FCC has been awarded twice by the College of Civil, Canal and Port Engineers of Madrid at the ceremony held yesterday at the Casa de América in Madrid at the 2015 annual awards ceremony. Construction of the Sector connection roads AR Tres Cantos has been the best Municipal public work; in addition, line 1 of the Panama Metro, which has received the second prize for the best work abroad.

This award for the roads of Tres Cantos has been presented by Pedro Rollán, Minister of Transport, Housing and Infrastructures of the Community of Madrid, Jesús Moreno, mayor of Tres Cantos, and Miguel Jurado, president of FCC Construcción.

Jesús Moreno, has highlighted that "the construction of these roads and the connection with the M-607 facilitate mobility and access to services for more than 30,000 Madrid residents", he stated. The jury has highlighted the complexity of this project and the solutions provided to facilitate access and evacuation of traffic generated by the implementation and development of the New Sector A.R. of Three Songs. Miguel Jurado, president of FCC Construcción, has added that this work is a great engineering work in which the FCC teams have built links to save the crossings with other existing infrastructures, such as the M-607 itself, the High-Speed ​​railway lines Madrid – Valladolid and the services of Canal de Isabel II.

This award comes in addition to the one that FCC received three years ago for the Nuevo Tres Cantos urban complex in which 45,000 residents already live and in the future it is expected to reach up to 65,000.

Best Project Abroad

In addition, a second prize has been awarded to the project "Line 1 of the Panama Metro", promoted by the Secretariat of the Panama Metro (SMP) and developed by FCC, highlighting this ambitious engineering project that benefits more than one million people and that it was built in record time, less than three years. Vicente Mohedano, general director of FCC Construcción, has accepted the award and has affirmed that engineering is at the service of society and that with this work we have substantially improved the lives of Panamanian citizens, the route between the two terminus stations is carried out in 23 minutes.

The event was attended by more than 250 people, including the top managers of the large Spanish construction and engineering companies. Miguel Ángel Carrillo, dean of the Demarcation of Madrid, has made the opening. In his speech, he asked the next Government of Spain for "productive investment in infrastructure, in the country and in our region." The act was closed by Jesús Posada, president of the Congress of Deputies, who has pointed out that "Road engineering provides economic dynamism, quality of life and the external image of Spain", noting that Spanish engineering is present in some of the projects most important in the world such as the AVE from Medina to Mecca, the expansion of the Panama Canal.