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1950 1960 company Brown-Raymond-Walsh
Plaque thanking the construction
for the work performed at the
Torrejón de Ardoz Base. Madrid.
As a result of the recent
agreements signed by the
Spanish and US governments,
Our Group helped modernise we were awarded the
construction of the Torrejón
Spain in the 1960s de Ardoz Airbase in Madrid.
The works included the
landing and take-off runway
At the mid-point of the century we understood the importance of transport and measuring 3,900 metres in
communications, and were involved in laying miles of highways, railways and metro length and 60 m wide, as well We undertook the
lines, while also specially in the management and upkeep of parks and gardens. as the taxiway of the same remodelling of Barcelona
length, plus three transverse Airport, now officially named Concreting of the runway at the
connecting routes and an Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Torrejón de Ardoz Airbase. Madrid.
aircraft apron. Prat.

1950

We built factories for SEAT In just 50 days FCC surfaced Our Group built the new Of the 160 vehicles used in
2
in the Barcelona Free a total of 21,000 m with telephone exchange on Barcelona to provide street
Trade Zone and for Pirelli in mosaic cobbles on the Plaza de Santo Domingo cleaning services, 36 were
Manresa, Barcelona. highway from Madrid to in Madrid, followed over motorised, most of them
France via La Junquera. subsequent years by more auto-sweeper machines.
We undertook the widening than 200 such facilities Horsepower remained the
of the section of the N-VI: The so-called “Zymothermic right across the country. main form of traction. The
Madrid-Coruña highway in Chambers” were installed in first waste bins were also
the vicinity of Madrid, the Zaragoza, the precursor of installed on Barcelona’s
very first stretch of modern waste recycling. pavements.
highway in Spain.

Zymothermic Chambers. Zaragoza. Estación de Francia.
Barcelona.

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