•  Revenues will exceed 106 million euro

The city government of Telde (Canary Islands) has awarded FCC a 15-year contract for street and beach cleaning, waste collection and related services. The contract is worth more than 106 million euro.

FCC will invest over 8.2 million euro in the construction of a new 5,000-m2 depot and the purchase of vehicles and assets.

Among other measures, FCC will acquire 22 vehicles for solid waste collection, 32 vehicles for street and beach cleaning and inspection and approximately 3,000 litter bins and 2,500 skips.

All vehicles will be equipped with GPS and will have side loading systems for most overground waste skips.

Telde has a population of close to 100,000 and is the fourth-largest municipality in the Canary Islands. FCC has been providing waste collection and treatment, street cleaning, facility cleaning and green zone maintenance services in the Canary Islands since 1985.

On the island of Gran Canaria, the company operates in the municipalities of Las Palmas, Santa Brígida and Teror, and also works for the island government of Gran Canaria and Las Palmas Port Authority. In Fuerteventura, FCC serves Puerto del Rosario, La Oliva and Pájara and also works with the island government; in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, it operates in Güímar and Guía de Isora.

Leaders in Urban Sanitation

In 2008, FCC was awarded contracts totalling 2.887 billion euro for urban sanitation activities in Spain (waste collection, street cleaning, municipal waste management, facility management, garden maintenance, sewer cleaning, etc.), i.e. twice the 2007 figure.

FCC provides urban sanitation services (waste collection, street cleaning, municipal waste management, garden cleaning, etc.) in 3,597 of Spain's 8,100 municipalities, where it billed 1.440 billion euro in 2008, compared with 1.350 billion euro in 2007. The company serves 27 million people.

In 2008, revenues from the above-mentioned services in Spain totalled 2.498 billion euro.

FCC's backlog in this area has expanded steadily and now amounts to 8.926 billion euro, i.e. 21.7% more than at 2007 year-end and equivalent to 70 months' work.

Outside Spain, FCC operates in Central and Eastern Europe, the UK and Latin America.