STG completes installation of the Krasnogorsk overpass span

Stroytransgaz has completed to install the span on the right side of the Krasnogorsk overpass crossing the Moscow Railway’s Riga railroad as part of the construction of the first start-up facility of the multi-level interchange at the junction of Volokolamskoye Highway and Ilyinskoye Highway. The span rests on six piers, which erection required 2,850 MT of structural steel and 7,400 cu.m of concrete.

“The contractor completed the installation operations as scheduled. To construct the site, around 250 people and 35 units of equipment were used. In Q4 2018, major construction and installation works will have been completed at the overpass site, and normal traffic will be opened, unjamming this hub,” noted Igor Treskov, Moscow Region Minister of Transport and Road Infrastructure.

Once the winter is over, installation of the overpass bridge deck and barriers and guardrails totalling 358 meters in length will start. Also, relocation of utilities is continuing and operations to straighten the Ban’ka river bed are underway as part of the first start-up package.

“At the same time, the second start-up facility is being constructed, including erection of the left side of the overpass. We have installed the piers for the structure and started to prefabricate structural steel modules of the span,” said Pyotr Ponomaryov, Project Director of STG.

“The Krasnogorsk Interchange project is being implemented in three phases. The contract for the construction of the 1^st start-up facility was signed in 2015, that for 2^nd and 3^rd start-up facilities was signed in 2017. All the three sections are expected to be complete in 2019,” noted Vladimir Loktev, acting Director of the Moscow Region Road Construction Administration.

Just to remind you, built at these three phases will be the left side of the overpass on the main course of the Volokolamskoye Highway over the Riga railroad, the Ban’ka bridge, overpass at the ramp exiting the Volokolamskoye Highway to the Ilyinskoye Highway, and a turnaround flyover on the Volokolamskoye Highway within Moscow City limits.

The interchange will have a length of about 9km, six lanes going from the Volokolamskoe Highway, four lanes going from the Ilyinskoe Highway and two more lanes from the Penyaginskoe Highway. Total traffic capacity of the new facility will exceed 80,000 vehicles per day. The customer is the Road Construction Administration controlled by Moscow Region Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development.