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The last four caissons manufactured
in Algeria on their way to Brazil
FCC honoured with the international Green Apple Awards
for the construction of a hospital in Enniskillen
FCC won the Silver Green Apple Award in
the category for improvement of the envi-
ronment and architectural heritage thanks
to the construction of the New South West
Acute Hospital in Enniskillen (Northern Ire-
land). The Green Apple awards recognise
best environmental practices and are gi-
ven by the Green Organization, an initiative
launched in the United Kingdom in 1994.
FCC competed with another 200 candida-
tes for the Green apple Award in the natio-
nal campaign to select the greenest com-
panies, commissions, and communities in
the United Kingdom.
This is the third international prize awarded to this hospital in Northern Ireland
The Green Apple Awards began in 1994 and
have become established as the country’s
major recognition for environmental endea-
vour among companies, councils, commu-
nities and countries. Previous winners inclu-
de the United Nations, BBC, Balfour Beatty,
Carillion, Lafarge, Cemex and Jaguar. The
Green Apple award is the second one that
was given to this project. Recently, the En-
gineering News Record magazine, which
picks out the best projects worldwide, gave
FCC the ENR Global Best Project Awards
2013 merit prize in the health category for
the construction of this hospital in Northern
Ireland. The project also received other
ENR Magazine award
FCC Construcción received the Merit Award in the Health category at the ENR Global Best
Projects 2013 Awards, for the building of the New Acute Hospital for the South West, Ennis-
killen Hospital, in Northern Ireland.
At the ceremony held in New York on the evening of June 6th, Pedro Carlos Vega, Regional
Director of FCC Construcción in the USA, accompanied by Jesús de la Fuente, Develop-
ment Manager for North America accepted the award from Scott Blair, the Editor of ENR
California, who first voiced his praise for the civil engineering company’s work on the project
at the ceremony held in New York City on 6 June 2013.
These awards are given out by Engineering News-Record (ENR), the leading construction
and engineering sector publication. Recognition is given to construction projects based on a
number of criteria including safety issues, innovative design solutions, teamwork and respon-
se to the challenges involved, contribution to the industry and the community and the quality
of the design, construction and craftsmanship.
The caissons will be used for the foundations
of the Açu Port jointly with the other five cais-
sons already shipped to Brazil in mid April to
start work at the Brazilian harbour located
315 kilometres north of Rio de Janeiro.
The rectangular 45 metre-long, 24 metre
wide, and 18 metre tall caissons have a vo-
lume of 3,700 cubic meters of concrete and
weigh 10,000 tonnes.
The caissons were loaded on the HYSY
278 semi-submersible vessel owned by the
company Dockwise. It was partially sub-
merged about 12 metres for the loading
operations and once all the caissons were
on board, the vessel emerged to the surface
again. The caissons secured to the deck of
the vessel using welded steel plates to pre-
vent movement during the journey.
awards as the best designed and most
operational project in London, as well as
the PPP Bulletin Awards, the price given by
PPP magazine in May 2013.
For further information:
http://www.fccco.es/
construccion/actua-
lidad/CSCP080090.
html?iddc=CSCP080090
To be used for the
construction of the Açu Port