The 2008 Fomento Quality Award for Building went to Torre Caja Madrid, by Zone 2, the Madrid Building 1 office. This skyscraper, designed by Norman Foster and raised in the former Real Madrid Sport City, is the city's tallest building, a jaw-dropping 250 metres high. It has two types of elevations. One is all glass, open and airy, looking south and north. The other is a stepped elevation looking east and west, comprised of a thin solid core and glassed-in floors.

Also in this category, an honourable mention went to the BANPRO Corporate Building, in the American Zone, built by subsidiary MSG-Nicaragua. The building's striking, elegant architectural design is by the Costa-Rican firm Zurcher Arquitectos. The building itself was built to an excellent quality standard and completed on time.

The 2008 Fomento Quality Award for Civil Works went to the work done by Zone 5, the Balearic Islands office, on a project to utilise the water resources of the Sierra de Tramontana. The job covered all building necessary to collect excess water from the Sierra de Tramontana and the infrastructure necessary to use that water to refill the S'Estremera aquifer. Also included were connections to the urban water systems of Sóller, Bunyola, Palmanyola and Palma de Mallorca. The average amount of water collected yearly by the new system is 10 Hm3, which is equal to nearly one-fourth of the amount of water the city of Palma de Mallorca consumes in one year.

The winners received a plaque made especially for this award by José Luis Sánchez, one of Spanish contemporary art's most important sculptors.

The 2008 Fomento Innovation Award was given to Prefabricados Delta for its work to automate the railway sleeper-manufacturing process. The project has made for improvements in more ways than one: It brings down production costs through automation; it enables activities to be followed more closely by increasing the number of log readings available and incorporating the appropriate alarms; it provides dimensional control of 100% of the sleepers made, so that any deviation appearing in a mould is immediately discovered; and it guarantees the traceability of the process, so that progress can be made toward computerising production data and thus facilitating subsequent data processing and data reporting to customers.

At the 2008 ceremony the title of 2008 Honorary Construction Manager was given to Juan Antonio Muro Murillo, who has spent nearly 37 years with FCC, during which time he forged a model organisation at the Machinery Department, and Jaime Redondo Vergé, who since 1973 has held different positions of responsibility in the company, up to his current post as manager of the Development and Management Department.

The ceremony, held at FCC's central offices in Torre Picasso, was attended by the award-winning offices, FCC Chairman and Managing Director Baldomero Falcones, Directors Fernando Falcó, Felipe García and Antonio Pérez Colmenero, and FCC Construcción Chairman José Mayor Oreja.