Through solutions based on the analysis of satellite photos and machine learning models, it is possible to optimize the process of identifying the best land uses and analyze the areas where a construction project will be developed with a high level of detail, in order to find the optimal location and minimize investment risks.
The accelerated growth in the availability of data and the solutions and technologies being developed to take advantage of it is directly impacting all industries, and the real estate and construction industry is no exception.
Using advanced technology applied to the extraction and processing of large volumes of data, it is possible to obtain the necessary information to evaluate whether a new product, service or brand will be accepted when it begins to compete in a specific market.
Companies that intend to compete in a new market always ask themselves the following question: How much acceptance will our new product, service or brand have?
The detailed engineering and technical, economic, environmental and risk assessment studies for the four-lane extension project of the CA-02 Oriente stretch from Escuintla to the RN-16 fork, Chiquimulilla, Santa Rosa, are being tendered in Guatemala.
Guatemala Ministry of Communications Purchase 10787097:
"The winning Consultant will be in charge and responsible for elaborating the horizontal and vertical geometric design, of all the characteristics and specifications, adapting as much as possible to the existing alignment. If this alignment complies with the design norms, protection works must be considered to reduce the risk to which the project object of study will be submitted in the operation stage.
EY Law and Logit Engenharia are two of the seven companies that submitted bids in Guatemala to carry out the advanced engineering study for the North-South Axis passenger Interconnection and Urban Rail Transport project in the country's capital.
On October 1, financial bids were opened in the tender process to award the advanced engineering study for the Metroriel project.
Identifying the best areas to invest in, knowing what type of property is in demand in each area, whether you are looking for more rentals or sales, homes or offices, or in which segments of the population there is more demand for each type of property, is part of what can now be analyzed using modern Big Data techniques.
The real estate market is not alien to the new reality focused on analyzing large volumes of information and making business decisions based on data.
The National Agency of Alliances for the Development of Economic Infrastructure tenders the pre-feasibility study of the Underground Metro of Guatemala City.
Guatemala Government Purchase 10262253:
"The general purpose of the consultancy is to analyze the feasibility of implementing an Integrated Mass Public Transport System for the East-West Axis of the Metropolitan Area of Guatemala City, at the pre-feasibility level, which articulates in an integral way, with the current and future mobility dynamics, the existing and planned transport offer in the coming years, as well as with the projected urban development plans and that allows institutional decisions regarding the project to be made.
In the next few days it is planned to publish the bases of the pre-feasibility study for the construction of an underground metro in Guatemala City.
After being informed in November 2018 of the proposal to develop a metro that would connect in its initial phase the municipality of Mixco with Zone 15 of the capital, which will require an estimated investment of $700 million, now announces the start of procedures to conduct feasibility studies.
In a new attempt, the authorities of the Regional Electricity Market announced the beginning of the feasibility study for the creation of a market through which electricity can be commercialized between Central America and the North American country.
Currently, Guatemala is the only country in the Northern Triangle that directly commercializes energy with counterparts in the Mexican market.
In the first quarter of the year, countries in the region imported $81 million worth of electrical transformers, registering an increase of 9% compared to the amount reported in the same period in 2017.
Figures from the information system on the Market for Transformers and Electric Converters and Reactor Coils in Central America, compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graph"]
In Guatemala, a tender is being launched for detailed engineering studies and technical, economic and environmental evaluation for the highway project of the Sayaxché highway in Petén.
Guatemala Government Purchase 7476884:
"The services consist of carrying out the detailed engineering study and carrying out the technical, economic, environmental and risk assessments for the project: Road Construction, Libramiento Sayaxché, RD PET-11, Petén.
The Latin American Development Bank is calling for expressions of interest to carry out a feasibility study on the public transport system in the center of Panama City.
Public Purchase LAIF 202061471:
"The services which are the object of this invitation consist of carrying out the activities that are necessary to develop a Feasibility Study on the Public Transportation System of Panama City Center, which must contain, as a minimum, the following: proposal of a collective public transport system consisting of a tram as a structuring element and buses (or other modes) that feed and complement the former, for the city center.
A tender is being launched for field works for the validation of the study of "Road interconnection and urban rail passenger transport north-south axis in Guatemala City."
Guatemala Government Purchase 6988660:
"The objectives of the consultancy required are the following:
The Guatemalan government has announced that in two weeks it will publish the tender documents for the feasibility study and master plan to build a Convention District.
A year after the government's interest in developing a large convention center in the capital was announced for the first time, the project has been brought back into the limelight.
Between $950,000 and $1.3 million are the offers put forward by four consortiums of consultants in the tender to carry out a feasibility study for modernization of the airport.
Companies from the United States, Colombia and Mexico that make up the consortiums that presented their proposals in the tender to carry out the feasibility study: "Modernization, Efficiency and Security of the International Airport of Aurora".
The National Competitiveness Program in Guatemala is once again tendering the feasibility study for the modernization of La Aurora International Airport.
After theaforementioned process was canceledby the National Competitiveness Program (Pronacom), on April 7 a request for proposals for a new competition was published on Guatecompras.