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Barcelona City Council once
                                                                                         again contracted FCC for the
                                                                                         cleaning and maintenance
                                                                                         of the city's drains network,
          We constructed the floating                                                    a service that the company
          dock at the La Condamine                                                       had been performing without
          Port, the largest in the world,                                                interruption since 1911, and            Waste Recycling Group, the   We won a 900-million-euro
          manufactured as an ad                                                          which had marked the start of           leading British urban waste   contract to manage urban
          hoc project in a dry dock in                                                   the Group's diversification.            management business was   waste in the municipalities
          Algeciras Bay, Cadiz, before                                                                                           acquired, and is now known   of Reading, Bracknell Forest
          being transported to its site                                                  Our Group began operations              as FCC Environment.       and Wokingham in southern
          in Monaco. Having travelled                                                    in Eastern Europe through                                         England.
          a little over 1,500 kilometres                                                 the acquisition of leading              Cementos Portland
          by sea, it arrived in the                                                      regional waste management               Valderrivas purchased the   The Allianz Arena stadium
          Mediterranean principality on                                                  company A.S.A., now named               Catalan cement manufacturer   was built in Munich, the
          26 August 2002.           Floating dock in Monaco.                             FCE Environment CEE.                    Uniland.                  largest anywhere in Germany.  Lock at the port of Seville.














          The state-owned Algerian   Bilbao City Council awarded                             Drains maintenance. Barcelona.                                                                                     We acquired the Czech
          Energy Company (AEC)      us the city's urban sanitation                                                                                                                                              company SmVaK, specialising
          awarded FCC the contract for   concession contract for                                                                                                                                                in water management.
          the design, construction and   a period of seven years.
          management of two macro                                                                                                                                                                               We once again won the waste
          seawater desalination plants   In 2005, Esther Koplowitz                                                                                                                                              collection tender for central
          in Algeria.               strengthened the alliance                                                                                                                                                   Madrid.
                                    with Ibersuizas and allowed
          The Seville Port Authority   the Faustino Group to acquire
          contracted FCC for the    a stake in the company.                                                                                                                                                     Portland Valderrivas obtained
          construction work on the new                                                                                                                                                                          energy certification for its El
          access routes to the Port of   A consortium led by                                                                                                                                                    Alto plant in Madrid.
          Seville.                  FCC Construcción won the
                                    competitive tender organised
          Cementos Portland         by the Regional Government
          Valderrivas launched a    of Andalusia to build and run
          takeover bid to acquire 100%   Malaga Metro Lines 1 and 2
          of Cementos Lemona.       for 35 years.                                                                                                                              El Alto cement plant in Morata de Tajuña. Madrid.

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