Some of Portugal’s most important infrastructures bear our hallmark

For more than 70 years, the construction firm Somague, part of Sacyr Somague, has been developing major road, port, and sporting infrastructures in Portugal. The extension of Lisbon’s red subway line, the construction of the Basílica da Santíssima Trindade church in Fátima, and the building of the Estadio da Luz sports stadium are just three of its most emblematic projects.

Experts in overcoming challenges

At Sacyr, we know how to successfully tackle complex building and concessional management projects. In Portugal, leading examples include the Vasco da Gama bridge in Lisbon, the second longest in Europe, spanning 12.3 km in length.

We have also built the Foz Tua hydroelectricity plant (Bragança), which received The Year in Infrastructure 2018 award in the Energy Generation category.

We are also a leading company in the railroad construction sector. We are currently working on several projects, including a 40 km segment of the International South Corridor rail network.

In the P3 business, we currently manage three hospitals in Portugal: Braga, Vila de Xira and Isla Terceira, covering a total surface area of 240,000 square meters.

Experts in complex projects

Some of this country’s most recognizable infrastructures bear our hallmark. We have constructed huge buildings along with road, rail, airport, hydraulic and port infrastructures. The Torre Sacyr building in Madrid, Terminal 4 at Madrid-Barajas Adolfo Suárez Airport, several sections of the high speed railway, Valencia port, Las Pedrizas toll road, and the Seville subway system are a few of our most relevant projects.

Overcoming challenges since 1986

We are part of people’s lives in Spain. In Spain, we have built over 400 km of high speed railway lines, 4.5 billion euros invested in building highways and toll roads, more than 1.8 billion euros in airport works, hospital projects for more than 2 billion euros, hydraulic engineering works for more than 1 billion euros, and port projects representing an investment of 500 million euros.

We have road infrastructure concessions through which 145,000 vehicles pass every day (in the 8 expressways we manage in Spain alone), stretching over 446 km. Hospital and transport infrastructures add tremendous value to our activity. Furthermore, through Sacyr Agua, we supply water to more than a million people in Spain.

Through a team of more than 26,000 people, we provide services in over 700 municipalities and offer home help to more than 20,000 people. Our Facility Management services allowed us to become the first ever integrated contracts operator in the hospital sector. Finally, our restaurant brand, Cafestore, is the third largest roadside restaurant operator in Spain.

Operating in this important market since 2015 

Road, rail, and unique construction projects that comply with the highest quality and efficiency standards. In the UK, we create infrastructures that stand out also in terms of their innovation and sustainability. We carry out strategic projects with the collaboration of all our stakeholders: society, public and private administrations, local businesses, and non-profits, among others.

Cutting-edge sustainable projects

We have only recently entered the UK market, but our presence here is already defined by significant large-scale projects. We have built the second phase of the new Belfast campus, creating a more responsive space to the challenges of education in the future.

We have also built a new 4.7 km section of the Edinburgh tram network, between York Place and Newhaven, and improved the road network in Northern Ireland by building the A6 road between Dungiven and Drumahoe. 

Living Wage Employer

Sacyr UK&I is a Living Wage Employer. This certification attests to our Living Wage commitment seeing to that every Sacyr employee in the UK and Ireland makes at least a minimum hourly wage of £13.15.

The Living Wage rate is calculated and updated according to the costs of living. It provides a voluntary benchmark for employers that choose to ensure their staff earn a wage that meets the costs and pressures they face in their everyday lives. 

Katherine Chapman, Director, Living Wage Foundation said: “We’re delighted that Sacyr has joined the movement of over 14,000 responsible employers across the UK who voluntarily commit to go further than the government minimum to make sure all their staff earn enough to live on.

By adhering to this commitment, we recognize that paying the real Living Wage is the mark of a responsible employer. 

We bring our experience in infrastructure building and management

We love a challenge, and entering the US market was one of the milestones defined within our Strategic Plan 2015-2020. In 2018, we secured our first building contract in this country: to extend the SR82 highway in the State of Florida. Since then, we have developed  fourteen road building projects in the states of Florida and Texas.

In 2020, we secured our first P3: the management of the University of Idaho's utility systems. In 2023, we were awareded our first transportation infrastructure P3: the I-10 Calcasieu Bridge in Louisiana. At Sacyr, we are prepared to tackle many of the challenges that the United States face in the 21st century. 

New market, new challenges

The United States are one of our ‘priority’ markets in the Strategic Plan 2021-2025. So, we are always on the look out for any opportunities that might arise in the P3 sector, where we are global market leaders.

The US presents major challenges in in infrastructure, roads, housing, urban transport, and renewable energies development. Private-public partnerships (P3) are essential for the successful development of such projects. At Sacyr, we are ready, willing, and able to bring our leadership, innovation and added-value creating capacity.

A portfolio valued at more than €17 billion

In Italy, we operate through our subsidiary SIS, developing highly-technical supporting and sustainable projects. These are large-scale construction works, like the Pedemontana-Veneta, the Variante Tremezzina in Como, the new Policlinico hospital in Milan, the Palermo tram, a segment of the A3 Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway, the doubling of the Palermo–Orleans–Carini tramline section, or the road between Cesena and Claviere carry the Sacyr brand.

A relevant market for Sacyr

We are present in Italy since 2003, through infrastructure and road P3 projects, with high-technological capacity and a firm commitment to sustainability and efficiency. The Pedemontana-Veneta highway is one of our most notable interventions. This is the Group's largest road P3 and one of the contracts with the highest gross investment. This project, along with others underway, such as the Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena Hospital of Milan, provide an added value to our activity in Italy. 

Innovation is our hallmark

We believe in innovation as a responsible and sustainable business management model. In Australia, we develop infrastructures capable of exponentially improving integrated water cycle processes. We currently run the Binningup Desalination Plant.

Experts in civil engineering infrastructures

We first arrived in Brazil back in 2001, and we have built a strong presence in the country over the years. We have secured three major railway engineering contracts and have successfully completed large scale projects for transport infrastructure, residential building, and hydraulic engineering works, among others. Thanks to our energy and know-how, we have gained the trust of a globally strategic market.

Experience, competitiveness, and confidence

We currently manage three major railway projects in Brazil valued at more than 850 million euros. In Sao Paulo, we are expanding the No. 2 Metro Line, extending it by 8.3 km, and building eight new stations. We are also developing sections 1 and 2 of the North-South railway line, which improves connections to the north of the country. Lastly, we are building the Eastern Metro Line in Fortaleza, one of the most visited tourist destinations in Brazil.

Opening up an ocean of possibilities thanks to desalination

Our presence in Oman is linked to desalination, an activity in which we are an international market leader. In 2019, we launched our seawater desalination plant in Soha, on the coast of Al Batinah. This reverse osmosis plant is the second largest in the country. It can produce 250,000 m3 water a day and currently supplies close to 220,000 people.

Projects that improve the quality of life of Mexican people

In 2019, we completed several projects that will boost Mexico's economic development and improve quality of life there. These include the repair of 183 km of roads that are part of the main road access connecting the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, and the expansion of Terminal 2 at Mexico City International Airport. The projects also included 21.5 km of light rail tracks in Guadalajara, and 250 beds for more than 1 million patients at the Hospital General ISSSTE in Tláhuac.

Building bonds against Covid-19

We have joined forces with Ayuda en Acción México to buy and deliver food parcels and personal protection kits to the community of Singuilucan, in the state of Hidalgo.

The aim of this donation was to support the most vulnerable people by supplying food to meet their basic needs. We also wanted to promote good hygiene habits and self care to fight against Covid-19.

The total amount donated by Fundación Sacyr was MX$500,000, equivalent to €20,000.

This money supports 200 families and a total of 850 people in the communities of La Gloria (El Susto), La Lagunita, Las Palomas, Matías Rodríguez, Aguayutla, Tecoaco and Jalapilla, all located in the state of Hidalgo.

We excel in the construction and management of hospital infrastructures 

Back in 1996, when the P3 system was first implemented in Chile, we secured our first contract to build and operate the toll road between Los Vilos and La Serena. Since then, we have invested close to US$7 billion in various projects throughout our three business divisions, from Arica to Puerto Montt.

These include 2 airports, 14 roads, and 7 hospitals. Through our subsidiary company, Sacyr Concesiones Agua, we run four integrated water cycle management firms in the regions of Antofagasta and Metropolitana.

We offer our services to more than 550,000 people through 5 sanitation companies.  

Innovating to improve people's lives

We laid the first road surface in Chile that incorporates pre-treated pulverized rubber (RARx). This innovation allows us to repair and build roads with a lower environmental impact. The reason is that this material uses mixtures of polymers from scrapped tires. We estimate that, for every kilometer of road built using this technology, it’s possible to prevent approximately 100 bus and truck tires from ending up in landfills.

To develop and validate this technique, various trial sections had to be build at different sites managed by Sacyr within the Metropolitan region. 

These kinds of composite materials have already proven their functional and structural advantages, from a social, economic, and environmental perspective, in other countries. They reduce noise pollution, dampening down traffic noise by up to 5 decibels. They also increase the service life of the road surface and give a new lease of life to industrial waste such as scrapped tires, which can be reused to build and repair roads.

Railway construction

Sacyr entered the Canadian market in March 2021 with its first two construction projects. Sacyr Engineering and Infrastructures, with local partner Ledcor, will expand the platform of the fourth track of the Lakeshore East rail corridor in Toronto.

Throughout the development of these projects, Sacyr and Ledcor will work with the communities within the project’s scope of activity, abiding by the highest sustainability standards, and maximum respect for the environment and biodiversity.

With these contracts, Sacyr progresses in line with the 2021-2025 Strategic Plan roadmap to grow in North American markets.

We lead the infrastructure sector in Colombia

Sacyr set up as a Colombian company originating in Spain, with an investment of close to US$3 billion. We have been firmly committed to developing the country’s infrastructure, by working on more than ten P3 and engineering initiatives.

We have always prioritized the recruitment of local talent in the execution of more than 500 km of roads and civil engineering works, which have improved connectivity and economic development throughout Colombia.

We improve the quality of life of Colombian people 

In 2012, we consolidated our position by embarking on our first road projects. We currently have more than ten projects across the country and are always on the lookout for new business opportunities. We also participate in the street cleaning of Bogotá. 

Our presence in Colombia has created more than 13,000 jobs in our areas of influence, offering our employees the chance to improve their skills and grow professionally. 

The PY 02 is the most important road corridor in the country

The Ruta PY 02 highway, which will connect Asunción and Ciudad del Este, traverses the Central, Cordillera and Alto Paraná departments, and is a key project for the development of Paraguay. This corridor concentrates 65% of the country’s population and 70% of its economic activity. This project, 76% brownfield and 24% greenfield, executed by Sacyr Concesiones, will allow for a safer, more fluid traffic circulation.

A partnership to promote development

The PY 02 was the first Public-Private Partnership (P3) project we undertook in Paraguay. Its development is vital for the growth of Paraguay’s private sector, and it will draw in private capital from abroad. It will also bring new professional opportunities for companies and workers. 

The consortium developing the project, called Rutas del Este, is led by Sacyr Concesiones and also involves Ocho A. 

We provide quick, safe, and economical transport links between Paso de los Toros and Montevideo

Uruguay was incorporated into our map back in 2015, when a consortium led by Sacyr secured the contract for the Ruta 21 and Ruta 24 road P3.  

In 2019, we won the most important public-private investment project in the history of the country:  the Ferrocarril Central de Uruguay railroad network. This project connects the city of Paso de los Toros to Montevideo port. This intervention will cut travel times on this strategic route by half. 

Promoting the development and structural organization of the country

Transport infrastructures provide structure and cohesion to a country and generate wealth in the area. The Ruta 21 and Ruta 24 highways P3 will develop a fundamental axis in Uruguay’s transport links. These roads are the main corridor for the west coast, concentrating 50% of private vehicle movements in Uruguay.

The Ferrocarril Central is one of the most important railroad projects undertaken in the history of Sacyr, and we are participating through the consortium Grupo Vial Central (GVC). The budget for this project is €1 billion and will span 18 years (3 years of construction and 15 years of O&M).

It has already received numerous awards, these include the prestigious IJ Global award for its finance model. 

We are involved in emblematic projects

Some of the most emblematic projects in Peru in the last four years carry our signature. At the moment, we are concluding the second runway of Jorge Chávez International Airport and are about to begin the construction works of the new terminal for the expansion of this airport in Lima, which will make it into one of the most important hubs in Latin America.

In the mining industry, one of the major drivers of the Peruvian economy, Sacyr participates in the construction of the Quellaveco mine, hand in hand with Anglo American, one of the largest mining companies in the world, that is making an investment of more than US$ 8,000 million in Peru.

These two join another great project from 2019: the construction of the two central locations of the Panamerican and Para-panamerican games of Lima 2019 and the expansion of a refinery in La Pampilla for Repsol.

We consolidate our position in Peru

We have developed more than 20 engineering, infrastructure and industrial projects in Peru. We are currently a leading company in road conservation, with more than 2,200 km of roads. We operate the Longitudinal de la Sierra, Tramo 2, a 875-km P3 project of national interest, that will generate a sizeable positive impact on this region’s economy.

We also contribute to improving air quality, producing cleaner fuel and the training of thousands of people in road safety, hygiene, health, and environmental protection.