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1900 1910 of Fomento de Obras y Construcciones.
Signature of the deed of incorporation
Barcelona.

The birth

of a great enterprise

FCC has consolidated its position as one of the leading companies in public services, specialising
in environmental services, integrated water cycle management, infrastructure construction and
management, as well as the production of the associated materials. Today's FCC has inherited the
experience built up by a corporate Group which has been an outstanding witness of over a century
of history.

1900

The company Fomento de Obras y Construcciones, S.A. was early years of the business, as an essential element in shaping the
founded in Barcelona in July 1900. It started out as a construction development of construction, given the need to have a supply of
firm initially focused on expanding the port of the Catalan capital, materials that could be quarried nearby.
and undertook a number of construction projects on the city’s
sewerage system. Mr Agustín Viñamata Vilaseca was named Chairperson of the
Board of Directors, the chief executive of the company being the
It was founded with a capital stock of five million pesetas, Managing Director, Mr Salvador Piera Jané.
represented by 10,000 shares, of which 7,000 were released and
the remaining 3,000 held as treasury stock. The shares were first
listed on the Stock Exchange in December 1900. “ Founded in Barcelona,

The new company took over all the assets and liabilities of the on 3 July 1900 ”
enterprise “Piera, Cortinas y Compañía, Sociedad Colectiva”, the
owner of a number of plots of land on the hillside of Montjuïc in
Barcelona, amounting to 100 hectares and home to the company’s
quarries, which alongside those in Caldes de Montbuï, likewise in
the province of Barcelona, were to be particularly important in the

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