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Grupo Puentes has been awarded the contract for the construction of the new Outpatients’ Department building at the Torrecárdenas University Hospital in Almería.
The Andalusian Regional Government, through the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), has awarded the contract for the construction of the new outpatient outpatients’ building at the Torrecárdenas de Almería university complex to the joint venture Puentes y Calzadas Infraestructuras SL, Lirola Ingeniería y Obras Sociedad Limitada;

The new volume will have a total usable area of 9,385.54 square metres distributed over seven floors plus a further 2,213.59 square metres of circulations

On 2 December 2022, the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, inaugurated the Comptroller General of the State (CGE) complex after the comprehensive rehabilitation necessary for the damage caused by the riots of 2019.

Grupo Puentes has won a major contract worth almost $250 million to design, build and finance the Corredor de las Playas highway in Panama, which is being promoted by the Ministry of Public Works. The award culminates a successful career in the execution of public infrastructures in this Central American country, which began just five years ago. The project consists of widening the La Chorrera-Santa Cruz section of the Playas Corridor, which is part of the Pan-American Highway, to six lanes. Located in the province of West Panama, the current road is the only one that connects the nation’s capital with the inland provinces, with a high intensity of vehicle traffic, which is why it has been decided that the improved road should be elevated, in order to separate local traffic from long-distance traffic.

The section to be built by Grupo Puentes is 7.5 kilometres long. In addition to increasing the number of lanes from four to six, the most important action will be to raise the La Chorrera viaduct, 1,756 metres long and 26.50 metres wide, with 43-metre spans and cemented at depth with 1.5-metre-diameter piles. The Spanish company will also build the La Chorrera interchange, consisting of a large roundabout over the dual carriageway, rehabilitate two pedestrian walkways and install a new one, in addition to other improvements.

The start of the works, for which Grupo Puentes has a completion period of 850 days. The Panamanian Ministry of Public Works has particularly valued the guarantees provided by the Spanish company to speed up construction. The quality and compliance demonstrated by Grupo Puentes in the execution of the Atalaya-Mariato road, Cabuya interchange and Caminos de Santiago and de Mesa projects, with a total value of more than 190 million dollars, also played an important role in the awarding of the contract.

On 12 January, Grupo Puentes began work for the Regional Government of Andalusia on the construction of the High Resolution Hospital in Roquetas de Mar, Almeria, which will be built by 2023.

On a plot of almost 50,000 square metres, the building will occupy an area of 16,300 square metres. This space will house a surgical block, a multi-purpose hospitalisation area, consulting rooms and radiology. It will have four operating theatres, a rehabilitation room, emergency department, radiology service and clinical support area. Patients will have 53 rooms. The centre will also have 27 outpatient consultations and 15 examination rooms. There will be a heliport for urgent patient transfers.

At the official groundbreaking ceremony, the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, highlighted the importance of the new hospital.

Ascires Grupo Biomédico has awarded Grupo Puentes the construction of a 30,307m2 hospital, of which 19,181m2 are distributed over 7 floors above ground and 11,126m2 over three floors below ground. The construction period is 24 months, starting on 1 December 2022. In terms of technology and number of patients treated annually, Ascires is the pioneering biomedical group in Spain in Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, as well as a leader in Radiation Oncology. This new hospital in Valencia is a constructive challenge given the extraordinary complexity of its facilities which include: The hospital is highly complex and is equipped with 70 individual rooms with the following clinical services: 7 conventional operating theatres +1 hybrid operating theatre with MRI, 3 linear accelerators, 2 MRI magnetic resonance imaging, 2 CT scanners, 1 conventional X-ray, 2 PET, 2 haemodynamic rooms, 12 post-anaesthesia recovery stations, 10 ICU BOX +1 isolated BOX A new challenge in the construction of hospitals, both in terms of complexity and execution time, for Grupo Puentes

The railway infrastructure administrator Adif has awarded the construction of the first section of the new southern railway access to the port of Castellón in a joint venture with Copasa and Torrescámara.
This work is part of the 8.3 km long railway infrastructure project that will connect the Mediterranean Corridor with the Port of Castellón.

The Xunta de Galicia awarded to the joint venture: S.A. de Obras y Servicios, Copasa, Puentes y Calzadas Infraestructuras S.L.U, for about 48.3 million euros, the works for the extension of the 51,000m2 Ourense University Hospital Complex.

The works consist of the construction of a new hospital building in the Ourense University Hospital Complex, the refurbishment of the current Maternity Hospital, and the improvement of accesses, with a completion period of 40 months. This project is co-financed by European ERDF funds.

With this expansion, the hospital complex will have 7 floors and rooms with 932 beds, which also includes an experimental hospitalisation area and a virtual hospitalisation unit. This consists of the installation on floors six and seven of this building of two experimental hospitalisation units, where the results of innovative processes and new technologies applied to healthcare will be continuously evaluated. There will also be 21 individual “smart” rooms where new home automation techniques and remote monitoring will be applied.

Grupo Puentes has reached a new milestone in public infrastructure in Central America by starting the construction of the longest bridge in El Salvador, called General Manuel José Arce. The importance of this event was highlighted by the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, who on 25 November laid the first stone, making the start of the works official.

The General Manuel José Arce Bridge will be located at the end of Route CA02W over the Paz River, on the La Hachadura-Pedro de Alvarado border between El Salvador and Guatemala, in the department of Ahuachapán. It will be of great significance in facilitating commercial traffic between the two countries, and will benefit some 400,000 people. 

Grupo Puentes is undertaking the project in a joint venture with DISA S.A. The La Hachadura bridge will be 256 metres long, with a span of 160 metres, the longest in El Salvador. It will span the Paz River, with a width of 20.3 metres, enough to accommodate four lanes, two in each direction.

The President of the Republic of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, travelled to the border point of La Hachadura on 25 November to lay the first stone. At the ceremony he said that “this new bridge, the longest in Salvadoran territory, totally modern, will not only facilitate rapid transit, but will also increase security”. The Salvadoran president added that “this will generate thousands of jobs in economic development and will also be a fundamental pillar for development”