The Bilbao City Council decided yesterday to extend the period for the finalising of the works to open up the Deusto Canal by three months with a new termination date expected to be March 2017. Council members explained that the delay is due to the establishment of a new safer, environmentally sound and sustainable excavation plan The land involved will now be excavated in three phases instead of in one operation with the construction of a steel wall to delimit the area to avoid water filtering into the extraction zone, which will be carried out by floating dredgers. This change…

This morning, at a meeting presided over by the Mayor of Bilbao, Juan Mari Aburto and the Minister for employment and Social Policy, Angel Toña, the design of the new bridge, which is to join San Igancio to Zorrotzaurre, was presented. The project was designed by the civil engineers, Enrique Elkoroberezibar y Sergio Saiz, of LKS Ingeniería. The bridge will be 75 metres long without supports in the water and will be 28 metres wide. The breakdown of the width is: 6.7 metres for two traffic lanes, 7.0 metres for 2 bus lanes, 2.5 metres for a cycle path and…

The company Jaureguizar has founded ‘Vivezorrozaurre S. Coop.’ the owners’ cooperative, which will build the first development of new homes on Zorrotzaurre. For further information on this operation go to www.vivezorrozaurre.com This first development will occupy two plots in San Ignacio and one in Deusto, with112 social housing units, 117 controlled price units and 131 privately developed units to be built. Building is expected to start in the 3rd quarter of 2016 and to last 30 months.