TEKIA and Road tunnel safety

Tunnel safety is one of TEKIA’s core activities since the company was founded in 1998. We developed the first operating manuals in line with the Spanish regulations, and have worked since then in over 600 tunnels in Spain and other countries (Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ireland, Norway, Algeria, Egypt, etc.).

TEKIA’s multidisciplinary team of experts is made up of engineers who specialize in the use and upkeep of tunnel safety equipment (evacuation, power, lighting, ventilation, fire protection, access control, surveillance, communications, etc.) and are vastly experienced in all the stages involved in tunnel engineering: planning, design, building, commissioning and operation.

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The road tunnel safety project

Helping determine public tunnel safety policies, including the necessary regulations.

Risk assesment and safety reports.

Designing facility projects and adapting tunnels to current regulations.

Facility project design, tunnel adaptation to current regulations.

Sizing, operational design and commissioning of tunnel ventilation systems (algorithms, aerodynamic testing, hot gas testing).
Auditing existing systems.

SOME RELEVANT PROJECTS

Drafting of the security and traffic management project and preparation of the computer incident manager for the new Calle 30 in Madrid (Spain)

Design of installation and operation projects, and implementation of a computer incident manager for the 61 tunnels of the Durango-Mazatlan Highway (Mexico)

Projects to improve energy savings and efficiency in tunnels.

Inspection and Safety Body since 2004 in more than 400 highway tunnels and road networks throughout Spain.

Drafting of the operating manual, training of operating personnel and direction of the operation at the entry into service of the Plaza de Les Glòries tunnel (957 m), Barcelona

Comprehensive maintenance and conservation service for the Barcelona ring roads (Spain)

Projects to adapt tunnels to Royal Decree 635/2006 and/or European Directive 2004/54/EC.

Drafting of the construction project (Phase III Design) for the ventilation of the Toyo Tunnel (9.8 km), the longest bidirectional road tunnel in Colombia