Somos FCC - Nº5

(From left to right.): Manuel Olivares, Director of FCC Construcción in Central America, Juan Felipe Igle- sias, Director of the IDAAN, David Díez, Aqualia Country Manager and Iván Moreno, Aqualia Technical Board representative. tion in the Burunga and Arraiján sec- tor, an area with limited sewage and wastewater treatment facilities. Improving living conditions The project, valued at around 85 mi- llion euros, involves the company’s entry in the Central American coun- try, where it will serve 130,000 in- Aqualia’s experience in managing public water services has been re- cognised by the IDAAN (Instituto de Acueductos y Alcantarillados Nacio- nales), which seeks to become a “pu- blic, model and efficient” company. Aqualia will be the company that will advise the Panama’s DAAN (national public entity responsible for water su- pply and purification) for the next five years, after having won the public tender organized by the Panamanian entity and with which the public com- pany seeks to gain efficiency. The purpose of the new contract won by Aqualia is the “consultancy and technical assistance to the IDAAN for the operational and commercial management in the area covering the regions of Metropolitan Pana- Second contract awarded in Panama: Aqualia to advise the Panamanian public water authority in its modernisation process The project is valued at 85 million euros habitants of the Arraiján district, in Panama’s central-west zone, impro- ving their living conditions. The contract includes the design of the first stage of the wastewater treatment plant with a projection for 2050 and capacity to treat 86,400 m3/day (1 m3/s) in five treatment modules for activated sludge and anaerobic digestion. Aqualia will un- dertake construction, operation and maintenance of the first stage with three treatment modules with a ca- pacity of 53,568 m3/ day (0.62 m3/s) for a period of 10 years. Additionally, the company will carry out the design, construction of the Trunk System and its interconnec- tions with existing networks, as well as the operation and maintenance for 10 years of the Burunga and Arraiján Cabecera Trunk System and sewage network. ma, Western Panama and Arraiján.” The contract, supported by the In- ter-American Development Bank (IDB), includes the undertaking of studies to improve this management, business plan, master aqueducts plan for the metropolitan area of Pa- nama, plan for re-engineering pro- cesses and structure for the central institution and personnel training. B U S I N E S S 18