FCC Construcción

The Panamanian Ministry of Health has awarded the contract to design, build, equip and finance the Hospital Luis Chicho Fábrega, in the province of Veraguas, Panama, to FCC. The contract is worth 99.2 million euro and is to be completed in twenty-seven months.

The Ministry of the Natural, Rural and Marine Environment, through Sociedad Estatal Aguas del Duero, has picked FCC Construcción to build the second phase of the Payuelos Lower Canal project in León. The canal is worth 80.8 million euro and is to be completed in 36 months. Half the funds for the job are being provided by the 2007-2013 ERDF Cohesion Fund.

FCC, through its subsidiary in Austria, ALPINE, is lending a hand at the Nussdorf-Debant SOS Children's Village project in East Tyrol, the world's second-largest Children's Village, which is currently undergoing rehabilitation and building twenty-six new units to form part of a family village.

ADM Business School-UNIR (International University of La Rioja) granted FCC Construcción an honourable mention in the Third ADM Business School Environmental Defence Awards.

The company's environmental management system, calls for practices to reduce the intensity of resource use in construction. Because of FCC's efforts in 2009, upward of 31.3 million cubic metres of surplus earth, rocks and rubble were reused.