Construction of educational centers in Costa Rica. Copisa will build three educational centers in Costa Rica. Copisa awarded the design, construction and equipment of three schools in Costa Rica. Works will begin in November and are expected to be finished in September 2018.

Construction of three educational centers in Costa Rica

Two of the centers, the High School Islas del Chirripó and the Vocational Technical School Las Colonias will be located in Sarapiquí, north of San José, while the third, High School Cascajal will be located in the Vásquez de Coronado Canton, east of the capital of the country.
It is planned to build a total of 10,000 square meters of roofed buildings, in covered passages between areas 1,644 square meters, 4,549 square meters of streets, parking lots, loading and unloading areas and sidewalks, and a total of 11,000 square meters of green areas.

Construction of the pedestrian bridge in La Pozuelo, San José. Costa Rica. The works will be executed by the company Copisa, who was in charge of the extension of the road between the factory La Pozuelo and the cemetery Jardines del Recuerdo, already in service.

Copisa starts the construction of the pedestrian bridge in Costa Rica

This pedestrian bridge will favor all the people who work in the shops and factories of the area, as visiting sites such as the Hospital Mexico and the General Bureau of Migration and Foreign Affairs will be safer from the point of view of road safety.

El País

International certifications Aenor. The construction group Copisa has started the procedures to obtain some of the most demanding international certifications of Aenor in the field of transparency and good governance.

International certifications Aenor

In a statement, the company states that in order to obtain certification (UNE-19601 for criminal compliance and ISO-37001 for prevention and fight against bribery), it has implemented “rigorous monitoring and control mechanisms for the prevention of inappropriate behavior.”

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Natur System finishes the rehabilitation of the facade of the Hotel Casa Fuster. The rehabilitation of the façade of the Hotel Casa Fuster, the first hotel in Barcelona turned into a monument, has been completed. The property Hoteles Center thanked the architecture studio GCA and Natur System, a company belonging to Grupo Copisa, “the exceptional way in which rehabilitation works have been carried out.”

Natur System finishes the rehabilitation of the facade of the Hotel Casa Fuster

The works have lasted six months, and the works of conservation of the different types of stone that make up the façade, among other actions, are highlighted.

La Vanguardia

The Minister of Development, Iñigo de la Serna, attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the works of the highway to access the El Musel Port at the section Lloreda Junction – Veriña Semi-junction. These works are included in the project from the Ministry of Development that will provide the El Musel Port with a new access to the state road network, which will reduce the traffic in the urban area of Gijón and will make the port more competitive by having a privileged position for maritime communications on the Cantabrian coast.
This project has been awarded to Copisa, in a Joint Venture with Sando, with an investment of 33.08 million euros.

Copisa has signed a four-year framework contract (from February 2017 to February 2021) with the Romanian oil company OMV Petrom to build and expand several refinery production fields in the country for a cumulative potential value of 170 million euros (766 million Leu).
The contract covers construction of the roads and drilling fields, surface equipment and any building materials, equipment and other materials needed to execute and rehabilitate the wells. The OMV Petrom production areas where the drilling wells will be built are located in the regions of Banat, Moldavia, Oltenia, Muntenia and Moesia. These installations join those that Copisa has already built in Portugal, both of them in the petrochemical sector.
With a 70% share, Copisa and its Romanian subsidiary COPISA Construtii SRL lead one of the consortiums that was awarded these framework contracts. In this way, the Catalan company has gained a client that is a European giant in oil, natural gas and combined-cycle electrical energy product, a leader in its sector in Central and Eastern Europe, namely OMV Petrom.

Société d’Aménagement de Zenata (SAZ) has awarded Copisa the contract to urbanise a new neighbourhood near Casablanca (Morocco), for a total outlay of 18 million euros.
The future homes of the inhabitants of several slum areas in the town of Sidi Bernoussi-Zenata will be built in this new neighbourhood.
The urbanisation project will consist of earthworks, sanitation and rainwater conduits, basins and holes where these networks can be checked and street construction, as well as the pavements, lighting and urban furniture.
With this new project, Copisa will be reinforcing its activity in Morocco, a country where the company has been awarded four projects in the past five months totalling around 32 million euros.

The Ministry of Public Works has awarded the Copisa-Sando joint venture the construction work on the A-68 motorway between the towns of Gallur and Mallén in Zaragoza. The project is estimated to take four and a half years, and the total amount earmarked for it is 41 million euros.

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El Periódico de Aragón

Copisa Group has concluded its participation in executing the Torito Hydroelectric Project, which is a project within the construction of the Torito Hydroelectric Plant in Costa Rica, owned by Global Power Generation, a subsidiary of the international generation of Gas Natural Fenosa. This plant is located in the province of Cartago, in the central-eastern region of the country. Located on the right bank of the Reventazón River, the plant generates 50 megawatts of power, bringing Costa Rica another step towards its goal of achieving 100% renewable energy production by 2021.
Copisa’s most important contributions to the project include the construction of the water intake, the construction of a water loading chamber fitting up to 125,000 cubic metres, the assembly of large-diameter steel tanks and tubing, and the construction of the building housing the machine room, which is 40 metres tall. The electrical substation measures 6,600 square metres in area and has a control building where the tension is elevated.

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has awarded to Copisa the project to build a new bridge over the Chagres River for a total of $8,890,424.91.
The project consists in designing and building a concrete bridge over the Chagres River, Gamboa, to the east of the old existing structure. It will be 278 metres long with eight clearings 34.75 metres wide each. Plus, it will have two traffic lanes (one in each direction) 3.65 metres wide each and a pedestrian walkway one metre wide.
The project includes the rigid concrete paved accesses on either end, which will connect to the existing roads.
In addition to benefiting the community, this bridge is essential for the Panama Canal to operate.