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1970 1980 treatment plant. Madrid.
El Atazar waste water

We make inroads into the integrated

water management cycle market Operations began at the
expanded La China water
treatment plant, in Madrid.
During the decade we realised how precious an asset water is, and addressed the The facility, originally We built the drinking water
challenge of delivering running water to all homes through sustainable resource contracted from FCC in 1932, treatment plant at El Atazar
management. This new venture resulted in Aqualia, which is today one of the world’s underwent subsequent in Madrid, the largest in
leading integrated water cycle management companies. extensions in 1969 and in the operation in the world at the
1980s, likewise performed by time, after the Moscow plant
the company. in Russia.

1970

We began work on the We were awarded our first
Torre de Colón skyscraper in major overseas construction
Barcelona, with 27 storeys contract, to lay 640 kilometres
above ground. of coaxial cable ducting for
the telephone network in
FCC built the traffic junction Tripoli, Libya.
on Plaza Fernando de
Lesseps, in Barcelona. In 1972 our Group ventured
into the integrated water
Our construction of cycle management market,
Barcelona's first urban tunnel winning a service contract
under the Turó de la Rovira in Linares, in the Spanish
La Rovira tunnel. hill marked the start of the province of Jaén.
Barcelona. Catalan capital’s Tibidao
Tunnels Plan. Cleaner-sweeper
truck of the street
cleaning service in
Torre de Colón. Barcelona. Valencia.

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