also following the imminent approval of a variant appraisal by the client ANAS.”
SS 260, which connects L’Aquila with Amatrice and the centers most affected by the recent earthquakes with Rome and the Adriatic coast, through its interconnection with the Salaria, has been redesigned to minimize impacts on the landscape and the road system of the municipalities it touches.