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FCC in the United States
The Citizen Services Group is currently par-
ticipating in 9 billion dollars’ (about 6.82 bi-
llion Euros) worth of government tenders all
over the United States. And it is doing this
through its different business areas, infras-
tructure, services and energy.
FCC Construcción handled the I-95 Mia-
mi Express project, which had a budget of
121.5 million dollars and involved increasing
the number of lanes over a 17.7-kilometre
stretch of I-95 in northern Miami. The pro-
ject won two awards, Best in Construction
2010 in the Design and Construction cate-
The contracting
authorities describe
the winning bid as
“world class”
heart of the Terminal Island port complex
with the Port of Long Beach, and it provides
the way to get from the port to the centre
of the city and other nearby California lo-
cations.
The road across the bridge is designed
as a connecting road within the National
Highway System and forms part of the
Federal Strategic Highway Network. The
new bridge will improve traffic flow, increa-
se safety, provide jobs for more than 3,000
people a year and have a highly positive
impact on the economy of southern Cali-
fornia, and therefore on the economy of the
United States.
The project awarded to FCC involves the
design and construction of a new bridge
that will ease traffic conditions and improve
safety. The new bridge will be cable stayed,
305 metres long, with 61 metres of vertical
clearance above the Back Channel of the
Port of Long Beach. The bridge will have
three motor vehicle lanes in each direction,
emergency lanes on both sides for additio-
nal safety, a bike lane and a pedestrian lane.
West of the bridge, the horseshoe-shaped
Terminal Island East interchange connects
Ocean Boulevard with the port’s Pier T. To
the east, the interchange linking Ocean
Boulevard with Route 710, Pico Avenue
and piers E and D will be remodelled. Cons-
truction of the new bridge is scheduled to
be completed in 2016, one year before the
conclusion of the project as a whole.
gory from the Florida Transportation Buil-
ders’ Association (FTBA) and the one of the
America’s Transportation Awards 2009 from
AASHTO in the Innovative Management ca-
tegory.
The group’s environment subsidiary, FCC
Environmental, holds second place on the
list of the biggest companies in its sector in
the US. It is the leading provider of hydro-
carbon services on the east coast and the
Gulf coast and has over 30 facilities in 22
states. It recently launched a new initiative,
a novel mobile treatment service for oil and
gas prospecting operations. Among other
important jobs, FCC Environmental parti-
cipated in the work to clean up the Gulf of
Mexico after last year’s oil spill.
FCC’s options in the US market are not just
limited to infrastructure and concessions,
Cemusa, the FCC subsidiary that speciali-
zes in urban furniture, provides coverage for
over 12 million people in the cities of Boston
and New York. In September 2010 it ins-
talled the world’s first digital newsstands in
New York City’s Times Square, under a 20-
year contract clinched with the City of New
York in 2006.