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Eurospare, Lda.

In 2005, SPARE was awarded a contract to supply, assemble, commission and regulate a system of pneumatic gates in the River Tajo, in the municipal district of Abrantes, Portugal. The project encompasses 4 spans: 3 of them with an effective height of 3.20 m and a span of 42.30 m on the anchorings; and the other, used for primary regulation, with an effective height of 1.10 m and a span of 21.50 m. It is the largest system of pneumatic gates of its kind in Europe.

The execution of this project required the SPARE group to set up a Portuguese company with a view to facilitating the hiring of local labour and simplifying certain import and billing procedures. And so EUROSPARE, Lda. was born.

In subsequent years, the potential Portuguese market for such gates, more active and significant than the Spanish market in terms of the development and implementation of projects of this kind, made a decisive contribution to the sustainable development of the newly created EUROSPARE, until it eventually concentrated the Hydraulic Engineering section of the SPARE group. Since 2008, EUROSPARE has run all the pneumatic gate projects in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.

The latest projects, both of which were completed in Portugal, were:

1. River Águeda, (2010), in the town of Águeda, close to Aveiro. A single-span pneumatic gate has been installed, 2.95 metres high with a span of 41.50 metres on the anchorings. The multiple objective of the project is to provide the town with defences against flooding, improve its urban environment and enable the population to enjoy water sports.

2. River Sorraia, (2011), in the town of Coruche, close to Santarem. Two pneumatic gates have been installed with a height of 2.60 metres by 27 metres in length, with an identical purpose.

Currently, in Tegucigalpa (Republic of Honduras), EUROSPARE is installing two identical pneumatic gates with an effective height of 3.50 metres and a span of 31.90 on the anchorings. The gates are used to control water to be used to supply the capital and for use as drinking water. This is the biggest pneumatic system in Central America and one of the biggest projects on the continent.

Abrantes (Portugal), 2013.
Javier Ayala
Technical Director.
Eurospare, Lda.