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while the ignorant masses continuous imagining the Spanish as contemplative life, parties and siestas, sun and beach, the reality is quite different. Spain leads by far the construction and maintenance of infrastructures in the world. Six of the 10 top transportation concession companies are based in Spain, constructing and/or managing About 40 percent of all major transportation Concessions in the world. literally one can say that Spain is building the modern world.
Here are some examples of this decade
Panama Canal expansion project
Company: Sacyr, budget: €5.450 (in millons)
High speed Mecca-Medina, Saudi Arabia
Adif, Talgo, Renfe, etc. €6,700
Light rail in Ottawa, Canada
Dragados, €1,600
Riyadh underground rail system, Saudi Arabia
FCC (35,8%), €6,000
world's largest hotel and leisure resort in Wynn Cotai, Macau China
ACS, €2.140
East Anglia One Offshore wind farm, UK
Iberdrola (50%), €5,000
Lima underground railway, Peru
ACS, FCC, €3,900
largest cable-stayed bridge in the United Sates, Texas
ACS, $983.4
407 ETR, Canada, world's first all-electronic, open-access toll highway.
Ferrovial, €3500
Heathrow Airport Terminal 2, UK (safety record with 3 million hours worked without a RIDDOR)
Ferrovial/Agroman, €1,050 M
Super sewer central section, London
Ferrovial, €1,050 M
longest railway tunnel in Scandinavia, Project Follo Line, Norway
Acciona, €1,000 M
largest desalinitation plant the world, Ashdod, Israel
Sadyt, €300 M
High Speed Fresno-Bakersfield section, California
ACS, €1.083 M
Light rail in Sydney, Australia
Acciona, 1.400 M
Site C Clean Energy Project, Canada's largest infrastructure project
Acciona (preferred proponent), €5,875 M
Bosphorus sub-sea tunnel, Turkey, World’s first three-level tunnel and Deepest Undersea
OHL (70%), €1,040 M
The Queensferry Crossing, Edinburgh, Scotland, bridge tallest in the UK
Dragados/Hochtief, €1100 M
Beckton desalination plant, first large-scale desalination plant in UK and Global Water Intelligence award for the Most Sustainable Project
Acciona Agua, €320 M
Wikinger offshore, the world's largest wind farm in deep waters, Germany
Iberdrola, €1,500 M
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