FCC, the Citizen Services Group, has achieved a new milestone in international construction. The company has been awarded one of the contracts to build the Riyadh metro (Saudi Arabia), which has an estimated budget of over 16.3 billion euro, i.e. 2.5 times the cost of the Medina-Mecca railway. This is the largest inter...
Today the Barcelona city government awarded Esther Koplowitz the Gold Medal for Scientific Merit, the city's highest distinction, in recognition of her extraordinary philanthropic work to promote science, and biomedical research in particular. This medal recognizes her efforts at the helm of the Esther Koplowitz Found...
In a context of a sharp decline in demand in Spain, Cementos Portland Valderrivas (CPV) reduced losses by 98.9%, to 0.6 million euro, compared with losses of 48.6 million euro in the first half of 2012. CPV also swapped assets with Irish company CRH in 1H13, which provided capital gains of 104.8 million euro.
An agreeme...
On 18 July, the Board of Directors of FCC, chaired by Esther Alcocer Koplowitz, accepted the resignations of directors Antonio Pérez Colmenero, Javier Rivas and Nicolás Redondo Terreros, and appointed Olivier Orsini, Gustavo Villapalos Salas and Gonzalo Rodríguez Mourullo, all of them independent directors, by co-optat...
FCC has made further progress towards meeting the objectives in its Strategic Plan. The company has reached an agreement to sell 49% of water company SmVak, in the Czech Republic, to Mitsui for 97 million euro. The transaction includes SmVak's water and infrastructure development activities, conducted through FCC subsi...