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Other adjudications: 116 homes, (98 individual and 18 terraced) club house, exteriors and landscaping in the "La Coja" farm in Benahavis (Málaga), for the promoter Tidjicka. The homes, with 260 m², are equipped with domestic appliances, hydro massage baths, individual lifts, hearth, radiant floor heating, air conditioning, emergency lights, solar panels and telecommunications. 226 homes in "La Tenería", Pinto (Madrid), for Realia. The built-up area is some 40,000 m² and the foundations include the building of 31,000 m of prefabricated piling. 199 homes For the Tarrasa Municipal Housing Company, for €15.1 million, arranged in two U-shaped blocks of up to six storeys above ground. 138 homes and landscaping in PERI "Fundición Caetano", Camas (Seville) for the Galia group. The built-up area is some 20,000 m² with 6,000 m² of landscaping including swimming pool, paddle court, dressing rooms and gardens. Northern end of the Ramón de Carranza stadium in Cádiz for the city council, for €13.2 million. The area under the grandstands will be used as offices and shops. FCC has built various previous phases. New marina in Muelle dels Alfacs, Port of San Carlos de la Rapita (Tarragona), for Marina Sant Carlos, for €12.9 million. Includes dredging, fixed approaches, services networks, paving and decoration of the environment. "Els Costals" cultural centre with auditorium and library in Castellbisbal (Barcelona) for the city council, for €10.5 million. The work includes the cultural equipment consisting of a two-storey library, with consultation, reading, children’s and multi-use rooms, and auditorium with 384 seats, a multi-use room and other spaces such as a store, parking with 92 places and cafeteria.

Estate at the air cargo centre at Madrid - Barajas airport

FCC Construcción has been adjudicated the work of landscaping the air cargo centre, southern area, of the Madrid – Barajas airport for Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA), part of the Ministry for Development.

It involves building an estate for industrial and commercial use in the southern area of the airport, next to the end of the old 18/36 runway, no longer used by aircraft and thus allowing the building of the necessary buildings.
The area of the sector is 43 Ha with access from the recently-built N-II service road.

The budget for the work is €16.7 million and it is scheduled to take 11 months.

Cáceres hospital

FCC Construcción will build the new Cáceres hospital for the Department of Health and Consumer Affairs of the Government of Extremadura, in a joint venture with two local companies.

The building has two basements, a ground floor for the installations for outpatients, operating theatres, intensive care and reception and another four stories in the shape of a comb for wards.

The foundations consist of shoes and the structure is of concrete with a grid structure, using a metal structure in some areas due to the size of the building

The work includes the installations for plumbing, electricity with photoelectric panels, air-conditioning, lifts, escalators, medical gases, fuel gases, access control and technical control.

The budget for the work is €47.3 million and the timetable is 32 months.

La Plana motorway, Castellón

The government of Valencia has adjudicated the widening of the La Pobla Tornesa-Vilanova d´Alcolea (airport) section of the La Plana motorway in Castellón to FCC in a joint venture with a local company.

The work consists of widening 10 km of the current route to form two carriageways, 7 m wide, with outer hard shoulders of 2.5 m and interior shoulders 1.50 m.

The central reservation has a constant width of 12 m. There are service roads 4 and 5 m wide and cattle tracks 4 m wide. The work also includes the building of 1 km of new route which will form the Cabanes bypass.

In total, five junctions, nine girder bridges and six frame bridges will be built.

The budget is €34.6 million and payments will be made by the total price payment method (German method).

The timetable is 12 months.

Nacional

• National Marine Archaeological Museum (Cartagena)

• Renovation work to the Simancas Archive (Valladolid)

• 2nd phase, Azucenas Dock, Port of Motril (Granada)

• Igualada hospital (Barcelona)

• Geography and History Faculty, Barcelona University

• Parking and landscaping, Lluis Company Square, Tarrasa (Barcelona)

The Minister of Culture visits the site of the National Marine Archaeological Museum in Cartagena

The Minister of Culture, Carmen Calvo, visited the site of the new National Marine Archaeological Museum and National Underwater Research Centre in Cartagena on 19 February. The Minister inspected the new installations accompanied by the architect of the project, Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, the General Director for Fine Arts, Julián Martínez, the government representative, Ángel González, the director of the National Museum, Rafael Azúar, and the Socialist Party candidate for the mayor of Cartagena, Ignacio Segado.

Carmen Calvo described the purpose of the museum as the protection, rescue and upkeep of the underwater heritage and praised the work of the architect who, she stated, had worked intelligently to make the building a window onto the sea.

The new museum, built by FCC, is located on the Alfonso XII dock and has a total built up surface area of 6,000 m², of which 3,600 m² are at ground level, and two buildings connected by the basement housing the permanent collection, visitor reception, a meeting room and stores and personnel areas.

The first of the buildings, with an irregular plan of some 725 m², is basically hollow and acts as a skylight to illuminate the permanent exhibition area.

As well as the temporary exhibitions room, the other building contains a laboratory, working area for restorers, library and offices area for management and administration.

The museum’s exhibitions area occupies an area of 2,100 m² of which 1,600 m² is to be used for the permanent exhibition and 500 m² for temporary exhibitions. It also has 1,000 m² for conserving the museum’s collection and for the National Underwater Archaeological Research Centre.

The work, now in its final phase, will be inaugurated within a year.

The Minister of Culture visits the site of the Simancas general archive

The Minister of Culture, Carmen Calvo, visited the site of the work of the renovation of the Simancas general archive on 24 January. The Minister was accompanied during her visit by the General Director of Books, Archives and Libraries, Rogelio Blanco, the technical secretary of the Infrastructures and Equipment Division of the Ministry of Culture, César López, and the architect and site director, Mário Pírez.

The Simancas General Archive is undergoing renovation to modernise its installations, rearrange its working areas and gain space for depositing documents. The building has also been adapted to the current interest in historical research to encourage the integration between the digitising of documents and traditional archiving methods.

The renovation work has been carried out in two phases. The first phase freed up interior space in the archive that was occupied by the documentary resources that had outgrown the storage capacity. The end of this first phase allowed the work on the rest of the building since the archives were moved to their new and final place.

The work in the second phase, which has practically ended, will allow a greater number of researchers to be attended personally from the archival point of view as well as freeing up part of the archive’s interior activity given that the prior research work and consultation of the availability of the documents has moved from the current main building to the new exterior promotion and publishing building.

Once the second phase has finished, the archive will have a built up surface area of 10,859 m² of which 9,072 are in the main building and the remaining 1,787 are in the exterior promotion and publishing building.

Inauguration of the second phase of the enlargement work to the Azucenas dock in the Port of Motril, Granada.

The Minister for Development, Magdalena Álvarez, inaugurated the work of enlarging the Azucenas dock in the Port of Motril (second phase) in Granada on 15 January.

The undertaking of the second phase, the Azucenas dock, ends the process of building the new dock in the Port of Motril that FCC has carried out entirely and that includes the work of extending the Western Dock, counter dock and the Azucenas dock, carried out in two phases.

The work in this second phase increased the lengths of the available docks as well as giving the port a dock with a greater draft (cemented at the -14 m level) and a dock and entrance canal dredged to the -12 m level together with the access canal so that, as well as providing sufficient draft for the manoeuvring and operation of ships, the necessary material was obtained for the esplanade filling.cceso, de forma que además de proporcionar calados suficientes para las maniobras y la operación de buques, se obtiene el material necesario para el relleno de la explanada.

The Azucenas dock is more than 600 m long and consists of a vertical dock of prefabricated reinforced concrete caissons cemented at the -14 m level. The second phase involved the building of 312 m of dock consisting of 12 caissons 31.10 m long, a beam of 13.60 m and 15 m high.

A 27.20 m wide ro-ro ramp was also built at the end next to the fishing port, built of caissons of similar features to those described above, arranged across the alignment.

The work was complemented with a caisson located at the end of the counter dock to increase its length by 33.75 m.

New Igualada hospital

FCC has built the new Igualada hospital for the Consorci Sanitari de L’Anoia with a total built up area of 28,000 m2 on an irregular site of 32,000 m² provided by the city council.

The hospital was designed by the architect Emili Donato Folch and has a capacity of 287 beds (conventional + social + intensive care + day hospital).

The building is in the shape of a cross with the longer side measuring some 173x60 m and is divided into seven modules connected by a corridor and separated by open patios on the façade which form the ground floor. Perpendicular to these there is another arm formed of two modules of ground floor and three stories, 105x18 m, joined in the centre by a communications hub.

The basement, ground and first floors contain the hospital’s general services (outpatients, operating theatres, offices, etc) and the two upper floors of the rotated four-level section contain the 134 beds.

The work includes complete general installations, medical gases, air conditioning and 20 lifts without machine rooms.

Termination of the work on the geography and history faculty in Barcelona

Work on the geography, history and philosophy faculty at Barcelona University ended in January. The work started in 1999 and ended in September 2006 for the start of the academic year, being completed in January 2007 with landscaping work.

The work involved building seven buildings to house the above-mentioned faculty and landscaping the interior patio formed by them.

The first phase involved earth moving, foundations and the structure of the first two buildings, completed with the building of the façades of reinforced concrete walls and support beams, also of reinforced concrete, built on site, a structure of pre-slabs and compression layer.

The foundations for the rest of the buildings were based on screen walls 45 cm thick and 10 m deep with an area of 8,600 m² and façades based on reinforced concrete walls forming the window openings with a surface area of 23,250 m². An inverted roof was built based on cellular concrete, a layer of mortar and geotextile sheet, 115 m².

The walls are built of a covering of ribbed metal plates and the façade of a metal pediment 1.5 m high and exterior rendering to form a ventilated facade with limestone as the substructure supporting the self-supporting aluminium profile. Glazed metalwork was used on the basement floor and aluminium in windows and glazed curtain walls.

The final phase involved landscaping the interior patio formed by the buildings, with containing wall of reinforced concrete in the sunken square and a reinforced concrete walkway on the square.

Termination of parking and landscaping work in the Lluis Companys Square in Terrassa

The Mayor of Terrassa, Pere Navarro, inaugurated the underground parking and landscaping of the new Lluís Companys Square in Terrasa on 9 September. The parking has two underground floors with a total of 286 places. The first floor is for public use and 50 per cent of the second floor is for residents. The places are 4.75 m long with a minimum width of 2.35 m. The main traffic lanes are 5.00 m wide.

The roof is supported on perimeter screen walls and a central line of pillars and prefabricated girders.

The roof structure is of prefabricated, pre-stressed honeycomb plates, with spans of 14.70 m, 83 cm wide and a compression layer of 20 cm, placed in the shortest parking direction and supported on the screen wall and the central line of pillars and prefabricated girders. Likewise, the structure of basement 1 is also of honeycomb plates 14.7 m long but 45 cm wide and with a compression layer of 5 cm.

The landscaping of the new square includes the accesses to the underground parking and integrates it with the surrounding streets. It has a multi-use area for activities that allow people to gather in events in the city and a platform forming a stage for these events.

The work is completed with a monumental fountain with a water sheet and sloping walls and covered with glazed tiles in various colours as decorative elements.

The FCC Construcción group

Ibérica de Servicios y Obras is a subsidiary company of FCC whose building activity mainly centres on both residential and non-residential building, shopping centres, industrial works and estates.
During 2006 it was active in 45 sites of which the following most important ones were recently terminated:

• 216 homes (166 blocks and 50 individual), garage, storage rooms, shops and landscaping in San Sebastián de los Reyes

• Alcalá de Guadaira shopping centre

• Hipercor shopping centre, El Bercial

• Laminated plaster sheets factory

• Bricor shop, Alcalá De Henares (Corte Inglés)

216 homes (166 blocks and 50 individual), garage, storage rooms, shops and landscaping in San Sebastián de los Reyes

This work consisted of building 166 housing blocks in five buildings with two basements and ground floor plus four levels of homes, distributed in 18 areas and 50 individual homes in three rows, all built on a site of 22,759 m² with a total built up area of 52,727 m² and 2,601.55 m² for roads.

Alcalá de Guadaira shopping centre

Building of a shopping centre in the “Cerro Cabeza Hermosa” estate in Alcalá de Guadaira (Seville).
The centre consists of a building located on a hillside site with a semi-basement and two floors and a total built up area of 32,000 m².

The work involved earth moving, foundations, floor and structure with honeycomb plate structures and included the sewerage and adjoining landscaping.

Hipercor shopping centre, El Bercial

Building of a Hipercor shopping centre located on site 62 of the “El Bercial – Universidad” estate in Getafe (Madrid).

The centre consists of three basements, ground floor, two upper floors, roof and a semi roof with a total area of 170,000 m².

The work consisted of building the foundations and structure of the shopping centre, the foundations being direct with ridged shoes forming a uniform grid of 8 x 8 metres. The structures are of solid slabs with uniform thicknesses matching the spans and forecast loads.

Laminated plaster sheets factory

Building of a factory for laminated plaster sheets in the “Los Espartines” farm, San Martín de la Vega (Madrid).
The work consisted of carrying out the civil engineering work (foundations, slabs, beds, walls and support structure) for the crushing plant, homogenising and recycling (scrap) plant, paper store, calcination oven and manufacturing hall. Three buildings were also built for offices, logistics and control.

Bricor shop, Alcalá De Henares (Corte Inglés)

First shopping centre of the Bricor brand from El Corte Inglés for the sale of do-it-yourself products.

Built as an annex to the Hipercor in the La Garena estate, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), it is located on a trapezoid urban site with an area of 25,565 m².

It has two basement floors for parking and installations and a semi-basement, a ground floor and upper floor for the shops and various leisure uses. The total built up area is 37,800 m².

FCC Construcción adds the online version of the 2005/2006 Sustainability Report to its Web site

The new online version of the 2005/2006 Sustainability Report can now be accessed from the FCC Construcción Web site home page, www.fccco.es.

Designed as an independent Web site, it allows quick and smooth navigation through the Sustainability Report, improved access to its sections and also includes, as well as the previous report, the progress report for the new United Nations World Agreement and the AENOR validation report.

Megaplas receives the Qualitas prize, awarded by the Fiat group to its most outstanding suppliers

The quality and excellent service of Megaplas, an FCC company dedicated to implanting corporate images throughout Europe, has been awarded with the Qualitias Prize that the Fiat group awards annually to its most outstanding suppliers.

The award was received by the Megaplas general director, José Antonio Martínez, from Gianni Coda, general director of purchasing for the Italian company and from Alfredo Tafuri, purchasing director. Also present at the ceremony was Stefan Setter, Fiat Auto production director.

The Fiat group has placed its confidence in Megaplas to develop and implement a new brand logo in the worldwide dealership network, carried out in the specialised centre that Megaplas has in Turin using the most innovative high vacuum metallising technologies to spray vaporised metal particles that provide an effect of transparency when illuminated.

Archaeological find in reguers de seró (Lérida province)

While FCC Construcción was carrying out work on the inlet pipework for the second phase of the Segarra-Garrigues system, in the province of Lérida, engraved stone slabs of exceptional importance were found.

A trench was being excavated in the municipality of Artesa de Segre, in the Seró district, the name of which has been adopted by the archaeologists for the site, now known as “Reguers de Seró.”

Once the site was found, the FCC Construcción technicians and managers responsible for the work immediately suspended work and alerted the management of ASG Aigües del Segarra Garrigues to report the matter to the Cultural Department of the Government of Catalonia.

After various weeks’ archaeological work, it was stated that this was a megalithic site with various elements, approximately 5,000 years old, from the late Neolithic period. The exact dating will come from carbon 14 tests.



This finding - unique in the Iberian peninsular - may become a reference point for the megalithic period in Europe, comparable to those in Brittany and Malta, according to representatives of the prehistoric research group at the University of Lérida.

It is a funeral monument from the epoch, originally consisting of four stone slabs decorated with geometric and “fishbone” reliefs, forming a square and covered with a mass of earth and stone, known as a tumulus. Inside, human and animal remains were found which, say the experts, show that it was raided in more recent times.

Once the investigation work is finished, the Neolithic remains will be moved to a suitable place and put on show to the public.

Regional and local authorities and those responsible for the archaeological excavation have praised the site personnel for the diligence, great care and collaboration in identifying and saving a site that is certainly of world-wide importance.

Thus FCC Construcción lets the facts show its commitment to social responsibility through its respect for our cultural heritage.

Alpine Mayreder is the third austrian building company with a strong presence in Germany and in east and southeast Europe

Since FCC announced the acquisition of Alpine Mayreder - the third building company in Austria - in July 2006, Alpine has become an important enclave in the FCC Construcción group’s internationalisation strategy.

Alpine was founded by the Pappas family in 1965 and in the 1970s grew to become one of the most important private building companies in Austria.

The company started working on civil engineering projects although today it covers all areas of the building sector internationally.

Regional and international expansion
With its origin in Salzburg, Alpine started its regional expansion in 1972 by opening branches in the federal provinces of Austria. This regional expansion was initially concentrated in western Austria. In 1985 the group started its international expansion by building a shopping centre in Munich.

During the 1990s, it started a process of consolidation through mergers and acquisitions of companies with long traditions in the Austrian market, with the following notable operations:

-1996,	Alpine acquired Mayreder, an Austrian company with over 100 years’ experience in the building sector.
- 1998,	Ferro-Betonit-Werke AG was acquired and merged with Alpine.
- 2000,	Alpine Bauges.m.b.H and Mayreder joined to form Alpine Mayreder GmbH.
- 2002,	Alpine acquired Universale.

Alpine today
In addition to the domestic market, Alpine is active in various central and eastern European countries, the Balkans and Asia through its branches and projects.

Alpine’s turnover in 2006 was some 2,100 million; about 37.8% was for work carried out abroad.
The turnover of the Alpine group in 2006 was some €2,100 million, about 25% higher than in 2002.

The main markets for the Alpine group in 2005 were Austria and Germany, which together provided 78.4% of the group’s business figure.

Thus the FCC Construcción group has accelerated its objective of becoming a multinational group with a notable presence throughout Europe.

The group’s most important business areas are buildings, roads and general civil engineering projects.
Alpine’s activity centres on the building sector, its most important areas being buildings and civil engineering. The company also specialises in large projects involving complex technical work such as building bridges and tunnels.

At the same time, Alpine also undertakes civil engineering projects and has an important presence in other areas of activity such as industrial services, the recovery of raw materials and cleaning polluted ground.

Alpine includes the Alpine Energie division, dedicated to services for power and telecommunications installations. This company is a market leader in its area of activity and accounts for 7.5% of the overall turnover of the Alpine group and 30% of Alpine’s profits. It has over 500 employees working in four countries, Austria, Luxemburg, Germany and Switzerland. Alpine Energie is divided into various activity segments such as power lines, railway systems, communications technology and plant engineering.

The main projects undertaken by Alpine currently are the St Gotthard railway tunnel (Switzerland) and it recently won the project to build and operate the A5 motorway in Austria.
Alpine participates in many relevant projects in both Austria and the other countries in which it is active.

Together with Hochtief, Alpine recently won the contract for the concession to build and operate for 30 years the 51 km section of the A5 motorway between Vienna and the frontier with the Czech Republic, a €945 million project that represents a major increase in the company’s business portfolio.

Alpine is also participating in the project to build the St Gotthard railway tunnel with 57 km of railway line in the Ticino region of Switzerland. The project is expected to end in December 2012.

The company has also participated in the building of the Munich stadium, site of the official inauguration of the FIFA World Cup in Germany in 2006 and one of the most spectacular stadiums in the world.

Fcc Construcción makes progress in integrating Alpine in all countries in which it operates

As soon as it was announced that Alpine was to be acquired by FCC Construcción, a co-ordinated integration process started between the managements of both companies. The process started in September 2006 and is expected to end in April 2007. It involves three phases:

Phase I: Operational revision
During this stage of the process, from September to October 2006, FCC Construcción revised Alpine’s operating processes, this revision provided knowledge of the main business areas (ten key business areas were identified) and of Alpine’s operating processes. The analysis has served to identify the differences and similarities between the companies and thus to plan the takeover and integration process optimally.

Phase II: Urgent actions and definition of the integration plan
This stage consisted of putting into practice the urgent actions identified during the operational revision and the undertaking of other actions which, because of the company’s size and type of business, were considered priorities. The result of this stage was the identification and prioritising of a series of projects considered key to ensuring successful integration.

Phase III: Implementation of the integration plan
The integration process is now in this phase, which consists of implementing the integration plan by undertaking the key projects to suitably integrate Alpine into the FCC Construcción based on the objectives, activities, managers, timetables and indicators identified in the previous phase.

One of the most important projects in this stage is the development of the Alpine business plan for which the involvement of the Alpine management team has been fundamental. Mixed work teams have also been set up, consisting of FCC and Alpine personnel in various areas of work.

The process of integrating the companies is thus consolidating, mainly due to the following factors:

- The method for implementation and quick undertaking.
- The co-ordination between the various areas of Alpine and FCC Construcción.
- The involvement and commitment of both management teams throughout the process.