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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.

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 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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