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FCC wins contract for Los Chinamos– El Ayote road improvement in Nicaragua FCC participates in two new contracts with ADIF to maintain the conventional railway system FCC Construcción receives New Civil Engineer Tunnelling award for the Bolaños tunnel FCC Construcción America participates in the cancer prevention campaign, “For the sake of your health, get a medical check-up on time” FCC Group’s infrastructure division has won the contract to im- prove the Los Chinamos–El Ayote road in Nicaragua. The project has a budget of €32 million and a completion time of 23 months. The client, the Nicaraguan Ministry of Transport and Infrastructu- re (MTI), has subdivided the project into two sections, with a total length of 39 kilometres. FCC Construcción, through its company specialising in railway work, Convensa (Con- tratas y Ventas), has won two new contracts to maintain the infrastructure and track on the conventional railway system in Spain. The timeline for the works is 24 months and the total budget of the contracts, in which Convensa participates, is more than €95 million for Lot 1 (central area) and Lot 6 (southern area). FCC Construcción receives award in the “Geotechnical Specialist Innovation of the Year” category at the New Civil Engineer Tunnelling Awards 2017 for its work on the Bo- laños tunnel on the Madrid-Galicia high-speed line. The project was also shortlisted in the “Technology Innovation of the year” and “Outstanding Contribution to a Project” categories. FCC Construcción America participated in the campaign for the prevention of breast and prostate “For the sake of your health, get a medical check-up on time.” The ob- jective of this initiative is to create awareness among all FCC Construcción stakeholders on the importance and the need to get regular medical check-ups taking into account the risk factors and symptoms of both of these types of cancer. FCC wins the bid to widen section I of the Inter-American Highway (Panama) The consortium FCC Corredor de las Playas I, formed by FCC Construcción and the operator CICSA (infras- tructures and construction division of the Grupo Car- so), has won the bid to widen the first section of the Inter-American Highway (Panama). The consortium had the best technical score and the best economic propo- sal for widening the Inter-American Highway to six lanes between La Chorrera and Santa Cruz in the province of Panama Oeste. The project to widen section I has an undertaking schedule of more than 20 months and a budget of $543 million. B R I E F B R I E F - C O N S T R U C T I O N 59 CONSTRUCTION