News €1.2bn biofuels plant set for Andalusia Spanish energy company Cepsa and Malaysian vegetable oil maker Apical have begun work on a €1.2bn biofuels plant in Andalusia. When complete in 2026 the plant will be able to…
News Cladding under suspicion as four die in Valencia tower blaze At least four people were killed and between nine and 15 are missing after fire engulfed a high-rise apartment complex in the southern Spanish city of Valencia. A further 15 were…
News Expansion plan for Spain’s oldest football stadium unveiled for 2030 World Cup bid El Molinón stadium in Asturias, the oldest professional football ground in Spain, is to be expanded by 9,000 seats as part of its application to become one of the hosts…
News Chinese, Spanish companies to build $3.3bn Saudi gas refinery Energy company Saudi Aramco has chosen Spanish engineer Tecnicas Reunidas and China’s Sinopec to build a $3.3bn gas refinery in Saudi Arabia. Tecnicas Reunidas will own 65% of the project,…
Projects Checking in with Limak on Barcelona’s new Camp Nou In its ongoing project to renovate FC Barcelona’s home stadium, Spotify Camp Nou, Turkish contractor Limak told GCR that it had now removed the old stadium’s third and top seating…
Projects Ferrovial completes strategic floating solar plant in Madrid Ferrovial has installed a 1.7MW floating solar array on the lower reservoir of the century-old Torrelaguna mini hydroelectric plant near Madrid for the city’s water company, Canal de Isabel II…
News Two more towers of Antoni Gaudí’s long-awaited Sagrada Familia are complete Some 141 years since construction began on Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, two more of its 18 towers have been completed. The towers are named after the evangelists…
News Hill lands Spanish data centre contract Paris-headquartered data-centre operator Data4 has hired Hill International to project manage a new campus at San Agustín de Guadalix, a town some 45km north of Madrid. The campus called MAD2…
News Spanish contractor wins share of $3.6bn Abu Dhabi gas project Abu Dhabi’s national energy company Adnoc has awarded a $3.6bn project to expand its gas processing infrastructure to a joint venture between Spain’s Técnicas Reunidas and the UAE’s state-owned National…
News Dallas Museum of Art announces winner for extension A team led by Spanish designer Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has won a competition to modernise and extend the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), beating a shortlist that included David Chipperfield…
News Ferrovial lands role on €300m underground rail project in Barcelona A consortium of Ferrovial, Sacyr, Copisa, and Copcisa has won a €300m contract to extend the Llobregat-Anoia line of Barcelona’s FGC commuter rail system. They are tasked with building a…
News Barcelona named Unesco’s 2026 world capital of architecture Barcelona has been named as the world capital of architecture for 2026 by heritage organisation Unesco and the Union of International Associations (UIA). The triennial award went to Copenhagen in…
News Spain’s new royal museum needed special tool for awkward granite cladding A museum is about to open in Madrid housing 160,000 precious items owned by the Spanish royal family. It will exhibit around 650 of them, including paintings by Goya, Velázquez,…
News Hitachi, Vinci to build French-Spanish grid link across Bay of Biscay Hitachi Energy and Vinci have won contract to connect the French and Spanish electricity grids with two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) links across the Bay of Biscay. Combined, the links…
News Brazilian company begins work on Spain’s first “cultivated meat” plant Brazilian meatpacking company JBS said yesterday that it had begun work on Spain’s first production plant for artificial meat, the Reuters news agency reports. The plant, which is being developed…
News Foster + Partners designs extension to Rioja winery Foster + Partners has designed an extension and refurbishment of the Bodegas Faustino vineyard in Rioja, adding a visitors’ centre, a photovoltaic roof and a vinification cellar. The project, which…
Companies ‘We do not renounce Spain’, says Ferrovial chair as shareholders vote to move Ferrovial’s shareholders yesterday voted 93.3% in favour of the board’s plan to conduct a “cross-border reverse merger” that will see its registered office move from Spain to the Netherlands. In…
News Acciona and Azvi to build €130m high-speed rail link in southern Spain A 60/40 joint venture between Spanish contractors Acciona and Azvi has landed a €130m contract to build an 18km high-speed rail link as part of the Murcia-to-Cartagena railway in Spain.…