Copisa Industrial, Grupo Copisa’s industrial division, has recently completed work on the construction of a combined cycle thermal power plant in the town of Maasbracht in the Netherlands. The project was awarded to Alstom Power, the energy division of French group Alstom, by electric utility Essent and its total cost has come to €36 million. Work began in December 2009 and took two years. Copisa Industrial has been responsible for the prefabrication of piping and auxiliary structures at its workshops in Tarragona and their subsequent assembly at the plant in the Netherlands, which has required the support of 500 workers of different nationalities (Spanish, Hungarian, Polish and Dutch).

Copisa has received an Honourable Mention as the builder of the “Protection and Environmental Upgrading Works on the Serpis River as it passes through Gandia: the city overlooking the river” at the 5th Segovia Aqueduct Awards presented by the Association of Civil Engineers.

Work on the comprehensive refurbishment of the Santo Domingo Cloisters, a monumental ensemble that has been closed for almost thirteen years, has been completed. Copisa and Tarje were the successful bidders in the tender for the contract which involved implementing the planning project drawn up by municipal architect Juan Ramón Díaz Pinto. The last phase of construction in the former convent of Santo Domingo consisted of the completion of the refurbishment of the rooms and most iconic elements of the building such as the anterefectory.

The Caransebes ring-road was opened this Thursday at a ceremony attended by Alexandru Nazare, State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. It is 12.08 km long and has been built by Copisa.

The General Directorate of Roads in the Ministry of Development has awarded additional work on the section of the N-260 Eje Pirenaico highway between Sabiñánigo and Fiscal to a Copisa and Vialex Roldán Constructora Aragonesa temporary consortium. The project, worth more than €18.4 million, consists of the environmental integration of embankments, building tunnel installations in compliance with current regulations and other supplementary work.

The Ministry of Public Works has awarded to the Natur System company the works of restoration of the Arab Baths beneath the Palacio de los Condes de Villardompardo in Jaén, which will be used to house the Provincial Tourist Routes Interpretation Centre. This action forms part of the programme of recovering heritage elements for use as cultural, educational and museum amenities, promulgated by the Secretary of State for Housing and Urban Actions.

The Joint Venture formed by Copisa and Ferrovial has won the award of the first phase of the future plans for Iberpotash, the mining company, consisting of the construction of a ramp four and a half kilometres long, which will allow the company to increase the volume of potash and salt extracted. The works will take two years, at a cost of 45 million euro.

Copisa has been granted the underground and roof work for Boulevard Al Mouqaouama, between Abdelkrim Al Khattabi Road and Boulevard Mohamed V in Morocco. The Boulevard is of great strategic importance for the development of the city’s arterial road system, meaning that over the 18 months that the work will take, there will be provisional deviations for traffic. The amount of the project allocated comes to 14 million Euros.

Copisa has obtained the R & amp; D & amp; i Management Certification, as well as the right to use the corresponding AENOR brand. The corporation, jointly, The EASA company, With successfully completed audits, By AENOR for the renewal of the Certificates of the Quality Management System Conforming; The UNE-EN ISO 9001: 2008 standard and the Environmental Management System according to the UNE-EN standard SO 14001: 2004.

Copisa will widen a section of the A-3 highway from two to three lanes in both directions, linking Rabat and Casablanca, the two most important cities in Morocco. The section to be widened is 22 kilometres long, the cost of the works amounts to 35 million and completion is scheduled for 28 months; two for preparation of the project and 26 months for its execution. According to details from the Moroccan Interior Ministry the highway between the two cities carries the heaviest traffic in the country.