As part of its commitment to innovation, Sacyr has designed an app that includes Aqu@m comprehensive management software. This allows access to the virtual office from any location, and can be used to obtain the bill for the service more quickly and easily, and in a more environmentally sustainable way. Among other things, it can also be used to submit meter readings, to report problems and to simulate a customer's next bill.

More about the virtual office: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS_l1ZOcFTg 

This contract represents the consolidation of Sacyr Water’s activity in Asturias, where it manages the public supply service in the Asturias Central Area, the water network linked to the Canal del Narcea in Ablaneda and the management, maintenance and upkeep of the La Franca Waste Water Management Stations. In addition, it manages the Waste Water Management Stations for the municipalities of Oscos, Taramundi, Grandas de Salime, Ibias, Degaña, San Tirso de Abres, Carreño, Vegadeo and Ribadesella, on behalf of the Asturias Sanitation Authority.

Sacyr Water is responsible for the management of the complete water cycle and operates and maintains more than 13,000 km of supply networks and more than 108,000 drains and manholes in six countries, in which it provides services to 10 million inhabitants.

Sacyr has signed a commitment to “Business Ambition for 1.5°C”, an initiative encouraging companies all over the world to align themselves with the United Nations’ target to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 1.5ºC above what it was in pre-industrial times.

As part of this objective, Sacyr has signed the letter of support for Science Based Target (SBTi), a combined initiative of CDP, the United Nations Global compact, the Institute for World Resources and the WWF. SBT will assist in establishing science-based strategies against climate change to reduce gas emissions that contribute to the greenhouse effect. This represents yet another action by Sacyr to protect the climate.

Sacyr has become one of the companies and organizations that have signed up to this objective. The “Business Ambition for 1.5ºC” commitment has been signed by a total of over 177 companies. These companies employ over 5.8 million workers in 36 countries, and represent annual carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions equivalent to those of a country the size of France.

Sacyr’s commitment to this initiative forms part of its responsibility in the fight against climate change. The company sees the issue of CO₂ as a priority action within its organization and contributes to improving the environment in which it operates.

Initiatives already under way

This year, Sacyr has obtained Reduzco certification by reducing CO₂ emissions in its activities in Spain for scopes 1, 2 and 3 by 7.34% between 2016 and 2018, with respect to the three-year period from 2015-2017.

Counting and recording four consecutive carbon footprints (2015-2018) with the Carbon Footprint, Carbon Offset and CO₂ Absorption Project Registry is a mandatory step in earning this certification.

An integrated management system

Sacyr operates under an integrated management system in working towards continuous improvement in the operations it undertakes with regard to the environment and a commitment to combatting climate change across all its activities. This system establishes a common, homogenous and comprehensive framework, which brings together all the certifications held by the companies that make up the group.

During 2018, the group invested over 20 million euros in environmental management and preventive measures, an increase of 15% compared to the previous year. The group’s commitment to sustainability is also reflected in its membership of environmental sustainability indexes such as the FTSE4GOOD.

Sacyr restates its commitment to sport by renewing its support for two more years to Mario Mola, three-time triathlon world champion. Sacyr began its collaboration with the athlete from the Balearic Islands in 2015, during the preparation for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.

In a media pitch held today, Mario Mola pointed out that sports sponsorship is essential for athletes, and stated that “being an ambassador and representing Sacyr is a privilege”. He also appreciated the opportunity and confidence deposited on him by the multinational, as he is "proud and glad to be able to celebrate a new stage ahead of the Tokyo Olympics”.

Manuel Manrique, Chairman of Sacyr, stressed the "impressive progression" of Mario Mola during the past few years, in which he has won three world championships in a row, and “how lucky we have been to be able to support him through his success in which he has overcome many challenges through his endeavor, sacrifice and humility”. "We would like to continue supporting Mario during the next two years, which will be very important for his sports career, with a milestone as relevant as the 2020 Olympics, in which he also aims for gold," said Manrique.

Season review

Mario Mola has analyzed the start of the 2019 season, in which he has managed to win the first test held in Abu Dhabi, his schedule to re-validate the title of Triathlon World Champion and his planning for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Sacyr Facilities has been awarded the cleaning service for terminals 1 and 2 of the Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport for a total amount of 70 million euros over three years.

The services that Sacyr Facilities will carry out are the cleaning of both airport terminals, the passenger toilets, the airport offices and the disinfection, disinfestation and rat extermination services. 

This contract includes the cleaning of an approximate total area of 300,000 m2 through which almost 50 million passengers travel every year, which makes it the second airport for passenger traffic in Spain. 

Sacyr Facilities is the group company integrated into Sacyr Services which is specialized in operation and comprehensive property maintenance services. Among other things, it has extensive experience in cleaning airports such as T1, T2 and T3 at Madrid-Barajas, as well as other transport infrastructures such as the Madrid’s and Santiago de Chile’s subways. Sacyr's Facilities subsidiary reaches a backlog of 1,500 million euros in Spain, Chile and Mexico and has a workforce of over 18,000 people.

Aguas Municipales de Vitoria (AMVISA) has awarded Sacyr Water the maintenance service of its sanitation and purification network (urban quarter and administrative councils) for a period of three years (renewable for two more years) and an amount of 11.4 million euros.

With this contract, Sacyr Water will provide services to a population of over 250,000 residents, and will carry out:

- the cleaning and inspection of the sanitation network, over 1,000 km in length; 

- the restoration works with reparation technology without opening ditches;

- and the cleaning of septic tanks.  

Recycling technology and zero emissions vehicles

In line with the city’s environmentally sustainable model and Sacyr Water's commitment to the SDGs and sustainable cities, the subsidiary will incorporate zero emissions and eco-friendly equipment. All cleaning vehicles of the network will use recycling technology that allows significantly reducing the consumption of water, as well as improving the performance of the cleaning equipment. 

Among the priorities of this service Sacyr Water has set the preservation of natural and environmental resources, workplace safety and health in all processes and innovation.

Sacyr Water carries out the management of the complete water cycle and operates and maintains more than 13,000 km of supply networks and more than 108,000 drains and manholes in six countries, in which it supplies 10 million inhabitants.

UEFA has awarded Surge Ambiental, a subsidiary of Sacyr Environment dedicated to the management of privately generated waste, the contract to manage the waste from the VIP tents in the vicinity of the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid during the UEFA Champions League 2019 final on June 1. 

This contract consolidates Surge Ambiental’s business as a waste manager in private events. The contract includes the management of the Champions Village and Football Village areas, which will occupy an area of 35,000 m2 and host some 10,000 UEFA guests and VIPs.

On the day of the match, Surge will manage approximately 20,000 kg of waste in different 800-liter containers, open boxes, igloos and self-compactors, where it will be sorted to ensure correct recycling.

During the service, Surge Ambiental will provide the material and human resources necessary for the proper management of the waste, which will be sorted by type (organic matter, paper/cardboard, light packaging, glass, wood, carpet and the rest) in order to guarantee their correct management and to give priority to the separation of materials and recycling. 

The service consists of three distinct phases: assembly, which began on April 15 and will last until May 31; match day, 1 June; and dismantling, which will last a few more weeks. 

Environmentally responsible waste management

Surge Ambiental has more than 10 years of experience in the integral management and transport of construction and demolition waste (CDW) and industrial waste. Its business model is based on sustainability and environmentally responsible management with policies that allow a complete recovery of waste. 

Surge has a Quality Management and Environmental Management and Energy Management System in accordance with the standards ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001, UNE 158301, UNE 158101 and EMAS, the main standards in their respective areas at international and European level.

Sacyr continues promoting its strategy of digital transformation and the creation of an innovative ecosystem with artificial intelligence solutions, machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT). 

Sacyr Digital Day, the annual event dedicated to open innovation, was celebrated October 15. At this private company event, 13 innovators from Sacyr iChallenges 2019 gathered and presented their proposals intended to resolve the four challenges posed by this program: smart business development, digitalization of occupational safety, social and remote care and smart tolls.

Manuel Manrique, President of Sacyr, opened the session with the following words: “We want to create solutions that provide value to our public and private clients.” To do so, he explained that “it is necessary to have internal and external talent nearby, which can be found anytime, anywhere.” For this reason, we are launching this program, Sacyr iChallenges, intended to collaborate with all innovators.”

Along the same lines, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Víctor de Ávila commented that the company “is committed to disruptive innovation in order to develop new business models, given that that’s where the great change is.”

The Innovators

In this second edition of Sacyr iChallenges, a total of 192 ideas were received, nearly double the previous edition, which had 79. After the evaluation phase of all of the initiatives, 13 innovators were considered to be most adapted to the challenges proposed. Among them, there are both large and small companies. These are the innovators:

·         Challenge 1. Smart Business Development. Ártabro Tech, Itelligent Information Technologies and KPMG have been the companies with the proposals most adapted to this challenge. The objective of everyone is to develop a technological solution that gathers the information available on the network, and allows the early identification of new business opportunities for the turnkey construction of industrial plants.

·         Challenge 2. Digitalization of occupational safety. The Innovators were CAD42, Detector and Zerintia. The purpose of these companies is to develop a technological solution that helps employees and work supervisors prevent in real time the occupational safety risks that may arise during its implementation.

·         Challenge 3. Social and remote care. Breprevent, Kwido and Wattio. The idea is to develop a technological solution with a social approach that provides added value to be able to monitor the routines of dependent people in real time and remotely, in order to offer users well-being and peace of mind to their families.

·         Challenge 4. Smart tolls. Deoban, Foqum, Iecisa and Vodafone have been the companies with the proposals most adapted to this challenge. The objective is to create automatic detection and classification of types of vehicles for toll collection that make the current process more efficient and adds value for users, public administrations and Sacyr.

More information at https://www.sacyrichallenges.com/

The Rutas del Este consortium, led by Sacyr Concesiones, has issued a bond for 240 million dollars to finance the construction of doubling the size of Routes 2 and 7 in Paraguay. 

The issuance was 2.5 times oversubscribed, which shows the solidity of the project and the confidence international investors have in it. The bonds will have an interest of 5% and a 17-year expiration.  

Rutas del Este, formed by Sacyr (60%) and the Paraguayan firm Ocho A (40%), also has financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB Invest) up to 200 million dollars to carry out the work, which will require an investment of approximately 520 million dollars.  

Construction, operation and maintenance 

The project includes 149.5 km of the RN-2 National Routes “Mariscal José Félix Estigarribia” and RN-7 “José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia” which will be doubled in size, improved, operated and maintained by the concessionaire.  

The contract, which includes the construction of five variants (37.5 km), will relieve junctions from urban areas and will seek to reduce the current cost for the benefit of users. All within the framework of the Public-Private Partnership Agreement (PPP), with the Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC).  

The construction and expansion of Routes 2 and 7 is the first road project under the PPP law of Paraguay. Its development is essential for the growth of the country, as this is the most important corridor in Paraguay where 70% of economic activity is concentrated. 

Sacyr will be responsible for the management and routine upkeep of 436 kilometers of highway along the road corridor that links the Peruvian departments of Ayacucho, Huancavelica and Junín, located in the central region of the country.

The Rutas de Ayacucho Road Consortium, composed of two Sacyr subsidiaries - Saopse and Sacyr Conservación - will carry out this work, entailing a budget of more than 47 million soles (EUR 12.6 million). The contract, which was awarded by Provías Nacional through a call for tenders, will begin in March and be executed over a period of three years.

2,200 kilometers 

With this new project, Sacyr is now responsible for the upkeep of 2,200 km of roadways in Peru, more than 1,400 km of which are service agreements with Provías Nacional. Another 800 km fall under the management of Operation and Maintenance in the concession of Section II of Carretera Longitudinal de la Sierra. These figures position Sacyr as the leader in the Peruvian road upkeep market. “Sacyr is now a very important player in the road upkeep sector in this country. Our focus is to continue collaborating with the Peruvian government to contribute to the efficient development of the Peruvian road upkeep market. We also want to bolster our position as the top road upkeep company in Peru by offering quality infrastructure to all our users, making the connections between cities safer and improving travel times,” stressed Alan Granados, representative of Saopse in Peru.

The Qatar State Company Asghal has awarded the consortium formed by Sacyr Engineering and Infrastructure and Medgulf the urbanization works in South Al Meshaf (Qatar) in the south of Doha for a total of 114 million euros.

The project will consist of the urbanization of the surrounding area of 117 hectares located in the south of Doha, 5 kilometers west of Al Wakrah (Qatar), which will include  9.5 kilometers of roads and a waste collector by building a 6.5-kilometer-long micro tunnel, with a diameter of 2 and 2.4 meters located at a depth of 25 and 38 meters. 

The works will commence next June and will have a duration of 42 months.

Sacyr already has other projects underway in the country, such as the design and construction of the building works of QEZ-1, as well as the sewerage of plots A and B in the same area, among others. 

This project South Al Meshaf is yet another example of the company’s consolidation and commitment in this strategic market. 

Sacyr has received the “Reduzco” [I reduce] seal from the Spanish Office of Climate Change (OECC) from the Ministry for Ecological Transition for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions (GGE) by 7.34% in their activities in Spain.

Sacyr has achieved reducing its CO₂ emissions in its activities in Spain by 7.34% between 2016-2018 with respect to the three-year period from 2015-2017 for scopes 1, 2 and 3. Counting and recording four consecutive carbon footprints (2015-2018) in the Carbon Footprint, Carbon Offset and CO2 Absorption Project Registry is a mandatory step in earning this seal.

The “Reduzco” [I reduce] seal is granted to organizations that count and record their carbon footprint for a minimum of four years and are able to reduce emissions.

Within its responsibility in the fight against climate change, the group believes the management of CO₂ is a priority action within its organization, which offers important opportunities for the growth, development and competitiveness of its companies, and which contributes to improve the environment, society and the future.

Obtaining the “Reduzco” [I reduce] seal recognizes the effort made so far, and represents a boost in continuing to work to fulfill Sustainable Development Goal (SDG): SDG 13 Adopt urgent measures to fight climate change and its effects.

In 2016, Sacyr recorded its footprint in the National Registry to establish objectives and initiatives with the aim of improving energy efficiency, optimizing the consumption of resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The “Calculo – Reduzco” [I Count – I Reduce] seal includes all of Sacyr's activities in Spain, and can be consulted at the Ministry for Ecological Transition’s website: https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/cambio-climatico/temas/mitigacion-politicas-y-medidas/buscador_empresas.aspx

Sacyr reached an EBITDA of €543 million in 2018, up 29% compared to the previous financial year. The net profit stood at 150 million euros last year, up 15% compared to 2017.

This strong growth asserts the success of the strategy undertaken by Sacyr in 2015, which focused on profitability, financial discipline, international expansion and the diversification of business areas. 

The four divisions of Sacyr increased their EBITDA during 2018: Engineering and Infrastructure (+82%); Concessions (+17%); Services (+14%); and Industrial (+5%). Business profitability, measured by the EBITDA margin, has grown, yet another year, from 13.7% to 14.3% in 2017.

Turnover growth

Sacyr’s turnover stood at 3,796 million euros (+23%), of which 60% came from international markets. 

This double-digit growth is a result of the success in contracting registered by all business areas during the last financial years. 

Income backlog

The future income backlog closed the year at 41,674 million euros (+2%). The backlog reflects the strong internationalization of the company: 71% is already located outside Spain. 

By geographical areas: America represents 38% of the portfolio, Europe 59% and 3% is located on other continents.

And by activities, in Infrastructure, international contracts accounted for 88% of the total, 82% in Concessions, 29% in Services, and 11% in Industrial.

During 2018, the company won large projects in all its divisions. Among them, it is worth noting the remodeling of Uruguay’s central railway, the construction of the Fortaleza Subway (Brazil) and the first four contracts of the construction subsidiary in the USA for a total of 318 million. The entry into the North American country was one of the most important milestones of the Strategic Plan. 

Financial debt

The group’s pro forma net debt is set at 4,046 million euros. Over 70% of the debt is linked to concession projects. 

The strength of the results and the positive performance of the company's businesses mark the return to a regular dividend policy. 

In 2018, the company issued two scrip dividends, which totaled 0.103 euros per share.

Compliance with the Strategic Plan

Sacyr closes 2018, the fourth year of the 2015-2020 Strategic Plan, with the objectives met and with new goals for 2020.

Since the launch of the Strategic Plan, the EBITDA of the multinational company has experienced an accumulated annual growth of 23%, while the net result and operating cash flow have increased, respectively, 46% and 76% annually.

The company has moved forward its focus on the concessional business, and 75% of EBITDA already comes from concession assets. 

For the 2019-2020 biennium, the company renews its goals:

• Continuous and sustainable growth in the concessions business to achieve the goal that more than 85% of cash flows are recurrent and stable.

• Consolidation in domestic markets and selective growth in the Anglo-Saxon market (USA, Canada, Australia and United Kingdom).

• Selection of projects with cash generation and profitability criteria.

• Strict financial discipline and reduction of debt with recourse.

• Innovation and technology to achieve technical excellence.

• Sustainability and technological leadership in the circular economy.

• Maximizing value for the shareholder.  

Change by business area

Engineering and Infrastructure. - The turnover of this division totaled 1,713 million euros, with a growth of 40%, on the back of both international (+46%) and national (+12%) activity. International turnover represents 85% of the total. 

The division's EBITDA increased 82% to €168 million and the EBITDA margin improved to 9.8%, compared to 7.6% in the last financial year.   

Contracts for new projects made a record 1,950 million euros, 33% more than in 2017. Hence, the infrastructures backlog reached 6,183 million euros, representing 43 months of activity. 88% of the backlog is located outside Spain. 

Notable contracts are: the first four contracts for the company in the United States; the first phase of the Fortaleza Subway (Brazil); the construction of a stretch of highway A6 in Northern Ireland; the construction of the Alto Hospicio and Villarica hospitals in Chile and San Alejandro de Cholula hospital in Mexico.

Concessions.- Sacyr Concessions recorded revenues of €793 million, 29% higher than in 2017. Of the total, €432 million came from concession revenues, which grew 21% as a result of the start of the Antofagasta Hospital operations and the Rutas de Limari highway, both in Chile, and the improvement in highway traffic figures. The remaining €361 million (+40%) are from construction revenue, which grew thanks to the works in Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia and Mexico.

EBITDA reached €272 million, up 17%. 

The backlog of future revenue reached €27.081 million, with its international business accounting for 82% of this figure. 

The group obtained its first airport concession in Chile in Puerto Montt and it opened the Limarí Route, also in Chile.

After the close, the group was selected for the construction and operation of the Central Railroad in Uruguay and in Chile, the section of Route 5 between Los Vilos and La Serena and the Chacatulla airport in Arica.

It also concluded the financing of its two concession projects in Mexico (Tlahuac Hospital and the Pirámides-Pachuca Highway), the first phase in the financing of the Rumichaca-Pasto y Montes de María highways in Colombia and the refinancing of the Guadalmedina highway in Spain.

Services.- The turnover of this division grew 13%, to €1,075 million, owing to the positive change in all its business areas: Environment had a turnover of 439 million euros (+12%), Multiservice, 508 million euros (+14%) and Water, 124 million euros (+8%).

Generated EBITDA by Sacyr Services reached €95 million, up 14% compared to 2017. The EBITDA margin remained at 8.8%. 

The Services backlog totaled €5,899 million, 29% of which came from international contracts. 

During the past year, the company reached some important milestones, such as the management of the complete water cycle of Sotogrande (Cádiz, Spain); the waste collection, street cleaning, maintenance of green areas and transport of waste in Bogotá; the street cleaning and waste collection from Melilla, Lérida, Barakaldo (Vizcaya) and Arona (Santa Cruz de Tenerife); the cleaning and maintenance of lines 2 and 6 of the Santiago de Chile Subway and lot 3 of the Madrid Subway; and the home assistance service in the Community of Madrid and in the provinces of Valladolid, Ávila and in the city of Burgos.

Industrial.- The revenue of the Industrial division reached €527 million (+1%) and EBITDA totaled 36 million (+5%).  

The growth posted in the year is due to the increase in the company’s activity, especially in the industrial plant, electrical and water infrastructures areas.

The industrial division's backlog was €2,511 million, an 8.7% increase over the same period in 2017. 11% of the backlog is international. 

During 2018 major projects were contracted during the period, such as the construction of a fuel storage and distribution terminal in Mollendo (Peru), the construction of photovoltaic plants in Spain and the third water project in Australia, which consists of the design and construction of a water treatment plant for agricultural use in Adelaide and three photovoltaic solar plants in Ciudad Real. 

Starting in December, Valoriza Medioambiente will be providing the city cleaning service and the collection and transport of waste in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands). The contract has a duration of eight years and has a total worth of 142 million euros.

Valoriza will be replacing its fleet of sanitation vehicles in Santa Cruz and will change the approximately 6,000 trash containers in the city.

The cleaning contract for Santa Cruz, which has a population of 205,000, will be one of the most important contracts in Valoriza Medioambiente’s portfolio.

Environmental sustainability

The new service is committed to sustainability. Valoriza Medioambiente will replace its entire fleet of vehicles and equipment for a new, more eco-efficient fleet that will run on compressed natural gas (CNG) or electricity. The fleet will generate less contaminants and will be much more respectful of the environment.

Likewise, the technological innovations incorporated in the vehicles and equipment allow self-diagnosis of the equipment and the transfer of work and operation data in real time.

The new containers are noted for being easy to use and empty, and will include Smart Elements that provide real-time information. What’s more, they are designed to make cleaning and maintaining them in top operating condition easy, agile and efficient.

A customer base worth more than 2 billion euros

With this new contract, Valoriza Medioambiente increases its presence in the waste disposal and street cleaning business, which it currently operates in almost 400 municipalities in Spain (including Madrid, Albacete, Toledo, Guadalajara, and Cadiz) and Colombia. Overall, the company has a client base worth over 2 billion euros and provides services to a population greater than 4.5 million.

Sacyr Engineering and Infrastructure was awarded construction contracts in 2018 for a total volume of 1,950 million euros, 33% more than in 2017. Adding the contracts awarded in December, and signed after the closing, it amounts to 2,824 million euros.

Among the new projects, 1,317 million euros correspond to civil works contracts and 634 million euros to construction contracts. Latin America accounts for 41.3% of these projects; Spain, 22.7%; United States, 16.3%; the rest of Europe, 15.3%; and Africa and the Middle East for 4.4%.

Thanks to these new awards, the construction backlog of Sacyr's infrastructure subsidiary closed December at 6,182 million euros, 5.4% up compared to December last year. By geographical areas, the work backlog is distributed as follows: Spain (12%), rest of Europe (38%), Latin America (39.5%), Middle East and Africa (5.5%) and the United States (5%).

Strong growth in Spain

In Spain, the new projects awarded in 2018 amounted to 442.5 million euros, with a growth of 122%. 

Among the projects in which Sacyr participates, the following stand out: the section of LAV Murcia - Almería (section: Los Arejos - Níjar), for 98 million euros; the expansion of the port of Langosteira in A Coruña, for 40 million euros; the expansion of the South Dike Building of the El Prat airport (Barcelona), for 28.3 million euros; lot 4 of the construction works of the road tunnels in the Plaza de las Glòries in Barcelona, for 24.6 million euros; the construction of a four-star hotel in La Manga del Mar Menor (Murcia), for 11 million euros; and the expansion of a private hospital in the Community of Madrid, for 18 million euros.

Entry into the United States

The new international projects awarded last year totaled 1,508 million euros, 20% higher than the previous year. In 2018 Sacyr was able to fulfill one of its objectives of the Strategic Plan 2015-2020: entry into the United States with infrastructure projects that already total 317.4 million euros.

The international contracts in which Sacyr participates, among others, include: the East line of the Fortaleza Metro (Brazil), for 350 million euros; the SR23 road in Jacksonville for the Department of Transportation of Florida (United States), for 202 million euros; the A6 highway between Dungiven - Drumahoe Dualling (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom) for 162 million euros.

In Latin America the following contracts stand out: Alto Hospicio Hospital (Chile), for 95 million euros; San Andrés de Cholula Hospital (Mexico), for 70.4 million; the Sports Village of Callao for the Pan-American Games in Lima (Peru), for 43.7 million; the Esmeralda reservoir (Colombia), for 32.6 million; El Tepual airport in Puerto Montt (Chile), for 32.5 million. 

El viernes 9 de agosto finalizó la negociación para el cierre del contrato de la Construcción Losa de Cimentación del Centro Intermodal de Transporte Terrestre (CITT) del NAICM ganado por el consorcio Sacyr Epccor NAICM, S.A.P.I. de C.V. en diciembre de 2016.

Se acordó un finiquito de 13,18 millones de euros de un monto original contratado que ascendía a 118,83 millones de euros.

Este finiquito se negoció bajo la rectoría de los valores del Gobierno de México alcanzando un acuerdo en el marco de la ley, transparente, honrado y justo para las empresas y sobre todo cuidando las mejores condiciones para el Estado mexicano.

Con estos acuerdos, Grupo Aeroportuario supera el 90% de compromisos cerrados y continúa con los trabajos para el cierre de los últimos contratos.

Construction work began on the Bi-Provincial Hospital Quillota and Petorca in January 2017, a joint project of the Architecture Directorate of the Ministry of Public Works of Valparaíso and the Health Service of Viña del Mar Quillota. The architect firm bbats + Tirado are in charge of the works, which are executed by Sacyr Engineering and Infrastructure.

The project includes Hospital Care (private) and Ambulatory Care (public), it will have a capacity of 282 beds, 542 parking spaces and will be located in the region of Valparaíso, in the city of Quillota, Quillota district. The hospital will serve an estimated population of 310,000 inhabitants, belonging to the communes of Quillota, Calera, La Cruz, Nogales, La Ligua, Petorca, Cabildo and Hijuelas.

With a total surface of 73,430.29 m2, it has an insulator level, 1 underground level, emergency response service, 7-floor hospitalization tower and heliport.

The Sustainable Building Certification System (CES) includes two main phases: Pre-Certification and Certification regarding the compliance of a variable set, with compulsory and voluntary requirements that provide a score, and also contemplates an optional voluntary seal, arranged in the following way: 

• Pre-certified "Sustainable Building": The architecture and facilities of the building are assessed. 

• Certified "Sustainable Building": The architecture, facilities and construction of the building are assessed. 

• Seal "Plus Operation": The management during the operation of the building is assessed.

The general scope of the environmental behavior of a building is assessed in five thematic aspects: 1. Quality of the Indoor Environment 2. Energy 3. Water 4. Waste 5. Management.  These themes have been grouped into four categories: A. Passive Architectural Design (Architecture) B. Active Systems Design (Facilities) C. Construction D. Operation.

The Pre-Certification is mainly established as an assessment instance of the design stage that enables improvement of its architecture and facilities, including possible modifications during the construction stage, and additionally allows the client to make statements validated by a third party regarding the environmental and energy efficiency features of its building, prior to or during its construction.

The CES "Sustainable Building Certification" allows to assess, qualify and certify the environmental behavior of buildings for public use in Chile, both new and existing, without differentiating administration or public or private property.

The system was developed by the Construction Institute with the support and formal participation of 13 public and private entities, gathered with the purpose of encouraging the design and construction of buildings with sustainability criteria, and promoting the market so that it values this type of buildings.

This recognition comes on the back of Sacyr’s work on the Pirámides-Tulancingo-Pachuca project, whose client is the Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT). 

The road sector in Mexico is one of the most relevant in terms of investment, since billions of pesos are invested each year in order to improve and increase connectivity between the different regions of the country.

The journal Infrastructure and Development of Mexico (IDM) performs a journalistic study and analyzes projects of construction companies carried out during June 2017 and July 2018. This ranking is made up of 300 companies overall, 50 for each sector: Road, Energy, Hydraulic, Logistic, Health and States and Municipalities.

Human capital

Sacyr has stood out in its first public-private partnership in the road infrastructure sector in Mexico thanks to its great financial capacity, extraordinary human capital, as well as the use of new technologies.

In this sense, it is worth noting the use of asphalt mixes with RAR X, tire powder pre-mixed in asphalt, which improves resistance to wear and tear and plastic deformations of the mixture, increasing its duration and improving its performance.

The Sacyr Foundation and the Juan XXIII Roncalli Foundation have signed a collaboration agreement to expand and adapt the kitchens of the Roncalli Special Employment Center located in Vicálvaro (Madrid), from where it carries out its catering service.

The improvement in the kitchens will enable increasing the activity of the catering services of the Foundation and thus create new jobs that favor the labor inclusion of those with intellectual disability. The catering services currently have 45 employees, 67% of whom have some type of disability. 

This project is part of the objectives of the Sacyr Foundation for cooperation for the development of disadvantaged groups, the promotion of social action and the care of those at risk of social exclusion. Furthermore, it is aligned with the guidelines that mark Sacyr’s Corporate Social Responsibility Plan that promotes the values and ethical principles of the Group.

The catering of the Special Employment Center of Juan XXIII Roncalli Foundation offers service in three areas: communities, catering services and events. This Foundation is a reference center for the social and labor inclusion of those with intellectual disabilities, seeking to improve their quality of life and that of their families.

For more information, visit Juan XXIII Roncalli Foundation here.