The Lieberman Prize for Best Works Project is an annual award which acknowledges and praises the professional skills, effort and creativity of a construction company, with regards to the following: overcoming problems, organisation, staff skills and integration, excellent quality, construction solutions, profitability, use of appropriate methods and technology to achieve the Best Works Project.

The awards ceremony took place on 11 March at 9 am in the Expo Bancomer de Santa Fé, in the city of Mexico, and were presented by the Secretary of Communications and Transport, Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, the Under-Secretary of Infrastructure of the SCT, Raul Murrieta Cummings; the President of the Mexican Chamber of Construction Industry (CMIC), Gustavo Arballo; the former President of the Chamber, Luis Zárate Roche; the President of the College of Civil Engineers of Mexico, Víctor Ortíz Ensástegui; Eugenia Hernández de Lieberman (widow of Leopoldo Lieberman, Eng.); Chairman of the Board of Directors of ICA, Bernardo Quintana Isaac; Gilberto Borja Suárez (son of the engineer Gilberto Borja Navarrete who gives his name to the viaduct), among other figures.

Attending on behalf of FCC were: Eugenio del Barrio Gómez, Head of Business Development in Latin America; Enrique Díaz Valdés, Country Manager at FCC Construcción Mexico; David Arribas Mazarracín, Head of Department of Bridges 1 (Structures) of FCC Technical Services; Rafael Carrasco Ruiz de la Fuente, Head of Technical Services of FCC Construcción Mexico; and Daniel Carmona Campos, Head of Construction Division at FCC Mexico.

In the evening, David Arribas took part in the technical presentation concerning the bridge, given that it was entirely erected by the Technical Services of FCC Construcción. During this workshop, he presented the engineering project and its development to the audience.

San Marcos: the second tallest viaduct worldwide

The most unique structure of the project is the San Marcos Viaduct, which was named after the Engineer Gilberto Borja Navarrete, and crosses the San Marcos river. It has the highest column in America and the second highest worldwide, reaching 225 metres in height and 850 metres in length divided into 7 different bridge spans of up to 180 metres. When laying the foundations of the highest column, six thousand cubic metres of concrete were poured at once, out of the 64,000 used for the entire viaduct. More than 10,000 tonnes of steel were used and excavation works of 350,000 m3 were carried out to facilitate the laying of the foundations.

Nuevo Necaxa Motorway

The 85 km-long motorway between Nuevo Necaxa and Tihuatlán, crosses the states of Puebla and Veracruz, forming part of the 283 km-long Mexico-Tuxpan corridor, the main road axis which joins Mexico DF with the gulf of Mexico.

The road offers the shortest route from Mexico City to the sea, touching upon Tuxpan with beach tourist areas, the Port of Tuxpan, the important petroleum region of Poza Rica and the connection with the axis that goes to Tampico-Matamoros-Reynosa and the United States at the border of Brownsville (Texas).