The Federation of Public Works of the Province of Alicante (FOPA) has awarded its 2009 annual awards, which have fall on the new Avenida de Denia, in the city of Alicante and the new promenade of the Playa de Poniente in Benidorm. The Avenida de Denia work is one built by the UTE Rover Alcisa -  Dragados. The award was collected, by Alfredro Rodriguez, chairman of the Rover Alcisa Group. The event, which attracted a wide representation of the industry sector in the province, was chaired by the President of the Generalitat Valenciana, Francisco Camps.

The event, besides the President of the Generalitat Valenciana, Francisco Camps, was also attended by the Minister of Infrastructure, Mario Flores, the Minister of town planning, housing and environment, Juan Cotino, the sub-delegated of the Government in Alicante, Encarna Llinares, the Mayor of Alicante, Sonia Castedo, the president of Coepa , Rafa Martinez, and the President of the Federation of Public Works of Alicante, Manuel Pelaez among others. The action in Dénia Avenue, sponsored by the Department of Infrastructure and executed by UTE – Rover Alcisa Dragados, was valued the significant improvement that has led the work on the image towards the access to the city of Alicante.

Traffic congestion.

The project, designed by Sercal and whose promoter has been the Department of Infrastructure, competed until the final variant of Alcoy, in the A-7.
The work has served to relieve the traffic between the Boulevard Pla and the Vistahermosa link of the A-70. The award for the environmental integration was for the avenue of  Poniente in Benidorm. The project involves the conversion of the north access in the urban road to Alicante in the section covered by the Goteta and the A-7 over a length of over 3.5 km.

The Avenida de Denia had no sidewalks in many places and had two lanes in each direction, separated by a continuous line, with problems of congestion at certain times.




The proposed solution consists in the complete development of that avenue under the Special Plan drawn up by the city of Alicante, with sidewalks running along its length, lighting and planting of three alignments of trees in order to provide the path with the urban image that corresponds to the entry of a large city, solving traffic problems by widening to three lanes in each way in some sections and four in other and the construction of three underpasses to resolve the most contentious points:

Improvements made
First on the Road Park, which extends the area covered to meet future traffic problems when fully completed such Road Park.
The second in the Gran Via
The third cross to the Avenue of Denia, in the Boulevard Pla.

The work was completed with the implementation, replacement and improvement of the sewer system, drinking water and other urban services, with the installation of high quality lighting.

The infrastructure works of Mother Teresa of Calcutta Street are also included , executing earthmoving, paving, drainage, retaining walls, landscaping and drip irrigation, street lighting and road signs. In order not to take very steep slopes, given the steepness of the path elevation existing identifies some major clearing, clearings also require masonry wall coverings, do not neglect the aesthetic integration of the new scenic road with the slope of the Serra Grossa.

The planned investment in the execution of the works is EUR 33,268,810.18 which is to add 16 million euros in the expropriation. Of this amount of expropriations over 1 million euros is provided by the City Council and the rest by the Generalitat Valenciana.