• Infrastructures

Lima's New Airport: Boosting Connectivity in Peru

In the ninth installment of our 40th-anniversary series, we take a look at one of Sacyr’s most significant airport projects: the expansion of Jorge Chávez International Airport.

For this new episode of the series dedicated to Sacyr’s 40th anniversary, we flew to Peru. There, we get an up-close look at the new terminal and the second runway at Lima’s Jorge Chávez International Airport, a key infrastructure project we’re building between 2020 and 2025 and through which we continue to celebrate our four decades of history.

In the video accompanying this article, our colleagues Miguel Ángel Lozano and David Brihuega walk us through the main challenges of a project that has doubled the airport’s capacity.

Working with a fully operational airport posed an enormous engineering, logistical, and planning challenge that our team handled exceptionally well.

Key project figures:

  • Doubled capacity: ready to handle up to 40 million passengers per year.
  • New passenger terminal: a modern facility covering 270,000 square meters.
  • Second runway: 3.5 kilometers long, transforming the country’saviation operations.

This landmark project in Lima is the ninth feature in our special anniversary series, an initiative that began earlier this year with the Los Vilos-La Serena Highway (Chile) and will highlight the global impact of our work throughout 2026.

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The Águilas Desalination Plant: A Milestone in Our Water Business

In the eighth installment of our series on Sacyr’s 40th anniversary, we travel to Murcia (Spain), where Noelia España, Fernando Donate, and Alberto Morales help us look back on the development of the Águilas wastewater treatment plant, one of the milestones that advanced our capabilities in the water sector.

With the construction of the Águilas desalination plant (2011–2013), we demonstrated our ability to tackle highly complex technical challenges and consolidated expertise that we have since applied to many other projects around the world.

Noelia España, Fernando Donate, and Alberto Morales help us explore this project and its impact on the surrounding environment as part of our Sacyr 40th-anniversary campaign.

This infrastructure ensures the water resources needed for agriculture in the Region of Murcia, one of the pillars of its economy.

This project is not just about water; it’s also about talent, vision, and the ability to anticipate future challenges. It’s about driving sustainable solutions through advanced energy recovery technologies and efficient systems that allow us to go further with a lower environmental impact.

More than a decade later, the Águilas desalination plant—the second-largest in Spain—remains a benchmark and an example of how the innovation, expertise, and commitment of our Sacyr Agua teams can turn a critical challenge into a solution for the future.

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Edinburgh Trams: A Journey Through the City's History and Future

The expansion of the Edinburgh tram system is the seventh flagship project in our series on Sacyr’s 40th anniversary. Together with Ana Palestina, Antonio Lainez, and Scott Sives, we review the main challenges of a project that connected the Scottish capital with its airport along a route steeped in history.

To continue celebrating our 40th anniversary, today we’re hopping on the Edinburgh tram, which connects the city to the airport and takes thousands of travelers to their destinations.

A journey through the history and future of the Scottish capital that we’re revisiting alongside some of its key figures.

The project faced demanding challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the excavation, conservation, and relocation of important archaeological finds. Among them were the original wheels from the first trams that ran through the city in the 19th century.

The project also included the reconstruction of a medieval wall, yet another example of how the development of modern infrastructure preserves and protects historical heritage.

The expansion of the Edinburgh tram system, developed by Sacyr, involved the construction of a new 4.7-kilometer section between York Place and Newhaven, with eight new stops. This extension improves the connection between the airport and the northern part of the city and serves nearly 16 million passengers a year.

Don’t miss the previous videos featuring the major projects in our 40th-anniversary series!

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  • Infrastructures

12 de Octubre Hospital: A Leading Medical Center Built in Record Time

We continue to celebrate our 40th anniversary with a series of videos in which we look back at some of our most iconic projects. Today, we take a look back at the construction of the new 12 de Octubre Hospital in Madrid, a leading healthcare facility in Spain with 41 operating rooms and more than 1,300 beds.

With this project, which we completed in December 2023, we overcame a particularly demanding challenge—not only because of the hospital’s size, but also because of the tight construction schedule of just 26 months. Throughout the construction process, we had to navigate extraordinary circumstances such as the COVID-19 pandemic, a transportation strike, and the war in Ukraine.

Together with two of the key figures involved—Pedro Gallego, Director of Hospital Construction, and Pedro Luis Rodríguez, Site Manager—we look back on the challenges, the teamwork, and the dedication of our professionals who made this major project possible.

The 12 de Octubre Hospital is the sixth flagship project in our series on Sacyr’s 40th anniversary, which we began in January with the Los Vilos-La Serena highway in Chile.

We invite you to discover it in this new video.

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