Comprehensive Maintenance Plan (PMI in Catalan)

Working to ensure that public spaces function properly. We monitor the obsolescence of installations and tend to the busiest spaces to avoid incidents and deterioration. And, of course, we also enjoy the cooperation from the general public in reporting any problematic situation.

The Pla Endreça [Tidying Up Plan] includes the Comprehensive Maintenance Plan for working along these lines. It has a budget of €435 million, which is divided into €255 million for city-wide operations, €80 for operations in the city's districts and €100 million for comprehensive renovation in the districts.

Planned PMI initiatives for 2024

accessibility

Steps and lifts

  • Renovating 54% of the lifts and 24% of the escalators in the city's mountain neighbourhoods.
  • Undertaking operations in 54 installations.
Pavement and signaling

Paving and signage

  • Renovating 550,000 m2 of asphalt pavement.
  • Repainting 35% of horizontal signage.
  • Repainting 3.8 million m2.
Furnishings and infrastructure

Urban furniture and Infrastructures

  • Renovating 14% of all dog play areas.
  • Renovating 17% of children's play areas and 28% of sports circuits.
  • Adapting, stabilising and improving embankments in mountain neighbourhoods.
Undergrounding of overhead lines

Burying overhead cables underground

  • Eliminating 70% of the posts on pavements in the mountain neighbourhoods.
  • Burying the electric cables that have the greatest impact on pedestrian accessibility underground.
Street lighting

Lighting

  • Achieving 100% remote management of street lighting, working towards establishing LED technology for 50% of all street lighting (currently at 28%), as well as planning actions on 3,500 lampposts and the lighting of 174 streets.
  • In 2024, renovating the lighting in 35 spaces or streets.
Sources and groundwater

Fountains and phreatic water

  • Increasing the amount of groundwater available for city consumption by 15%, expanding the groundwater system in order to mitigate the effects of the drought.
  • Renovating 78 ornamental fountains in the city, as well as the Magic Fountain in Montjuïc.
Sewerage

Sewage system

  • Renovating 13 km of the sewer system and building 9 km of new network.
Parcs i jardins

Parks and gardens

  • Renovating 12% of the city's parks and gardens.
Element comuns

Traffic lights

  • Renovating 11% of the city's traffic lights. Taking action on 4,500 traffic lights.

Did you know?

  • 3,000

    Nearly 3,000 overall operations: pavements, parks, signage, street lighting, fountains, etc.

  • €435 million

    of investment over the next 5 years 

  • €100 million

    on comprehensive renovation plans in the city's districts

How we allocate the budget

The Comprehensive Maintenance Plan (PMI) is planned and preventative in nature, aiming to avoid incidents and the deterioration of public spaces. It does not involve redevelopment or changes in current uses. We focus on planned, coordinated and comprehensive preventative renovation of the various elements in public spaces before they break or become obsolete.

We are responsible for the maintenance of elements such as traffic lights, urban furniture, roadway structures, horizontal and vertical signage, pavements, etc.

Ongoing works in 2024

    • Eixample system
    • Montjuïc Paral·lel / Tres Pins system
    • Montjuïc J. Brossa system
    • Can Batlló system
    • Palau Reial / Alfons el Magnànim system
    • Two chlorination operations
    • Carrer del Doctor Bové
    • Monitoring the Magic Fountain
    • Improving 30 children's play areas at 20 locations

  • Stabilising embankments in Sants-Montjuïc: 

    • Pedrera del Mussol
    • Archery field, Fossar de la Pedrera and Recycling centre
    • Sot del Migdia 
    • Font Florida, 43-91 and 93-115
    • Carrer de la Cartoixa
    • Sot de la Masia
    • Sot de l’Estany
    • Sot de la Foixarda

    Stabilising embankments in Nou Barris:

    • Carrer de la Vall d’Ordesa, 36-60
    • Av. del Rasos de Peguera, 56 i 161

    Stabilising embankments in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi:

    • Camí del Pantà
    • Carrer Major del Rectoret
    • Carrer de Madame Butterfly
    • Carrer d’Elisa Moragas i Badia
    • Carrer de Sant Antoni Abat Phase 2 (Carrer de la Cendra – plaça del Pedró) 
    • Interior courtyard of Jardins d’Emma de Barcelona
    • Carrer d’Elkano
    • Carrer de Bordeus
    • Jardins de Keynes
    • Carrer d’Europa Phase 2 (Carrer de Gandesa – Carrer del Doctor Ibáñez)
    • Carrer del Riu de l’Or
    • Carrer de Moragas Phase 1 (Teodora Lamadrid – Folgueroles)
    • Dog play area in the Jardins Doctor Samuel Hahnemann
    • Passatge de Camil Oliveras
    • Jardinets de Gràcia
    • Plaça de Llopis (the area around Carrer d’ Alcántara, 71)
    • Carrer de Can Ros and the area around Plaça del Canòdrom
    • Carrer del Cardenal Tedeschini F1
    • Plaça del Maresme Phase 2 and Carrer del Maresme
    • Carrer d’Alfons el Magnànim (passatge de Prim – carrer de Jaume Fabre – Llull)
    • Passeig de Santa Coloma (avinguda Meridiana-carretera de Ribes) 
    • Via Júlia (plaça de Francesc Layret-Via Favència) 
    • Rambla de Catalunya 
    • Plaça de Karl Marx-Via Favència (carrer de Fenals-ronda de la Guineueta Vella) 
    • Av. Diagonal (junction of Avinguda del Doctor Marañón, Plaça de Pius XII-Carrer de Martí Franqués, Numància-Plaça de Maria Cristina and the seaward side lane between Carrer d’Entença-Plaça de Francesc Macià)
    • Plaça de Tetuan, carrer de Sants i Creu Coberta 
    • Plaça de Sants 
    • Passeig de la Zona Franca 
    • Carrer dels Motors (Metal·lúrgia-Mare de Déu del Port), Carrer del Foc (Passeig de la Zona Franca-Carrer dels Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat), Carrer de l’Alumini (Foc-Alts Forns) and Carrer de l’Acer (Foc-Arnes).
    • Plaça de Lesseps 
    • Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret (Sardenya-Bailèn and Passeig Maragall-Avinguda Meridiana)
    • Via Trajana (rambla de Prim-carrer de Santander)
    • Carrer de la Ciutat d’Asunción (Tucuman-St. Adrià)

  • Road surfacing

    • Plaça del Pla de Palau and Avinguda del Marquès de l’Argentera (Pla de Palau - Passeig de Picasso)
    • Plaça de les Drassanes, Passeig Josep Carner (Plaça de les Drassanes - Plaça Colom) and Passeig de Colom (bus lanes in Plaça Colom – Carrer de la Fusteria)
    • Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta
    • Carrer dels Pescadors 
    • Carrer de la Marina (below Plaça dels Voluntaris)
    • Other minor operations involving repairs and sealing cracks

    Pavement surfacing

    • Pla de Palau, Passeig d’Isabel II, Pas Sota la Muralla, Carrer de la Reina Cristina and Carrer de Llauder (Nucli Antic Sud)
    • Passeig de Colom and Plaça del Duc de Medinaceli (Gòtic Sud)
    • Passeig de Joan de Borbó, Carrer de Pepe Rubianes and other pavements (Barceloneta)
    • Carrer de la Marina (Port Olímpic area)
    • Repairing, cleaning and restoring railings, steps, balustrades, retaining walls, pergolas, benches, chairs and paving on Passeig de Colom, Passeig Joan de Borbó and Passeig Marítim.
    • Carrer de Nàpols (Aragó-Gran Via) 
    • Carrer de Sicília (Aragó-Gran Via)
    • Carrer del Consell de Cent (Nàpols-Sicília)
    • Carrer de la Diputació (Nàpols-Sicília)
    • Plaça dels Jardins de Tòquio 
    • Jardins de la Font dels Ocellets
    • Carrer de Nicaragua (Marquès de Sentmenat-Berlín)
    • Avinguda de Josep Tarradellas (Avinguda de Sarrià-Gelabert)
    • Carrer de Manuel Azaña and Carrer de General Batet
    • Northern pavement of Avinguda Diagonal (Carrer de Numància-Martí i Julià)
    • Jardins de Joan Altisent i Gelabert (Carrer d’Entença and Carrer de Bordeus)
    • Carrer de Josep Irla i Bosch (Gran Via de Carles III-Martí i Julià) and Jardí d’Ignàsia Salvans
    • The steps in Passatge del Gatell
    • Carrer de Muntaner (Via Augusta-Avinguda Diagonal)
    • Carrer de Santa Perpètua
    • Carrer de Pau i Alsina
    • Petanques Coimbra
    • The steps on Carrer de la Murtra
    • Carrer de les Camèlies (Sardenya-Font Castellana)
    • Carrer de Fastenrath (Plaça de la Taxonera-Arenys)
    • Carrer de Jose Millán González (Alexandre Torrelles-Can Baró)
    • Carrer del Baró d’Esponellà
    • Carrer del Doctor Balari i Jovany (Cinca-Sant Adrià)
    • Carrer de Biscaia (Avinguda Meridiana-Carrer de Palència)
    • Carrer dels Bofarull (Espronceda-Felip II)
    • The interior sections of the streets Joan Comorera-Fernando
    • Pessoa-Estefania de Requesens-Cinca
    • The interior sections of the streets Estefania de Requesens-Fernando Pessoa-Valentí Iglesias-Cinca
    • The interior sections of the streets Valentí Iglesias-Fernando Pessoa-Palomar-Cinca
    • Carrer de la Mare de Déu de Lorda (Plaça de la Trinitat-Foradada)
    • Turó de la Trinitat (Plaça de la Trinitat-Ausona)
    • Carrer de la Foradada (Mireia-Ausona)
    • Plaça de la Palmera St.Martí
    • Gates of Parc del Clot
    • Diagonal (Carrer de Prim-Carrer de Llull)
    • Bollards in the Fòrum

Furthermore, we are constantly undertaking:

  • Reparació

    Repairs

    Repairs include unplanned maintenance operations that are carried out when an incident is detected in public spaces. Action is taken to provide a rapid response.

  • Transformació

    Transformations

    These are carried out where there is an intense need for renovation, new uses have to be defined, and it is therefore necessary to redevelop the space.

    When city transformation projects are designed, we take into account the fact that subsequent maintenance should be as effective as possible.