After a 35-year campaign, Barcelona’s most famous architect, Antoni Gaudí, designer of the still-unfinished La Sagrada Família, has officially been made a candidate for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.…

Spanish entrepreneur Javier Romero has signed an agreement with a Chinese tech company to develop Europe’s biggest computing centre in Malaga, southern Spain, news agency Xinhua reports.  The deal was…

Three Spanish contractors are on the starting grid for a contract to build an F1 circuit in Madrid, according to business new site Economia Digital. Contractors Dragados, Obrascón Huarte Lain…

A team comprising Spanish contractors Ferrovial, Gyocivil and Licuas has won a €98m deal to renovate a 70,000 sq m section of the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid. The…

Spanish developer Neinor Homes will invest €35m building four apartment blocks in the town of Mungia, a former industrial area in Spain’s Basque Country. The company hopes its 137 apartments…

Energy companies BP and Iberdrola have begun work on Spain’s largest green hydrogen plant in Valencia. The €70m plant will be sited on a 20,000-sq-m plot next to BP’s Castellón…

French rail engineer Alstom has signed a contract with Metro de Madrid to create the city’s first driverless route. Line 6, the one chosen, runs for 24km and accommodates 400,000…

Spain’s second-largest oil company will start work on part of the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley scheme, which will install enough electrolysers to turn 2GW of wind and solar energy into…

German tunnel specialist Herrenknecht will study the feasibility of building a high-speed rail tunnel between Morocco and Spain, Arabian Gulf Business Insight (AGBI) reports. Spain and Morocco have been considering…

Swiss energy company Edisun has announced plans to build a 941MW solar park northwest of Madrid to provide power for AI datacentres. The Fuencarral project is intended to meet the…

Marta Serrano, Spain’s secretary general for land transportation, has blamed children’s television programmes such as Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig for the lack of women taking up construction jobs, because…

Spanish utility Iberdrola is planning the largest pumped storage plant in Europe. The Conso II project, earmarked for Ourense, Galicia, will cost more than €1.5bn, website Enerdata reports. The plant…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will lend Spanish utility Naturgy €1bn to increase renewable power generation by 2.3GW, enough to power over a million homes. Naturgy will use the money…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced an initial €900m recovery and reconstruction package for Spain following floods in the provinces of Cuenca and Valencia that led to more than…

India has signed memorandums of understanding with the governments of Spain and Switzerland aimed at increasing the number of foreign companies working on its rail modernisation projects. Indian Railways signed…

Spain’s transportation ministry has declared a state of emergency and allocated €24.8m for emergency road repairs as the death toll from unprecedented downpours this week in the provinces of Valencia…

A massive fight broke out on Friday between construction workers on the site of Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium, the Catalan News website reports. The brawl involved around 20 employees who…

Chinese renewables company Envision Energy has announced plans to invest $1bn in a green hydrogen industrial park in Spain. The investment will be made “together with other business partners”, according…