The Spanish heavy construction company celebrated yesterday the 40th anniversary of its creation, during which it has generated a portfolio of concession assets valued at over 4.3 billion € and has built more than 7,000 kilometres of roads and 1,100 kilometres of railway tracks, of which 340 km correspond to high speed.
The group, which was founded in 1986 as a Public Limited Company for Roads and Irrigation, has maintained, over these years, its commitment to the transformation of society through projects that have a positive social, economic, and environmental impact.
Currently, the company ranks as the third largest transport infrastructure developer in the world after executing projects in more than 20 countries and has put into service over 100 assets developed through public-private collaboration.
Sacyr has also constructed 200 km of metro and tram; more than 400 km of tunnels; over 10,000 hospital beds; more than one million square metres of airport terminals; 27 km of runways and more than 100 water treatment plants.
Among Sacyr's most notable projects over these 40 years, due to their innovative and transformative capacity, are the Los Vilos-La Serena motorway, its first concession in Chile and the project with which it began its international expansion, the Third Set of Locks of the Panama Canal, one of the greatest engineering challenges it has faced, or the new hospitalisation building and technical block of the 12 de Octubre Hospital, which was constructed without interfering with the existing centre.
The president of Sacyr, Manuel Manrique, has highlighted the ambition of the Spanish multinational to consolidate its leadership in the fields of social, water, and transport works, coinciding with the commemoration of its three decades of commercial activity in Chile.