Girona City Council has given the green light to the award of the contract for resurfacing Bisbe Sivilla Street to the temporary business association formed by Copisa, Tecsa, Dragados and FCC for €1.6 million.

Cerdanyola del Vallès Town Council has awarded Copisa the contract to refurbish the Altis building to turn it into the town’s main library. The remodelling will encompass 3,185 m² of gross floor area and the contract award comes to €3.5 million.

The construction of the Cañaveral-Alcántara Reservoir subsection crosses the River Tajo in an area where, due to the influence of the Alcántara reservoir, the river’s channel widens. To cross it this viaduct was designed, intended to be used by freight and passenger traffic with standard gauge double track and a subgrade 14 m wide. Known as the Alcántara Viaduct, it is 1,488 m long. It was designed with a central arch span measuring 324 m with a height above the average level of the river of more than 90 m, and once completed will become one of the arches of its kind with the longest span used for high-speed rail. Work on the track subgrade in this subsection was awarded in February 2011 to the consortium made up of Copisa and Sociedad Anónima de Obras y Servicios (Copasa) at a total cost of €64,850,200.

Barcelona City Council has awarded Copisa the contract for work under the final design for the redevelopment of Balmes Street, between Travessera de Gràcia and Diagonal Avenue, and the redevelopment of Balmes Street, between Molina Square and Travessera de Gràcia, in the Sarrià and Sant Gervasi districts in Barcelona for €2.8 million.

Construction firm Copisa has been awarded the €13.9 million contract for the construction of sewers and storm-water tanks at the Badajoz wastewater treatment plant. Specifically, Copisa is to upgrade the sewer on the left bank of the Rivillas-Calamón, build a new one on the left bank of the River Guadiana, and construct two storm-water tanks with a capacity of more than 20,000 cubic metres to store rain water before it is treated. The entire project of the Ministry of Agriculture has a budget coming to €31.6 million.

Barcelona City Council has awarded Copisa the €3.5 million contract for work to upgrade drainage in Paral·lel Avenue, Ronda Sant Pau and Vilà i Vilà Street in Barcelona.

Vilanova Grand Marina-Barcelona, a Copisa Group company, is among the ten most attractive ports in Europe. The Marcopolo editorial team has put the marina in tenth place and underlines its expertise in superyachts, its location near Barcelona at the foot of the Garraf Natural Park, and its state-of-the-art tech services that cater for the most demanding needs. The classification is headed by Capri’s Marina Grande, followed by Portofino in the Italian region of Liguria. The inclusion of Vilanova Grand Marina-Barcelona in the ranking of the 10 most attractive ports in Europe once again demonstrates the international recognition enjoyed by this marina, which after four years of operations has established itself as a benchmark for large yachts in the Mediterranean.

Copisa is building the new marina in the port of Blanes under the new concession and annexed areas A and B in Girona. The contract award comes to €5.6 million and among other activities involves the expansion of the central quay, installing new lines, fingers and ramps, remodelling the current West quay and Moll de Ribera, dismantling the existing petrol station and installing a new one as well as building technical and sports facilities.

VIASFALT, a Grupo Copisa company, is tasked with laying SMA (Stone Mastic Asphalt), a solution featuring increased resistance to cracking and buckling compared to conventional asphalt mixtures. Due to the high stress to which the Terminal pavement at the South Pier in the Port of Barcelona is subjected, a working group was set up led by Grup TCB engineers, together with the design engineering firm (IDOM), the fibre supplier company (Rettenmaier Ibérica) and in partnership with the laying company (VIASFALT), to design a pavement with specific solutions in the asphalt roadway layers and treatment for the yard top layers. This reduces investment by 14% compared to conventional asphalt roadway solutions while also cutting maintenance costs. The pavement is being laid on roads in the 24 new hectares which under the expansion plan will become part of the Barcelona Container Terminal in the coming months. In lockstep with this upgrading, the TCB expansion project carried out by COPISA and VIASFALT includes extending the mooring line by 150 metres up to a length of 1,515 metres, setting up two separate accesses for the entry and exit of cargo to the Terminal and installing six automatic doors fitted with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. After these measures have been put in place container movements are expected to increase up to a capacity of 2.3 million TEUs.

The project, which will get underway in the coming days in a consortium with other local construction firms in the South American country, is set to take two years. This award is the first to be made by MINSA (Ministry of Health) in a single contract and involves both the construction of the building and its systems as well as the provision of all medical equipment. The new five-storey building will have a total floor area of 20,000 m² laid out in a large main entrance hall surrounded by interior courtyards with natural light, an A&E department, 38 doctor’s surgeries, six operating theatres fitted with the latest equipment for clinical diagnosis and 155 inpatient beds. It is also to feature parking areas outside and inside the building. Copisa is to put in all the electrical wiring. This is the first project to be carried out by the construction firm Copisa in Peru where it has had an office in the country’s capital since 2011.