ACS, Acciona, FCC, Ferrovial, Sacyr and OHL are developing significant construction projects and increasing their trading outside of Spain.
Internationalization is the common denominator of the six large Spanish construction groups. Thanks to it, they were able to increase their foreign business by 18% in 2010, leaving them with an order book worth €27,547 million.
Highlighted among the large projects they received as part of their international expansion are the first line of Panama’s metro, won by FCC and worth €1,000 million, and the building of a railway tunnel more than four kilometers long in Australia, won by Acciona.
Acciona and ACS won the contract for a “frontier” highway between the United States and Canada worth €1,100 million. For its part, ACS–led by Florentino Pérez, President of Real Madrid–was awarded by itself a second highway in Canada (€600 million) as well as a new contract for New York’s subway (€324 million).
Sacyr Vallehermoso finished the year carrying out the first phase of the widening of the Panama Canal. It also won contracts to construct a highway in Chile and a new project in Angola.
OHL was able to enter Poland, Colombia, Kuwait, India (with a container terminal) and Canada (work on Toronto’s metro, along with FCC).
For its part, Ferrovial increased its order book with the construction of the new T2 at London’s Heathrow airport, and a stretch of a subterranean tunnel that will cross the British capital (“Crossrail”), in which FCC and ACS will also participate.
Ferrovial was also awarded a prize in the United States, given annually by the specialized magazine “Infrastructure Investor”, for one of its highways built in Texas, the LBJ Express. This project was worth $2,700 million, or €1,900 million. As a result, the company, led by Rafael del Pino, is one of the most highly recognized in the US.