FCC Construcción

Machinery Management

Machinery Management is the office responsible for purchasing, maintaining and operating the company's machinery and auxiliary equipment. It is also responsible for providing consultancy and support in everything having to do with machines and systems. That includes studies, the development of procedures and works execution.

This office has special machines of great strategic importance (such as TBMs, movable formwork, floating docks, cable cranes and way equipment) as well as more-common kinds of units (for example, aggregate crushers, asphalt- and concrete-mixing plants, spreaders, tower cranes and auxiliary equipment).

Machinery Management works with studies, building-system design, documentation, procedure development, project tracking, investments and operation control.

The Central Machinery Depot and Central Auxiliary Equipment Storage take care of machine and equipment maintenance and operation, with the support of regional depots (or national depots in the case of subsidiaries abroad). They also lend out machinery engineers to site teams.

Leading Projects

Underground Construction

Infrastructure for extending Line 2 of the Madrid Metro to Las Rosas. Tunnel 3,818 metres long, bored with a dual-mode EPB tunnel-boring machine 9.40 metres in diameter.

Construction of Line 9 of the Barcelona Metro. Section: Mas Blau to Airport Terminal. Tunnel 4,125 metres long, bored with an EPB tunnel-boring machine 9.38 metres in diameter.

New North-Northwest Railway Access. Guadarrama Tunnels. Lot 3. Tunnel 14,093 metres long, bored with a double-shielded TBM 9.46 metres in diameter.

Marine Construction

New ferry terminal at Igoumenitsa Harbour, Greece. New 760-metre-long ferry docking quay. Built by floating dock using 26 caissons, each measuring 29.90 metres long, 11.00 metres across and 11.30 metres deep.

East Dock at Castellón Harbour. New berthing line and low-reflection seawall. Built by floating dock, using 11 caissons measuring 44.26 metres long, 24.20 metres across and 17.50 metres deep and two caissons measuring 33.50 x 24.20 x 17.50 metres, with external apertures to dissipate wave energy. Caisson foundations dumped by split barge.

Canals

Lower Los Payuelos Canal, Phase 1, in León. Open irrigation canal with a trapezoidal cross-section, 23 kilometres long, built using a concrete refiner and spreader designed for canal construction.

Dams

Castrovido Dam in Burgos. Straight gravity dam (680,000 m3 of vibrated concrete) and tailings dam (30,000 m3 of vibrated concrete). Typical equipment: Two 27-ton radial cable cranes; one concrete-mixing plant producing 320 m3/hour; one concrete-mixing plant producing 120 m3/hour; three nine-cubic-metre silo trailers on rails; one aggregate crusher producing 550 tons/hour with sand-washing capability.

La Loteta Dam in Zaragoza. Straight rock-fill dam (34 metres tall; 292-metre crown; 200,000 m3 filter and drain). Typical site facilities: One aggregate crusher producing 200 tons/hour with sand-washing capability to produce filters and drains with the required grain size.

Ibiur Dam in Guipúzcoa. Straight gravity dam (170,000 m3 of vibrated concrete). Typical equipment: Two 13.5-ton radial cable cranes; one concrete-mixing plant producing 200 m3/hour, three 4.5-cubic-metre silo trailers on tyres.

Bridges

Bridge over the Danube between Vidin, Bulgaria, and Calafat, Romania. Construction of a 1,791-metre-long progressive cantilever bridge with 80- and 180-metre spans, made of precast 100- and 250-ton sections. Typical site facilities and equipment: One casting plant; one launching gantry for 80-metre-long spans and segments weighing up to 100 tons; two bridge cranes for placing segments in cantilevered position, capable of handling 250 tons; two hoisting units capable of lifting 250 tons and projecting 22 metres; 250- and 100-ton concrete hoists.

Dual Carriageway A-4, Despeñaperros Relief Road. Construction of eight viaducts, a total length of approximately 3,100 metres, with 45-metre spans built span-by-span with precast segments weighing up to 60 tons apiece. Typical equipment: One casting plant; one set of formwork for setting segments in place span by span, with spans of up to 45 metres and segments weighing up to 70 tons; 70-ton concrete hoists.

Approaches to Ferrol Harbour, Doniños Viaduct. Construction of 561-metre viaduct with 53.5-metre spans and a single 12-metre-wide roadway, built span by span with in-situ concrete. Built using movable formwork for spans of up to 60 metres with a bearing capacity of 22 tons/metre and an independent system for changing support measurements.

Airports

New T4 terminal building at Barajas Airport. This includes the T4 terminal building and the construction of Barajas Airport's third runway and parallel taxiing strip. Typical equipment: One concrete plant producing 200 m3/hour; one asphalt-mixing plant producing 260 tons/hour; one hydraulic concrete spreader; asphalt spreaders; tower cranes.

Special Buildings

Torre Caja Madrid in Madrid. Office building 250 metres tall (270 metres measuring from the foundations) in the Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA), Madrid. Typical equipment: One 1,400-ton tower crane (280 metres tall under hook, maximum load 40 tons, 22 tons at 60 metres); two 160-ton self-climbing tower cranes; one 2,500-kilogram freight lift.

Torre Quadrat in Panama. Forty-storey apartment building (130 metres tall) in Panama City. Typical equipment: One 130-ton tower crane, one two-cab lift capable of lifting 2,500 kilograms per cab.