Apoyo Técnico a La Secretaría De Infraestructura y La Oficina De Gestión Del Riesgo De Desastres

Abstract

During the internship at the Infrastructure Secretariat of the Municipality of Tunja, various activities focused on developing the urban and rural road inventory of the municipality of Tunja as a strategic tool for diagnosing, planning, and prioritizing road network interventions. This contributed to the city's achievement of its 2024-2027 Territorial Development Plan and supported the activities of the Municipal Disaster Risk Management Office. The activities included field visits to different neighborhoods in the city to inspect the actual conditions of the road network, which allowed for the collection of data on road deterioration, photography, reporting, and data transcription into Excel spreadsheets. The creation of km/h (miles) in Google Earth was used to determine the amount of data collected in kilometers. This led to the city achieving its goal of 174 km of inventoried urban roads out of the approximately 343.5 km of roads in the city of Tunja. The Infrastructure Secretariat follows the technical parameters established by the National Road Institute (INVÍAS) and the relevant environmental legislation for the design, development, and maintenance of the municipal road network. Similarly, with regard to risk management, the intern carried out various activities, such as technical visits to homes affected by fires or floods, which caused structural damage, and participation in PMUs (unified command posts) where human and structural safety inspections of city events were conducted, as well as reviewing contingency plans for these events. Overall, the experience gained during the internship contributed very positively to the intern's professional development and had a positive impact. This meant that during the last month of the internship, the Infrastructure Secretariat considered him as a contractor to provide services as a technologist to support the Territorial Infrastructure Secretariat in conducting a road inventory for the municipality of Tunja.