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Josep Sánchez Llibre, President of Fomento gave the welcoming speech at the event, chaired by Francisco Gutierre, and conclu- ded by Janet Sanz, Second Deputy Mayor of Barcelona City Council; Damià Calvet, Minister of Territory and Sustainability of the Generali- tat; and Pedro Saura, Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda. The panel of judges also valued the improved mobility for users genera- ted by the Vallirana bypass on an access road to Barcelona, as it pre- vents up to 19,000 vehicles a day, 4,000 of which are high-tonnage trucks, from circulating through the center of the town. The Vallirana Bypass project (B-24) , executed by FCC Construcción, was awarded the “Best Infrastructure 2019” prize AWARD FOR THE MOST INNOVATIVE TUNNEL IN EUROPE The panel of judges valued the technical difficulty of the Vallirana bypass, the incorporation into the tunnel of state-of-the- art safety measures, the environmental integration of the work, the improvement of user mobility on an access road to Barcelona and the great impact on the inhabitants of Vallirana, because with the bypass it prevents up to 19,000 vehicles a day, 4,000 of them heavy trucks, from circulating through the center of the town. The Vallirana Bypass project (B- 24), executed by FCC Construc- ción, has won the award for “Best Infrastructure 2019”. The award was given for the technical difficul - ty, the incorporation of the latest generation of safety measures in the tunnel and the environmental integration of the project. The distinction has been delivered during the celebration of the fourth edition of the Infrastructure Night, organized by the Advisory Council on Infrastructure of Catalonia, a co- llegiate body that aims to analyze, evaluate, discuss and propose ini- tiatives and public policies in the field of infrastructure, which took place in the auditorium of the em- ployers’ association Foment del Treball. I N N O V A T I O N 56 I N N O V A T I O N