ACCIONA Magazine 77: Railways, changing destinations

The largest
ever construction
plan for renewable
facilities
CLEAN ENERGY
Human/Robot:
the alliance that is
transforming employment
INNOVATION
RAILWAYS
RAILWAYS
CHANGING DESTINATIONS
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DESTINATION:
SUSTAINABLE PROGRESS
EDITORIAL
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The European
Union believes railways
are strategic for
sustainable transport
T
he first meaning of “progress” in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Acade-
my is “the action of moving forward”. This seems especially appropriate for a
mode of transport like railways, because no other has been so closely identified
with progress in terms of economic, social and human development.
Long before the first paved road,
every meter of track brought us
closer to the industrial revolution,
leaving the old system behind. The
tracks not only opened the way to
new ideas, but also to infrastruc-
ture that required unprecedented
organization and effort from the
public and private sectors.
Since then, railway systems have
been contributing to development,
but in return they require adequate
layouts, gradients and curve radii, as
well as tunnels, viaducts, and pow-
er generation and distribution net-
works — not to mention companies
capable of engineering all this.
Railways are once again synony-
mous with “forward motion”. The
European Union believes they are
strategic for sustainable transport;
they account for barely 0.5% of
the sector’s emissions. The aim is
to double and triple the transit of
goods and passengers, to reinforce
high-speed rail as an alternative to
air travel, and to bolster urban are-
as, countries and the continent.
Goals matter, but how you achieve
them matters even more. Railways
are a symbol of a totally green
economy that transcends trans-
portation. They show that diffuse
collective effort is not enough. As
the UN often indicates, one key
factor must be targeted to achieve
the Sustainable Development
Goals: infrastructure.
This applies not only to railway, but
also to water, educational, digital
and, of course, energy infrastruc-
ture, if we want to decarbonize our
lives. Energy is required by another
rapidly growing development: the
global demand for clean electricity
and an ever-growing awareness of
the environment.
How is ACCIONA responding to this
large-scale need? With the largest
ever construction goal for renewa-
ble energy facilities in its history.
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SUMMARY
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RENEWABLES
An unprecedented leap in scale and
a single goal: to double renewable
energy capacity in just five years.
A GLOBAL
CONSTRUCTION
PLAN
EDITORIAL
Railway
infrastructures
for the green
economy.
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IN NUMBERS
SUSTAINABLE
ASSESSMENT
The Sustainability
Master Plan 2020 met all of its
objectives.
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NEWS
THE LATEST
AT ACCIONA
Economic results,
railway projects, offshore wind,
cultural engineering and a 100%
electric rally car.
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HISTORY
TIMELESS
ENGINEERING
From a millenary
past to an industrial future.
The construction of Cartagena’s
second port.
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INTERVIEW
Global demand for
clean energy is
soaring. Investors
all agree on the
profitability of the
sector and the
social support is
overwhelming.
ACCIONA has
responded by
creating the largest
construction plan
for renewable
energy facilities in
its history. Joaquín
Ancín is leading the
team responsible
for making it
happen.
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“ THE ENERGY THE WORLD
NEEDS CAN ONLY COME
FROM RENEWABLES”
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Cover: Sean Mackaoui.
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magazine is chlorine-
free and comes from
sustainable forests. The
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by the Forest Stewardship
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forests are managed
responsibly and that
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verifiable chain of custody
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Nº 77 April 2021
INNOVATION
Robots that have come
to work with humans, not
replace them. They unleash
their talent to innovate and
create wealth.
THE PERSON/
MACHINE
ALLIANCE
THE NEW
GOLDEN AGE
OF RAILWAYS
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Progress came in on railways,
forever changing our world —
and they will do it again. A new
generation of infrastructures
is driving us towards
sustainable transport.
TRANSPORT
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SCIENCE
HEALING
THE WATER
PLANET
Without a
healthy sea there cannot be
health on Earth. The Decade of
Ocean Science has begun.
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HOW IT WORKS
DATA,
BUILDING
MATERIALS
The BIM digital twin
knows everything about the physical
work site. It monetizes information,
industrializes the sector.
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COMIC
SUPERHANDS
TO THE
RESCUE
Traffic jams, unpleasant fumes,
bad moods... A superheroine
decides to lend a (railway) hand.
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WHO IS
BEHIND
CIRCULAR
ECONOMY
The team that
generates ideas for good business.
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IN NUMBERS
The degree of compliance was
100%
for Society, Climate Change,
Environment, Good Governance,
Value Chain and Innovation.
Average compliance
with all objectives:
98.8%
Now what?
The new 2025 Sustainability
Master Plan will focus on evolving
from carbon neutrality to positive
contribution, and from resilient to
regenerative infrastructure. It also
places people and the planet at
the heart of its strategy.
Under the 2025 SMP, ACCIONA
aims to increase investment
and double its impact.
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MISSIONS
ACCOMPLISHED
The results of the 2016-2020 Sustainability
Master Plan (SMP) leave no doubt: maximum
fulﬁllment of all social, environmental and good
governance commitments.
The results were recently presented in the 2020
Sustainability Report, with which the previous SMP winds
to a close and the new plan covering the period up to 2025
for the entire ACCIONA Groupbegins.
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IN NUMBERS
Achievements in 2016-2020:
SOCIETY
Social impact management
in 127 projects in 30
countries, and 59 million
euros’ worth of social
contributions.
PEOPLE
34% reduction in the
rate of work-related
accidents; and
Global Diversity and
Inclusion Plan.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Reduction of emissions by
38%, in line with ACCIONA’s
science-based target
(scopes 1 and 2), and by
33% (scope 3)*;
and prevention of 70 million
tons of CO2
emissions
through 100% renewable
power generation.
GOOD GOVERNANCE
Assessment of ESG
(Environmental, Social and
Good Governance), criminal and
tax risks; and non-financial,
transparent, digitalized
biannual reporting.
VALUE
CHAIN
Risk map for 45,641
suppliers and ESG
assessment of partners
and customers.
ENVIRONMENT
75% less waste sent to
landfills since 2015 and
77% recovery of waste; and
treatment of 1,488 cubic
hectometers of water in
water-stressed areas.
INNOVATION
1.096 billion euros on
cumulative innovation
and 113.6 million euros
saved by process
improvements.
Scopes 1 and 2: direct emissions from activities
controlled by the company and indirect emissions
from generating the energy it consumes.
Scope 3: indirect emissions that aren’t owned
or controlled by the company.
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Imagineafast-motionsequenceshowingCartagena’s
history:Neanderthalraids,Cro-Magnoncompetition,
Neolithicimmigration,Argaricculture,Iberiancivilization,
Greeksettlement,Carthaginianstronghold,Roman
garumproducer,Byzantine,VisigothandIslamicdomi-
nation,reconquest,cantonalmania,thegeniusofaman
namedPeral...andtheever-presentstrategicmilitary
andtradeadvantagesofthebay.
Let’shitpauseononeoftheframes. It’s1940,and
engineersarebuildingandrebuildingascarredcountry.
EntrecanalesyTávoraisconstructingtheEscombreras
Dike,Cartagena’ssecondbiggestport,usingfloating
caissonsthatareopenatthetop.Thebaseisreinforced
withpiles,andthegridshaperevealsthelargegapsthat
lightenandsupportthestructure.
Despitethecrudenatureofthismaterial,itisaveritable
philosopher’sstoneforaportengineer.Incontactwith
water,insteadofdilutingorweakeningitsets,hardening
towithstandtheragingseawaterevenbetterthanrock.
Theprojectwasdesignedforthefuture;itreadiedthe
innerharborforEscombreras’industrialtake-off,withits
refineryandpowerplant.Italsolookedtwomillenniainto
thepast,drawingontheRomanproto-concretemade
withpozzolans:moreenduringthantheEternalCity.
INNOVATION, TRADITION AND CONCRETE IN CARTAGENA’S SECOND BIGGEST PORT.
by Patricia Alcorta
ENDURING ENGINEERING
HISTORY
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NEWS
A new team is born: ACCIONA |
Sainz XE Team. It is made up of
three partners: ACCIONA, Carlos
Sainz (multiple champion of the
World Rally Championship and
Dakar Rally) and QEV Technologies
(specialized electric mobility
engineering). And it has two drivers,
Sainz himself and Laia Sanz,
multiple champion of the Trial and
Enduro World Championships.
Its goal is not just to participate,
but to win with its 100% electric,
first edition Extreme E racecar,
the unprecedented sustainable
off-road all-terrain world
champion. It will be held between
April and December and brings
together, for the first time in the
motor world, the concepts of the
climate fight, sustainable mobility
and gender equality.
TEAM OF CHAMPIONS IN THE FIRST EXTREME E RALLY
The first award, on consortium with Grupo México, will build the
Playa del Carmen-Tulum leg of the Mayan Train (Quintana Roo),
with 60.3 kilometers of electrified double rail tracks, a seven-
kilometer viaduct and wildlife corridors. The project is valued at
€713 million, will create more than 3,000 jobs (direct and indirect)
and will include infrastructure maintenance and conservation for
51 months. In addition to offering new transportation services
to the local communities and more than three million tourists
annually, it will help to reduce highway transportation emissions
and preserve the zone’s natural protected areas.
The company has also obtained the contract to expand the
Hurstbridge rail line in Melbourne (Australia), which is included
in a large project valued at €343 million. The goal of the Victoria
government is to promote mobility and safety, eliminating 75
at-grade crossings, expanding rail services, reducing traffic jams
and improving public transportation connections. ACCIONA will
build two new stations, duplicate 3 kilometers of rail between
them, install 1.5 kilometers of a new route and improve signage
over the entire line.
Rail infrastructure reporting on pages 22 to 31.
TWO STRATEGIC PROJECTS FOR THEIR SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT
AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRIC MOBILITY
NEW RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE
FOR AUSTRALIA AND
THE MEXICAN MAYAN TRAIN
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NEWS
CERTIFIED SUSTAINABILITY
IN ALL ACCIONA CULTURAL
ENGINEERING EVENTS
ACCIONA Cultural Engineering (the new business name of the old ACCIONA
Productions and Design) has obtained the ISO 20121 certificate from the
Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS, a global standard in the sector), which
certifies the sustainable management of all its events in the complete life
cycle, its commitment to reducing the environmental footprint and the goal
of contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.
The company is the first in the sector in Spain to obtain this certificate.
2020 ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
€380 MILLION (+8.1%)
IN PROFITS
Despite the pandemic, ACCIONA has been able to protect its financial
position and consolidate growth in all its activities, reflected in a net
earnings increase of 8.1%.
Some of the notable trends favoring that strategy include the
green transition (which generates record demand for sustainable
infrastructures and clean energy), green recovery funds mobilized by
different countries and the growing interest in international investment
by companies that, like ACCIONA, meet strict environmental, social and
corporate governance (ESG) standards.
In 2020, total revenues reached €6.47 billion (-10% due to the impact
of Covid), the EBITDA was placed at €1.12 billion (-21.8% for the same
reason) and net investment at €829 million. Furthermore, financial
discipline translated to a net debt reduction of 13.8%.
6.47
BILLION
IN TOTAL REVENUES (-10%)
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
WILL HAVE MORE OFFSHORE
WIND ENERGY
ACCIONA and the Scottish firm SSE
Renewables have signed an exclusivity
agreement to develop offshore wind
power projects in both countries, in
addition to exploring joint opportunities in
other markets.
Thecompaniesexpecttoforma50-50
jointventure,inwhichACCIONAwill
contributeitsexperienceasadeveloper
andoperatorof renewablefacilities,
networkintegrationtechnologyand
centralizedenergymanagementandit’s
appliedengineeringknowledgetooffshore
windturbines.AndSSERenewableswill
additscapacityandexperienceinthe
development,construction,andintegrated
managementofsomeoftheworld’s
leadingoffshorewindfarms.Todayithas
487MWoperativeandaprojectportfolio
of6GWindevelopment.
€
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THE GROWTH
T
he energy business is currently deploying some
10,700 MW of installed capacity worldwide,
and by the end of 2025 it expects to have
around 20,000 MW.
To facilitate this investment effort, ACCIONA
announced in February the decision made
by the Board of Directors to launch an initial
public offering in Spain of the shares in its
Energy division.
Such a leap in scale — in investment, planning,
operational capacity and competitive capability
— must be backed by a good cause.
Actually, there are several: the natural
commitment to sustainability and renewable
energy; the world’s increased demand for
clean energy in order to harmonize sustainable
growth with economic and demographic
growth; the international consensus (especially
in Europe) that the post-Covid economic
recovery represents a golden opportunity to
accelerate decarbonization and combat climate
change; and that this is not only feasible but
also particularly profitable. Europe has already
earmarked a large part of its Next Generation
recovery funds for green investment.
This is how ACCIONA expects to optimize
deployment in four strategic markets.
THE COMPANY’S LARGEST EVER
CONSTRUCTION PLAN FOR
RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITIES
HAS ONE GOAL: TO DOUBLE ITS
CAPACITY IN JUST FIVE YEARS.
HERE’S THE WHERE, WHEN AND WHY.
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RENEWABLES
O F E N E R G Y
SPAIN
INVESTING IN THE PARENT COMPANY
This country is special for many
reasons: its abundance of wind
and solar resources, its firm
commitment to decarbonize
its energy matrix, its status
as a platform for other Latin
American markets, and a long-
standing relationship based on
mutual trust.
ACCIONA has three wind
farms with a total capacity
of 312 MW, most of which
are located in La Araucanía. It
also has three photovoltaic
power plants (372 MWp) in the
Atacama Desert — one of the
areas with the highest solar
radiation on the planet — and a
fourth plant with 238 MWp is
about to be completed.
Chile generates 6% of
ACCIONA’s total renewable
energy production, a figure
that is set to increase
significantly thanks to facilities
that have recently been
built, others that are under
development, and those
planned for the coming years.
CHILE
ARAUCANIAN WIND,
ATACAMA SUN
by Patricia Alcorta
Illustration Rodríguez y Cano
The domestic market has shown
that regulatory uncertainty can
paralyze investment. Having
overcome this phase, and with
public plans for renewable energy
growth, energy transition and
decarbonization, Spain is once
again a key market for the
company. This is evidenced by
the planned construction of some
2,000 MW between now and
2025, which will be added to the
5,677 MW already in operation.
In 2020 ACCIONA pioneered the
installation of the first grid-
connected floating photovoltaic
plant in Spain, located on the
Sierra Brava reservoir (Caceres).
It is building the ‘Celada
Fusión’ wind farm (48 MW) in
Palencia and it will soon start
work on photovoltaic plants in
Almendralejo (125 MWp available
in 2022) and in Jarafuel and
Ayora (85.7 MWp operational in
2023), which will be used in part
to supply the pharmaceutical
company Novartis. In last
December’s public auction, it
obtained 128 MWp of photovoltaic
capacity that will be operational
in 2023.
In addition, it will make its debut in
offshore wind in Spain and Portugal
through a joint venture with SSE
Renewables, one of the leading
groups in the UK and Ireland in
the development, construction,
operation and management of this
type of facility.
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RENEWABLES
The new U.S. administration is
aiming for climate neutrality by
2050 and carbon-free electricity
by 2035. This is conducive to the
company’s strategy, which was
already ahead of schedule in 2019
when it acquired photovoltaic
projects from Tenaska (3,000
MW of nominal power and 1,000
MW of storage) in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas,
Oklahoma and Missouri as part of
its growth plan.
Another step forward is the
company’s long-term power
purchase agreement (PPA) with
Amazon. ACCIONA will be providing
them with 641 MW of renewable
energy, which will support its
construction of four photovoltaic
plants (889 MWp) in Illinois,
Kentucky and Ohio.
Thegoalistobuildatleast1,500MWof
photovoltaiccapacityby2023andto
maketheU.S.asmuchasolarmarket
asawindmarket.Thecompanynow
has1,064MWintenwindfarms
throughoutsixstates,anditowns
andoperatesa64-MWconcentrating
solarpowerplantnearLasVegas.
The U.S. is ACCIONA’s third largest
market, accounting for 10% of its
renewable energy production in 2020.
USA
THE SUN RISES IN THE WEST
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RENEWABLES
ACCIONA operates four wind farms (434
MW) and this year it plans to connect a ﬁfth
(157.5 MW). It will also begin construction
on the largest one in its history: the colossal
MacIntyre wind farm, with a total capacity of
1,026 MW and 180 Nordex Delta4000 wind
turbines, the most powerful (5.7 MW) and
advanced in its entire wind power portfolio.
The goal is to open MacIntyre in 2024, with
an investment of over 1 billion euros. The
Queensland state-owned power company,
CleanCo, will own 100 MW at the complex
and will purchase an annual output of 400
MW from ACCIONA for ten years through a
PPA contract.
AUSTRALIA
WINDMILLS AS
BIG AS GIANTS
THE RISE OF
GREEN HYDROGEN
The company wants to play
a leading role in developing
other emerging energy
sources like green hydro-
gen, which has a promising
future according to pro-
spective analyses.
Together with partners
such as Enagás, Redexis
and Cemex, ACCIONA is
leading the ‘Power to Green
Hydrogen Mallorca’ project
to create a production and
consumption ecosystem on
the island. It has also sealed
an alliance with Plug Power
Inc. (a world leader in hydro-
gen fuel cells and refueling
solutions) to supply green
hydrogen to customers in
Spain and Portugal.
With an initial planned
investment of 2 billion
euros, the company aims to
capture 20% of the Iberian
market by 2030.
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INTERVIEW
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by Juan Pablo Zurdo photos Jacobo Medrano
Joaquín Ancín Viguiristi
Director of Engineering and Construction in Energy
“
THE ENERGY
THE WORLD
NEEDS CAN
ONLY COME
FROM
RENEWABLES
”
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Joaquín Ancín
incorporated
ACCIONA in 2000
and has been the
director of R+D,
biofuels manager
and responsible
for biomass and
thermoelectric.
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knowledge and experience, such as biomass,
thermoelectric and hydrogen.
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INTERVIEW
Howdoyoufeelpersonallyaboutsuchachallenge?
Responsibility and confidence, we are prepared.
I direct a strong, capable team, and for that I am
grateful. The company and the shareholders put
some €8 billion in investments in our hands, we
cannot fail. It takes a lot to earn credibility, and it
is incredibly easy to lose it, which is why we con-
tinue working extremely hard on planning and
execution, with humility and transparency. If I
make a mistake, I’m the first one to put it on the
table, ask for forgiveness and analyze it to learn
from it. We also look forward to it because we are
convinced that our work improves society. And
because we are aware of how lucky we are to con-
tribute when we have friends, family and compa-
triots who are going through an awfully hard time
with the pandemic.
Is planning what keeps you from failing?
They asked Miguel Induráin how hard it must be
to win a Tour. He answered no, what was hard
was training alone, in January. I remember being
at a roadside inn and in those two hours seeing
him go up and down a pass several times at 10
below zero. Planning is our training, it is crucial,
we use a proprietary tool, ACCIONA Project Man-
agement, and we spent many hours defining the
details of the design, organization and execution.
How to be agile and flexible because making 50
MW a year is not the same as 2,500, the engineer-
Interests you don’t
understand yourself
without…
Sharing life with my
wife, without her I don’t
understand myself.
Sitting around the table
with my lady and a good
group of friends to fix the
world, after a good sweat
playing tennis. For me
that’s a perfect Sunday.
The value most needed
in this world…
More and more we are
losing people who unite
us, instead of dividing
and separating us. I don’t
know how to achieve it,
but I try, and I ask of my
team: to build bridges with
colleagues, with clients,
with the environment,
you have to build bridges
with the whole world.
A book, a song, a movie …
El Quijote or La casa
verde. Plany al mar and
Pare, by Serrat, which are
two songs to the Earth,
to the planet. Or any of
the classics by Silvio
Rodríguez: Ojalá, Te doy
una canción... Movie:
Amanece que no es poco,
I watch it once a year and
I will continue to watch it.
A person you admire
from history …
Nelson Mandela.
Precisely because he
unites. I thought it was
terrible to see so many
politicians at his funeral
to take a photo, but not
to follow his example.
He had reason to hate,
but he was brave, he
reached out.
Another profession
you would have liked to
practice …
ThatIwillleavefor
my nextreincarnation
becauseI’mverywell
servedwiththeoneIhave.
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ing of management and processing, cost and term
calculations, if we decide it costs 100 then it costs
100, or less, the procurement policy, selecting
suppliers and closing contracts, how to multi-
ply generation by four without multiplying the
equipment by four, the lodging and a camp hos-
pital for 1,000 colleagues in the Atacama Desert …
And foreseeing the response to contingencies that
will surely occur. We can’t plan 100%, we’re not
robots, but we can at 90 or 95%. Planning doesn’t
guarantee we won’t have problems, but not plan-
ning guarantees your failure.
How do you optimize terms, costs and perfor-
mance long term?
That’s the million-dollar question, because we
assume some extremely high demands for com-
petitiveness. We don’t build facilities to sell them,
but rather to use ours for the 10, 20, 30 years it
takes to return the investment. We achieve this
with tools like Best Value, which obsessively
analyzes all activities to see how and where to
improve 0.5%, 1% from the construction of a road
to a perimeter fence. We use imagination, testing,
we go overboard if necessary, we listen to all sug-
gestions from inside and outside the company,
and in the end we achieve those improvements
that seem small but are constant. The one thing
we do not skimp on is that which can compro-
mise generation, that is sacred. We also apply the
LCOE [Levelized Cost Of Electricity] model, the
weighted cost of electricity in the next 20 years to
adjust the investment and produce the lowest cost
energy possible throughout that time.
What role does the human factor play?
In the end, the projects depend on people, and
I’m glad for that. You have optimal planning, a
fine organization, but without a good team it’s
not worth anything. It is fundamental to know
who you’re placing as director of a project, con-
struction manager, supervisor, having trust-
ed, experienced, very motivated professionals
with common sense and a practical spirit, who
know when to yield and when to squeeze the
contracts, who have the flexibility to adapt to
SAFE AND SOUND
Year after year, Engineering and Con-
struction reduces accident rates. With one
exception, the upturn after the interruption
of the 2020 pandemic. Alarms sounded
and the phenomenon was analyzed in
depth until the cause was found: the col-
lateral effects of Covid. The teams were
isolated by the quarantines and couldn’t
rotate as was planned, messages centered
on anti-infection measures, concern for
what was happening… That loss of focus
created the upturn. But, understanding the
problem, the solution worked.
“Our safety policy,” explains Joaquín
Ancín, “is an absolute priority and does
not depend on any other factor, whether
savings or competitiveness. It is non-ne-
gotiable.” It is based on programs like Stop
Working: “When there is any concern, the
operator halts the activity, even if it’s a
200MW job.” Or Build Safe, “Where all
members of the team worldwide, as well as
contractors, contribute their ideas, experi-
ences and knowledge of best practices.”
“ W E W I L L
AC H I E V E I T,
W H E N YO U J O I N
A H E A LT H Y T E A M ,
YO U C ATC H T H E I R
S P I R I T. A G O O D
T E A M M A K E S
YO U B E T T E R ”
such different cultures as a remote part of India,
or a super-developed part of the U.S. We have
this magnificent human base; you just have to
strengthen it. We achieve this, when you join a
healthy team, you catch its spirit. A good team
makes you better.
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THE
NEW
GOLDEN ERA
IT CHANGED EUROPE, IT CONNECTED
THE WORLD, IT DROVE THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION AND FAITH IN PROGRESS.
IT CONNECTED TERRITORIES, BUSINESSES,
IDEAS. DISTANCES BECAME SHORTER.
INFRASTRUCTURES, VITAL.
THIS, THE EUROPEAN YEAR OF THE
RAILROAD, INAUGURATES A NEW ERA:
THAT OF SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION ON
A CARBON NEUTRAL CONTINENT. WE START
BY TELLING ITS STORY IN THE FIRST THREE
REPORTS THE MAGAZINE WILL PUBLISH.
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DESTINATION, EUROPE
The railroad map reflects the history of Europe,
the contagious technological fever and rivalries
between nations. The first French train runs in
1828, the German in 1835. Germany rises as an
industrial powerhouse, and in 1849 adds 2,467
kilometers of rail lines, and in 1879 tests the first
electric train in Berlin, thus entering the future of
electrification beyond the dominant carbon.
The progress is venerated, industrialization
unleashed. And the railroad develops its own
psychology, an entire sector of unprecedented
offices and engineering prestige. Whether or not
they have a station suddenly appear determines
the futures of entire regions.
“Until 1900 the railroad was the engine of the
European economy. Its construction mobi-
lized financial and human resources, displaced
them throughout the territory and created new
standards of localization and competitiveness,”
Carreras points out.
“That fundamental contribution to the continent’s
progress didn’t stop, it triggered milestone after
milestone, like the arrival of interoperability, the
design of ballastless track or the implementation
of High Speed [HS],” explains Maximiliano Are-
nas García, Technical and Construction Director
TRANSPORT
But it wasn’t always that way. Before the first
railroad experiments, some skeptics predicted
that the rapid succession of images through the
window would cause blindness.
We climb on the rails of memory. The first Euro-
pean trains appear in the 19th Century, and
nearly change everything: communication,
industry, territorial borders, the interpretation
of the present and vision of the future.
“The greatest current investments, the largest
telecommunications networks, public policy
options, localization decisions, intra-European
cooperation, the competition between corporate
giants, coherence of the technical systems, in the
end, everything that is crucial today in Europe
happened before with the construction of the
continental railroad network,” points out Albert
Carreras, professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
With a global spillover, other regions of the planet
are also making it their own.
FIRST STATION
Great Britain innovates in the 18th Century with
the first steam locomotive to replace horse-
drawn carriages in the mines. The British example
spreads. Technological improvements occur in
traction, in engineering with the domain of iron
and steel, in ever more precise and complex pro-
jects like the first long-distance tunnels, almost
a desecration of nature for those nostalgic for the
pre-industrial world.
The railroad elevates the curve of material and
human development to an unprecedented scale.
Then, like today, is demonstrates that fluid com-
munication of products, services and ideas is
an indispensable factor in leaps in technology.
Some primitive viaducts, tunnels, lines through
mountain passes, stations or dry ports were built
long before the first automobile drove on an
unpaved road. Progress and the railroad (with an
extended family of metros and tramways) were
identical terms.
RAILROAD AND
PROGRESS (WITH ITS
FAMILY OF METROS AND
TRAMWAYS)
THESE TERMS WERE
IDENTICAL
Trains and
metros barely
account for 0.5%
of emissions
from the
transportation
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of the Specialized Railroad and Tunnels Unit, of
the ACCIONA Construction division.
In the ﬁrst two decades of the 20th Century, the
network of iron roads interconnected. The Great
War destroyed them, yes, which proves the stra-
tegic value of these infrastructures. But in 1921,
more than 12,000 kilometers were built. Through
1937, 32,000 kilometers of rail were laid.
Meanwhile in the U.S., gasoil locomotives erupt,
more and more European governments try to
control the railroad systems due to their impor-
tance as a public asset. By 1950, the States con-
trolled nearly half of the network, and that per-
centage has varied little. In fact, after the disso-
lution of the Soviet Union, Russia and Czecho-
slovakia founded nearly twenty public ﬁrms that
continue to manage the railroad.
Its importance does not cease. In fact, it accelerates
withHSfromtheJapanesebullettrain,anearlyriser
in1964,toitsprogressiveexpansionincountrieslike
Today
only 7% of
travelers and
11% of goods
in Europe
travel by train.
• The European Union wants to mobilize resources and
alliances. So the continent becomes a railroad territory, to
contribute to climate neutrality by 2050.
• Goals. To double High Speed traffic by 2030 and triple it
by mid-century. Doubling the transport of merchandise
by 2050. That travelers choose rail instead of air for short
trips up to 500 kilometers.
• A more united Union... Progress toward the Single Railroad
Space to joint the countries. Not just for economic ties, but
also cultural and for a sense of belonging.
• … and more sustainable. Due to the growth of renewable
electricity, resilient infrastructures or the replacement of
diesel with hydrogen. And social sustainability: the railroad
industry as a source of jobs, business and the backbone of
metropolitan areas.
• Investment. €25 billion annually: the price of maintaining
and renewing the European network, according to
Mckensey. The Union’s Net Generation funds recognize
that need and go toward financing railroad projects.
2021, EUROPEANYEAR
OFTHE RAILROAD
HIGH SPEED WILL
CONTRIBUTE TO THE
EUROPEAN UNION’S
CLIMATE NEUTRALITY NOW
THROUGH 2050
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BIOGRAPHY OF A
RAILROAD SAGA
1861-1879 1880-1929 1931-1980
1861
Rafael Beltrán de Lis
founds MZOV and obtains
the concession the line
between Medina del
Campo and Zamora.
Strategic because it
connects the northern
plateau (and by extension,
Madrid) with Galicia.
1862
General Railroad Plan.
Spain has 1,978 kilometers
in service and 11 lines. At
that time, the train from
Madrid to Hendaya took 16
hours.
1865
MZOV begins to build
a new line with 6,000
workers: Orense-Vigo,
some 132 kilometers.
1877
KingAlfonsoXIIvisitsthe
company’stwolinesand
travelsintheinauguraltrain
fromRedondelatoVigo.
1885
The network interweave.
MZOV inaugurates the Orense
to Monforte line, which allows
for the Pontevedra-Vigo-
Orense departure to Coruña-
Leon. Thus the isolation of
Medina-Zamora is broken.
1890
A technological leap: iron rails
replaced with steel.
1906
The railroad backbone. The
MZOV lines already transport
840,000 travelers and 245,000
tons of merchandise.
1921
ThemergerofMZOVand
thebuilderCubiertasy
Tejadosobtainstheﬁrstlarge
publiccontract:planning,
manufacturingworksand
stationsontheRipolltoAx-
Les-Thermes(France)line.That
yearonemilliontravelersare
surpassed,andthecompany
participatesintheconstruction
oftheinternationalstation
ofCanfranc,todayaCultural
InterestSite.
The other great branch of the company’s
genealogical tree is the engineering
Entrecanales y Távora, also specialized in railroad
infrastructure. it is a pioneer in new techniques
like steel and reinforced concrete.
Between the 30s and the 70s
Itmakesadecisivecontributiontothenetwork.It
buildsmultiplelines(Soria-Barcelona,Ferrol-Gijon,
Haro-Logroño,Cullera-Tabarnes,amongothers)
andstationslikeFuentesdeOñoroorBadajoz.It
expandsthemetrolinesinMadridandBarcelona,
deliversstructureslikethebridgeovertheRio
JucarinCullera,theElMuseltunnelorthecovered
railroadinaneighborhoodinZaragoza.Italsoworks
abroad,buildingarailroadcomplexinLibya.
1990s
ThelaunchofHighSpeed(HS).Builds234of
the472kilometersoftheMadrid-Sevillaline,
inauguratedforthe1992UniversalExpo.
In1997
Cubiertas and MZOV merge with Entrecanales
y Távora, and ACCIONA is born. It multiplies
its capacity to drill the HS tunnels from
Guadarrama or Pasajes, in their day the 5th and
8th largest in the world.
Balance in April 2021
Itsinfrastructuresexpand:HSlineslikeMilan-
NaplesorMedina-Mecca,theFollowLinerailroadin
Norway,recentlysignedcontractsforMelbourne
(Australia)ortheMayanTraininMexico,inaddition
toconstructionfromscratchortheexpansionof
metrosinQuito,VancouverorSãoPaulo.
ACCIONA’s history as a specialist in railroad infrastructures begins long before its own birth in 1997.
It takes off in 1861 with another foundational company for the Spanish railroad, MZOV,
and continues with its direct precursor: Entrecanales y Távora.
THIS IS ITS STORY
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France, the United Kingdom, Belgium or Germany.
And Spain, the second largest behind only China.
“HS has fortified the Spanish internal market, the
economic integration of a very regionally, even
provincially compartmentalized country, and
until recently conditioned for not always fluid and
easy transportation connections. One of the great
benefits has been to the service sector, including
tourism,” comments Emilio Ontiveros, president
of Analistas Financieros Internacionales (AFI).
We’re talking about a country with a commit-
ment to the railroads José Manuel Díez Imbrechts
(1787-1849), a name that should not be forgotten.
In 1829, he presents the first railroad application
in Spain and founds (another memorable name)
the Association of the Iron Rail Company to trans-
fer the wines from Jerez to a port on the Rio Gua-
dalete. It fails due to lack of financial support, but
its intuition toward progress triumphs.
EPIC AND MOUNTAIN
The running of a Spanish train is the end of an
epic. Its launch coincides with an especially hard
19th Century, which begins with the Battle of
Trafalgar and ends with the Cuban War. In addi-
tion, engineering faces an anti-railroad terrain,
rugged and mountainous.
Some studies indicate that one kilometer of Span-
ish rail could cost up to five times more than the
average in a flat country. So, to allow for traction
of larger locomotives, more capable of climbing,
the width of the rail was increased with respect to
the international standard.
As much as possible, the country has been com-
mitted to its railroads since the celebrated Barce-
lona-Mataro line, with its own developments like
the Talgo, a precursor of HS. The Spanish railroads
reflect the value (economic and attitudinal) of pri-
vate initiative, taking on the risk of assuming huge
investments, which the public coffers cannot. That
was the role of MZOV or Entrecanales y Távora,
precursors to ACCIONA. Today, of the 3,000 kilo-
meters of Spanish HS rail, 1,200 bear its signature.
The story continues… at 300 kilometers per hour.
“Not traveling is dying little by little,” said the jour-
nalist Jesús Quintero. Moving around is in the human
DNA. The hominem viatorem values a quartet of
virtues: cost, time, enjoyment and sustainability. And
the railroad meets them.
“The implementation of High Speed throughout the
territory, the use of renewable energies, the develo-
pment of railroad networks around the major metro-
politan areas and the urban metro systems, illuminate
the railroad as the great hope of this century,” explains
Antonio Muñoz Garrido, Director of the Specialized
Railroad and Tunnels Unit, and director of North Atlantic
Construction, of ACCIONA’S Construction division.
TRAVEL, LIVE AND LET LIVE
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ADINA VĂLEAN
COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
“We need the States to invest
in railroad infrastructure”
Has the railroad been the
precursor to European
development?
Certainly, it transformed the
Old Continent and contributed
decisively to economic and social
growth. It served to unify Europe
and at the start of the century
formed a network that still con-
nects us today. Our companies
are work champions and a valiant
force of growth and employment:
they give jobs to nearly a million
workers in the Union. And we
are the largest net exporter of
railroad supplies.
What role does it play in the
sustainable strategy?
With respect to the environment,
it is energy efficient, and will
largely contribute to the transition
toward a climate neutral continent
by 2050. But to take the most
advantage of its potential requires
more attractive and reliable ser-
vices to attract more customers,
tempt them so they choose it
over other forms of travel, es-
pecially highways and flying. The
development of the Trans-Euro-
pean Transportation will increase
capacity and help launch the
digital railroad on which the entire
Union works, including politicians,
manufacturers and operators.
Would only High Speed be
competitive with flying?
In general, for distances of up
to 800 kilometers, HS railroad
service can successfully compete
with aviation. In addition to the
travel time, the service quality,
number of daily departures and
closer location of the stations
play in its favor. Many HS services
partly use conventional lines, and
their improvement will expand the
scope without great expense. In
addition, a network of revital-
ized overnight trains will offer
alternatives to long distance air
transportation.
Will proximity, metros or
tramways contribute to smart
cities?
The railroad is undoubtedly one
of the stars of sustainable urban
transportation. To be competitive
with other means, its infrastruc-
ture and services have to be well
ADINA VĂLEAN WANTS
EUROPEAN RAILROADS TO
REPEAT THEIR HISTORY.
THE GUIDE? ELEVATE
THE QUALITY,
COMPETITIVENESS AND
ATTRACTIVENESS OF
THEIR SERVICES.
TRANSPORT
designed, above all in access to
the stations, safety, the supply of
information and connectivity with
local transportation.
You’re projecting a future of
expansion for us. To achieve this,
should the railroad infrastructure
be expanded?
We face challenges like a gener-
alized lack of investment in both
maintenance and new construc-
tion in some zones. We have to
increase the quality of the service
for both goods and passengers. I
am pleased to tell you we are put-
ting our money where our mouth
is: more than 75% of the financing
program Connecting Europe Fa-
cility has bene used to co-finance
railroad projects between 2014
and 2020, and the railroad will
continue to be fundamental in
the 2021-2027 program. But we
also need the States to invest in
railroad infrastructure.
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A DOG MEASURES A RECENTLY BLASTED TUNNEL TO THE MILLIMETER.
THE CLEANER AT A COVID SITE WORKS WITHOUT A BREAK AND
WITHOUT A MASK. THESE ARE ROBOTS THAT CAN ENSURE HUMAN
SAFETY AND UNLEASH CREATIVITY.
COWO
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INNOVATION
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protect the human staff.
“We spoke with the lead cleaner to see exactly what they
needed,” explains Carlos Crespo González-Calero, Manag-
er of the Skill Center for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence,
which is part of ACCIONA’s Digital Hub. What they need-
ed was a robot assistant that could disinfect more than 30
rooms in just eight hours.
Mission accomplished. To create the SaferBot, they adapted
a device used in logistics that can carry weight and move
by using two laser sensors that detect shapes and objects (it
locates them on a map to decide where to go). They armed
it with eight powerful ultraviolet lamps that emit a wave-
length of 254 nanometers, thereby killing the virus. These
lamps destroy its RNA (ribonucleic acid) and prevent it
from replicating within the body, rendering the corona-
virus inert. Why eight lamps and why that intensity? How
long should the battery last? All these decisions were made
according to the hospital’s limitations. “We’re very happy
with the result. It benefits us all,” Crespo explains.
eople may think these robots will put peo-
M
Mof work. It is an understandable fear and it
M
Mned once before with Luddism in the 19th
M
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M
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M
Mted the labor force towards these sectors,
M
Mwards the mass ranks of unemployment.
M
Mricultural mechanization, for example. It is
M
Mly this freed-up time for creativity that can
M
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M
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M
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M
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M
Mng with artificial intelligence (AI) and auto-
M
M. In 2018 Accenture predicted that compa-
M
Mvesting in AI would generate 10% more jobs
M
M. The pandemic has curtailed this particular
M
Mfigure, but not the trend.
The World Economic Forum predicts that in just
four years, 47% of work worldwide will be auto-
mated to some degree. By that time, this may result
in 85 million lost jobs, but this same technological
revolution would create 97 million jobs “adapt-
ed to the new division of labor between humans,
machines and algorithms.”
According to the consulting firm Connecting
Visions, the top ten most sought-after profes-
sions in the near future will be robotics and auto-
mation experts.
So what internal logic can explain a phenome-
non that is more constructive than destructive?
The increased efficiency and productivity ensured
by technology translates into profit which can be
reinvested in growth, thus generating new expec-
tations that need new products and services to
satisfy them. In other words, value will not come
A R C H 2 0 2 0 .
A H O S P I T A L I N
M A D R I D N E E D S
T O C O N V E R T A
C O R O N A V I R U S
W A R D I N T O A N
O N C O L O G Y W A R D .
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former engineer at
the European Space
Agency and Manager
of the Skill Center
for Robotics and
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from replacing people with machines, but rather
from the synergy between them.
Crespo illustrates this idea with a true story:
“Ángel is a construction maintenance techni-
cian. Although his job was in danger, he still has
it today and it’s stable. How? Because now he is
responsible for the maintenance… of robots.”
CREATIVITY AND SYNERGY
Machines take on the most dangerous or dull jobs
so that people can use their creativity and inge-
nuity to make a real diﬀerence. This is the goal of
the Skill Center.
And it not only works for specific projects, but
also as a business and synergy model. The Saf-
erBot’s lamps that are used to kill the virus were
not purchased from a third party. “They are from
a water treatment plant in Murcia and were given
to us by the Water division, and precisely when
they were in short supply because their eﬀective-
MASTER PRINTER
“Robotic arms allow us to print in all
dimensions of space and not just
along Cartesian axes like traditional 3D
printing. This gives us six degrees of
freedom: remote centralized control,
speed of execution, working on-site
with the project, diversity of strengths
according to use, modular and reusable
design, structural and non-structural
applications. Complemented by the
software we develop at ACCIONA,
they make it possible to form shapes
that are impossible with other
techniques,” explains Carlos Egea
Ruiz, Manager of the company’s Skill
Center for 3D Printing Innovation.
The goal is to produce structural
elements that can be used as
assembly modules for the most
complex engineering projects.
This will increase efficiency and
reduce costs, lead times, emissions,
material and waste.
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ness against the virus boosted demand,” adds Crespo.
The treatment plants use them for water purification. A
company dedicated to developing robots while at the
same time managing the entire water cycle has these
cross-cutting advantages.
“Sometimes,” he continues, “a project manager pre-
sents us with an objective, such as profitability or
resolving a specific problem, and we propose a solution.
We use open innovation, which is not innovating for
the sake of innovating, but rather addressing needs or
finding technologies that improve business.”
Names of Skill Center professionals: David, Nicoletta,
Jorge, Andrea. Names used in science fiction: UR10,
MiR 200, Warthog, Pepper, Spot. The latter are some
of the robots developed by the former in this human/
machine alliance. Others will follow, just like with
the staff on the company’s construction sites and the
equipment at a hospital.
The complexity of the robots mirrors that of profession-
al profiles. There is no university that trains robotics
engineers, which is why it is so difficult to find special-
ists. It is a broad discipline where electronics, electric-
ity, mechanics, software and control theory overlap.
There are some master’s degrees in Europe but not a
complete curriculum as such.
The solution is to recruit industrial and telecommunica-
tions engineers with additional training or experience in
robotics, and then provide in-house company training.
They must not only design the machine but also develop
the professional who creates it until the Skill Center is
equipped with software, field instruments, electronics,
mechanics and pure AI equipment.
They will soon add another profile that is “attuned to
the latest in academic research and innovations that
surface one year but take five years to reach the com-
panies. We want direct access so that we can be faster
in introducing these innovations,” explains Crespo.
REVOLUTION 5.0
Automation is the future; it will lead the next technolog-
ical revolution that is currently underway. In the mean-
time, 5G networks will ensure immediacy and reliability
for the remote and real-time control of highly complex
machines in engineering, construction, transportation,
logistics and even in remote medicine, as shown by the
latest versions of the Da Vinci surgical system.
Cleaning a photovoltaic plant; transporting materials;
working in hostile environments; monitoring safety and
health; reducing risks; improving profitability; unbur-
dening people of the dirtiest, most monotonous tasks
that are dangerous due to the worker’s wear involved
— all of this is already on the horizon for robotics, and its
possibilities will catapult the AI coefficient.
We are going to blast a tunnel. There cannot
be any lights on during the detonation.
Afterwards, we have to release the explosive
gases and wait for the dust and debris to
settle. It is only then that a topographer can go
down to take measurements.
However, on the company’s construction
sites a dog has managed to dramatically
shorten that task. It is a robot dog, of course,
the Boston Dynamics’ Spot, which can work
amidst gas and debris, walk hundreds of
meters in total darkness to measure the
results of the explosion using a high-definition
laser scanner –and without any human risk.
“It picks up reference points to build a map and
orient itself,” explains Carlos Crespo, Manager
of the Skill Center for Robotics and Artificial
Intelligence. “We didn’t know if he would be able
to do it in a recently blasted tunnel, but he did.
The goal was to go 90 meters and we stopped
him at 400, but he could have kept going. He
showed us that robotics is part of the future.”
AN ENGINEER’S
BEST FRIEND
FREEING UP TIME
FOR CREATIVITY CAN
GENERATE BUSINESS
ACTIVITY AND
NEW SOURCES OF
EMPLOYMENT
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EXCEPT FOR THE AMOUNT OF DUST A JOB RAISES,
THE BIM INFORMATIONAL MODEL KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT LONG
BEFORE IT STARTS. THIS UNPRECEDENTED CAPACITY TO MANAGE
AND MONETIZE DATA WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE EVOLUTIONARY
LEAP IN CONSTRUCTIONS: THEIR INDUSTRIALIZATION.
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“We built 23 kilometers of four lanes, five new crossings
and bridges, routes for pedestrians and cyclists, drainage
systems, electrical installations and three double tun-
nels between one and four kilometers long,” explains
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to design responses intuitively.
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ty of the work. It has become the key enabler in the
digital transformation of our sector because it is not
feasible to address the generalized use of technolo-
gies like the digital twin, digital fabrication, auton-
omous machinery or big data without the relational
information model BIM offers,” explains Fernando
Blanco, Manager of the BIM unit of ACCIONA’s Digi-
tal Transformation Department.
It has become an inclusive solution that will be indis-
pensable for any business professional in the next
decade. The BuildingSMART association figures a
400% increase in the application of BIM in Spanish
public works in the next few years.
It will be a key tool that, by Royal Decree, has given
birth in Spain to the Commission to incorporate the
Design:
The BIM model understands complex projects much better.
It facilitates interaction between advance design and
execution. It optimizes cost estimation and data coherence.
Construction:
Anticipates construction challenges and diﬃculties.
Increases reliability of costs and job deadlines.
Improves organization, planning and safety.
Management:
Optimizes infrastructure maintenance and management.
Anticipates and simulates the evolution of buildings.
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BIM methodology in public contracting (CBIM)
whose regulatory framework becomes a require-
ment to compete in a tender. “Its main goal is
to improve the efficiency of the investment and
public contracting and the competitiveness of the
sector, not just in Spain, but throughout Europe,”
explains Blanco. Various European directives have
already started to implement BIM.
LOWER PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
For companies like ACCIONA, this advance may
reaffirm its positive impact on the public coffers,
via efficiency. The CBIM and the European Com-
mission calculate the savings the model the per-
mits for all actors in a project (builder, engineer,
client, subcontractors, etc.): from 13% to 21% dur-
ing construction and 10% to 17% in the operating
phase. They also detail the international certifica-
tions a BIM must have to bid for tenders.
In addition to industrialization, another aspect
explains its strategic projection: the social and
environmental impact, thanks to energy and
material efficiency, in line with several Sustain-
able Development Goals, such as 9 (Industry,
Innovation and Infrastructure) or 11 (Sustainable
Cities and Communities).
THE BIM MODEL
IMPROVES PRODUCTIVITY
AND COST SAVINGS
ACCIONA applies
BIM in projects
of all sizes, types
and business. For
example, in water for
desalination plants,
in Real Estate, both
in the planning phase
and in construction
and, preliminarily, in
maintenance.
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cludesanytypeofBIM
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projects,withmore
than€500million
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workshavealready
beenimplemented
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coverthedistance
fromMadridtoBar-
celonaandequatesto
1,000soccerfieldsin
buildingarea.
Among other pro-
jects, the method
is applied on all rail
tunnels on the Follo
Line (Norway), in the
metros in Quito, São
Paulo, Vancouver
and Dubai, in the
Sevillian Puente
del Centenario, the
desalination plants
in Al Kobar (Saudi
Arabia), Fujairah (Arab
Emirates) or Tseung
Kwan (winner in the
Autodesk Hong Kong
BIM Awards 2020,
for application of
the model to solve
problems during
construction), a
residential promotion
in Méndez Álvaro or
the busines campus
in Mesena, both in
Madrid.
The company has
already planned its
evolution toward an
integrated BIM model
to increase efficiency
and adapt to the new
regulatory frame-
work. The proprietary
algorithms will edit
the model in real time
and transfer that
information to the
robots deployed on
the job to achieve a
new leap in agility and
efficiency.
CONSTRUCTION,
WATER, REAL ESTATE...
The cost savings
in construction
and operation
makes the BIM
a competitive
advantage in
public bidding and
private contests.
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E6 RANHEIM-VÆRNES
1. Zero accidents and injuries,
an environment that promote
human and environmental
health.
2. Minimize annoyance
to drivers and residents,
greenhouse gas emissions
and other pollutants, the
temporary and permanent
impact on crops.
3. The project aspires to
achieve BIM maturity level 3
(standard ISO 19650-2) with
all team members united in
the continuous, integrated and
multidisciplinary collaboration
process to improve design
and construction methods,
quality, execution time
and cost. Digitalization is a
determining factor in this
process.
4. Asaresult,allproject
informationanddocumentation
isintegratedandsharedon
asinglecollaborativeweb
platforminboththeplanningand
construction,andtheoperation
andmaintenancephases.
5. Itcreatesavirtualdesign
prototypethatintegratesthe
BIMmodels(layout,drainage,
structures,etc.),whichfacilitates
consultation.Italsogeneratesa
GISviewtoaccessinformation
relatedtothelayoutofthe
highwayandthecommunitiesit
connectsviatheweb,aswellas
environmentalimpacts,public
servicesaffected,etc.
6. It defines a BIM Execution
Plan (BEP) do that all
participants are aware
of the opportunities and
responsibilities associated with
incorporating the BIM into the
workflow.
7. Pilot program based on an
AIM (Active Information Model)
solution that records digital
information from the model
to be used in operation and
maintenance: emergency signs
and booth, roads, side areas,
water and drainage systems,
signage or electrical cables.
HOW BIM IS APPLIED ON THIS HIGHWAY PROJECT IN NORWAY
Permits all
these uses:
• Modeling.
• Design and design
revision.
• 3D Coordination.
• Generates 2D and 3D
documents.
• Measurements.
• Task analysis.
• Safety and health.
• Traffic detours.
• As-built Model.
• Supply, deadline, cost
and sustainability
controls.
• Operation and
maintenance.
GOALS AND PHASES
Illustrator
Fernando
del
Hambre
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TO
PLAN ET
WATER
THE HEALTH OF THE
EARTH DEPENDS ON
THE HEALTH OF ITS
WATER.
THE DECADE OF
OCEAN SCIENCE
FOSTERS RESEARCH
AIMED AT STARTING
TO HEAL THIS
VITAL YET ALMOST
FORSAKEN PART OF
OUR WORLD.
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by Elena S. García
THE HEALTH OF THE
EARTH DEPENDS ON
THE HEALTH OF ITS
WATER.
THE DECADE OF
OCEAN SCIENCE
FOSTERS RESEARCH
AIMED AT STARTING
TO HEAL THIS
VITAL YET ALMOST
FORSAKEN PART OF
OUR WORLD.
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IT’S CALLED WATER,
BECAUSE OCEANS
COVER MORE
THAN 2/3 OF ITS
SURFACE. BUT THE
TECHNOLOGY-BASED
CIVILIZATION THAT
INHABITS IT, THE
WATER DWELLERS, HAS
EXPLORED JUST 5% OF
THESE OCEANS. THEY
MAY BE INTELLIGENT,
BUT THEY’RE HARDLY
LOGICAL: THEY
BARELY ALLOCATE
ANY RESOURCES
TO RESEARCHING
THE OCEANS, EVEN
THOUGH 3 BILLION
RELY ON THEM FOR
THEIR LIVELIHOODS.
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SCIENCE
alarm in the face of “unprecedented threats.” All
of the world’s tropical coral reefs could be dead
by the end of the century, and there will be more
plastic than fish by 2050.
Science still hasn’t been able to assess the cumu-
lative effects of human activity on these ecosys-
tems in terms of pollution, warming or acidifica-
tion, and according to UNESCO, “protecting and
sustainably managing the ocean is essential for
food, livelihoods and mitigating climate disrup-
tion and related disasters.”
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
If the Decade calls for public-private partnership,
what can ACCIONA do to heed this call? “It’s an
opportunity to foster multidisciplinary collabo-
ration and to achieve synergies between marine
research bodies and our R&D&I departments in
the areas of digital transformation, engineering
and design, construction, operation, and mainte-
nance,” explains Fernando Cortabitarte, Head of
O&M Desalination in ACCIONA’s Water business.
Research can work to serve various Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) in addition to Goal
14, which is devoted specifically to life below
water and conservation and sustainable use of the
oceans, seas and marine resources.
“Our own investment in R&D&I translates into
positive impacts, both direct and cross-cutting,
with respect to other SDGs that the Decade also
has a bearing on,” explains Cortabitarte. For
example, Goal 6, clean water and sanitation,
It’s a premise worthy of science fiction, but if we
replaced the name “Water” with “Earth,” we’d
be describing our planet.
We Earth dwellers are far better acquainted with
the surface of Mars than the ocean floors of our
home planet, even though that colossal mass of
water plays a key role in regulating the climate
and absorbing almost a third of the CO2
generat-
ed by human activity.
Setting this tremendous paradox to rights was the
UN’s goal when it declared the period from 2021
to 2030 the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustain-
able Development. The aim is to mobilize the sci-
entific community, the political establishment,
the private sector, and civil society based on a
common program of research and technological
innovation, in an attempt to break with the per-
verse logic that would hold that what we don’t
know, we don’t value, and what we don’t value
isn’t worth wasting resources on.
RESOLVE AND BUDGET
To explore the new ocean frontier we need spe-
cialized boats, submarine robots, submersible
vehicles, satellite images... money. Yet countries
are investing just 0.04% to 4% of their total R&D
investment towards this goal, with an average
investment of 2% of their research budgets.
“To restore the marine environment, we need
an ocean science revolution,” warned UN Sec-
retary-General António Guterres at the launch
of the Decade of Ocean Science. He sounded the
TO RESTORE
THE MARINE
ENVIRONMENT,
WE NEED AN
OCEAN SCIENCE
REVOLUTION
Under
the new
2020-2025
Sustainable
Development
Plan,
ACCIONA can
contribute to
various SDGs
that serve
the objectives
of ocean
research.
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DESALINATED WATER, TREATED WATER
What knowledge can ACCIONA contribute?
- Expertise in water management, resilient infrastructure, renewable
energy, water treatment and sanitation.
- Expertise in marine water characterization to design and operate
desalination plants with a lower carbon footprint that use fewer
resources, and models to predict the evolution of this characterization
to enable continual improvements in efficiency.
- Expertise in water usage circularity to maximize its reuse and
only discharge it when doing so will improve the environment. This
principle also applies to the brine obtained in desalination, which can
aid in the recovery of degraded areas. The Javea (Spain) Desalination
Plant is the first reverse osmosis plant in the world capable of diluting
brine to minimize environmental impact.
because desalination provides drinking water in
water-stressed areas; Goal 7, affordable, non-pol-
luting energy, as the oceans harbor renewable
sources; and Goal 13, climate action, because the
oceans are carbon sinks.
KNOWLEDGE
“We operate at all levels of the water management
cycle and we come into contact with the ocean dur-
ing desalination and during discharge of treated
water. We already contribute our knowledge and
technology in these areas, but the Decade will allow
us to increase our contribution,” says Cortabitarte.
The forces are beginning to mobilize. In Decem-
ber 2020, world leaders representing almost
40% of the planet’s coastlines, from Australia,
Canada, Chile, Fiji, Ghana, Indonesia, Jamaica,
Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Portugal and the
co-chairs of the Ocean Panel, Norway and Palau,
pledged to sustainably manage 100% of their
national waters by 2025.
It’s time for the other 60% to answer the call.
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CIRCULAR ECONOMY
TRANSITIONING TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN ALL OF
ACCIONA’S ACTIVITIES AND DEVELOPING NEW BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES ALONG THE WAY. WHO IS MOVING
THE COMPANY CLOSER TO THIS GOAL? THIS DIVERSE,
PERMANENT, STRATEGIC WORKING GROUP.
EDITH
GUEDELLA BUSTAMANTE
Head of the Roads and
Environment Group in the
Construction Technology Center.
ShemanagesR&Dforsustainableground
improvementandroadsurfacetreatments,evaluates
thelifecycleofconstructionprocessesandtechnology,
implementseco-designandindustrialsymbiosis
strategieswithintheConstructionbusiness,selects
circularmethodsforInfrastructure,andfosters
newbusinessmodels.Shehasparticipatedin
circularinitiativesforprojectslikeFissacand
Paperchain(EU),theHarwoodBridge
Project(Australia),andtheFontde
laFigueraHighway(Spain).
RODRIGO
DE ESTEBAN MARTÍNEZ
Head of Studies and Strategy
for the CEO’s Office in ACCIONA’s
Infrastructure Business.
He manages the CEO’s office in addition to
conducting business intelligence studies and
drafting related reports. In the Circular Economy
Team, he coordinates strategic proposals
and ideas. He also creates systemic maps,
develops communication initiatives
and lines of reasoning for senior
management, and scans for
business opportunities.
CAROLINA
FERRANDIS POMÉS
Head of Sustainable Business
Development Consulting in Engineering.
She manages a multidisciplinary team
that develops international Sustainable
Development Goals projects such as
producing heating and cooling in urban grids
with 100% renewable energy, Waste-to-
Energy strategies, energy-efficient
building rehabilitation, and urban
regeneration. She puts her energy
efficiency experience to work
in the Team.
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Head of the Roads and
Environment Group in the
Construction Technology Center.
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thelifecycleofconstructionprocessesandtechnology,
implementseco-designandindustrialsymbiosis
strategieswithintheConstructionbusiness,selects
circularmethodsforInfrastructure,andfosters
newbusinessmodels.Shehasparticipatedin
circularinitiativesforprojectslikeFissacand
Paperchain(EU),theHarwoodBridge
Project(Australia),andtheFontde
laFigueraHighway(Spain).
RODRIGO
DE ESTEBAN MARTÍNEZ
Head of Studies and Strategy
for the CEO’s Office in ACCIONA’s
Infrastructure Business.
He manages the CEO’s office in addition to
conducting business intelligence studies and
drafting related reports. In the Circular Economy
Team, he coordinates strategic proposals
and ideas. He also creates systemic maps,
develops communication initiatives
and lines of reasoning for senior
management, and scans for
business opportunities.
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FERRANDIS POMÉS
Head of Sustainable Business
Development Consulting in Engineering.
She manages a multidisciplinary team
that develops international Sustainable
Development Goals projects such as
producing heating and cooling in urban grids
with 100% renewable energy, Waste-to-
Energy strategies, energy-efficient
building rehabilitation, and urban
regeneration. She puts her energy
efficiency experience to work
in the Team.
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PAULA
PÉREZ SÁNCHEZ
Head of Digital Transformation
in the Water Business.
She fosters process efficiency via
digital tools and methods as well as
digital culture in teams and a collaborative
model. In the Team, she implements
circular initiatives throughout the water
cycle and in the use of resources, in
addition to specific projects such as
characterizing and eliminating
microplastics in wastewater
treatment plants.
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FÉLIX GONZÁLEZ YAGÜE
Director of Strategy and Office
of the CEO of Infrastructure.
The Circular EconomyTeam was
created in 2019 to drive circularity
in five main areas: Water,
Construction, Energy, Mobility,
and Waste.
Now is the time for action, with
major international agreements
in place (Paris, 2030 Agenda,
European Green Deal, etc.)
and favorable national and EU
legislation.
ACCIONA’s Circular Economy
Strategy is one of the most
innovative in the world, according
to the investment fund Sitra
(Finland).
The group has a key role in
ACCIONA’s Circular City Model
(the model implemented by
Urban Services) and in industrial
symbiosis aimed at optimizing
resources and maximizing profits.
BACKGROUND
FERNANDO
MIRAGAYA GARCÍA
Head of Business Development
for Urban Services and Environment.
He fosters projects relating to urban
services, environmental protection
in cities and their areas of influence,
and wastewater treatment, which
are basic elements of Smart City
solutions and the company’s
Circular City Model.
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