We are FCC - Nº3

The construction of the new airport terminal in Mexico City was awarded to a consortium led by Grupo Carso in which FCC and other companies in the sector also participate. The con- sortium will build the terminal building of the new international airport for Mexico City (NAICM) in the Federal District of Lake Texcoco after submit- ting the best economic and technical bid. The contract is worth 84.8 billion Mexican pesos (4.2 billion dollars / 3.925 billion euros) and will have a 44 month completion deadline. The contract award is for the cons- truction of a building with an area of 743,000 square metres over four floors on a plot of land measuring 4, 430 hectares. Arrivals, baggage reclaim and all services relating to ground handling and the baggage handling system will be located on the first floor. This level will also include access to the car park, the flight infor- mation area, the short stay car park and access to the Metro from the Ground Transportation Centre. The second floor will be used for in- ternational arrivals, immigration and the flight transfer area. Departures will be located on the third floor which will have a large central shopping area, departure passageways and an area reserved for Pre-clearance. Lastly, the fourth floor will include a car park, the check-in area and secu- rity control. In Mexico, the most important projects of FCC Industrial under construction are the underground high-voltage, double-circuit 15 medium power (MP) lines and the GIS Substation in Cam- peche; two 115 kV electrical substa- tions of 73km of overhead simple cir- cuit line and 23 km of double circuit overhead line in Tamaulipas, both of which were commissioned by CFE (Mexican Federal Electricity Commis- sion). The Company is also building the Samalayuca-Sásabe Gas Pipeli- ne in Mexico. In the Dominican Republic, the Com- pany is involved in the refurbishing the distribution networks and in up- grading the electricity meter systems for the State company CDEEE (Cor- poración Dominicana de Empresas Eléctricas Estatales). The U.S., a market for the Environ- ment division The United States is a growth market for FCC. In recent years, the environ- mental division of the FCC Group has been awarded major contracts. The first of these was in Texas and it invol- ved the transport of bio-solid waste in the city of Houston, the construction and management of the new Mate- rials Recycling Facility (MRF) at the McCommas Bluff Landfill installations in the southern part of Dallas, the treatment and marketing of all recy- clable waste in University Park. This year, the company was awarded two new contracts in Texas, in Mesquite and in Garland. FCC was also awar- ded two contracts for the collection of solid urban waste in Polk and in Orange County, both in the State of Florida. FCC Construcción in the United Sta- tes is also executing the Gerald Des- mond Bridge in Los Angeles which includes the design, the replacement of the former bridge and the construc- tion of a new one in Long Beach. The new cable-stayed bridge has a main span of 305 metres. With all of these projects underway, the American continent has become of the main markets on which the FCC Group is focusing its efforts. In a short period of time, the environment, end-to-end water management in- frastructures activities have become very relevant in Latin America and in the United States, becoming one of the best citizen services companies in the region.