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On 2 December 2022, the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, inaugurated the Comptroller General of the State (CGE) complex after the comprehensive rehabilitation necessary for the damage caused by the riots of 2019.

The railway infrastructure administrator Adif has awarded the construction of the first section of the new southern railway access to the port of Castellón in a joint venture with Copasa and Torrescámara.
This work is part of the 8.3 km long railway infrastructure project that will connect the Mediterranean Corridor with the Port of Castellón.

Grupo Puentes has won a major contract worth almost $250 million to design, build and finance the Corredor de las Playas highway in Panama, which is being promoted by the Ministry of Public Works. The award culminates a successful career in the execution of public infrastructures in this Central American country, which began just five years ago. The project consists of widening the La Chorrera-Santa Cruz section of the Playas Corridor, which is part of the Pan-American Highway, to six lanes. Located in the province of West Panama, the current road is the only one that connects the nation’s capital with the inland provinces, with a high intensity of vehicle traffic, which is why it has been decided that the improved road should be elevated, in order to separate local traffic from long-distance traffic.

The section to be built by Grupo Puentes is 7.5 kilometres long. In addition to increasing the number of lanes from four to six, the most important action will be to raise the La Chorrera viaduct, 1,756 metres long and 26.50 metres wide, with 43-metre spans and cemented at depth with 1.5-metre-diameter piles. The Spanish company will also build the La Chorrera interchange, consisting of a large roundabout over the dual carriageway, rehabilitate two pedestrian walkways and install a new one, in addition to other improvements.

The start of the works, for which Grupo Puentes has a completion period of 850 days. The Panamanian Ministry of Public Works has particularly valued the guarantees provided by the Spanish company to speed up construction. The quality and compliance demonstrated by Grupo Puentes in the execution of the Atalaya-Mariato road, Cabuya interchange and Caminos de Santiago and de Mesa projects, with a total value of more than 190 million dollars, also played an important role in the awarding of the contract.

The Xunta de Galicia awarded to the joint venture: S.A. de Obras y Servicios, Copasa, Puentes y Calzadas Infraestructuras S.L.U, for about 48.3 million euros, the works for the extension of the 51,000m2 Ourense University Hospital Complex.

The works consist of the construction of a new hospital building in the Ourense University Hospital Complex, the refurbishment of the current Maternity Hospital, and the improvement of accesses, with a completion period of 40 months. This project is co-financed by European ERDF funds.

With this expansion, the hospital complex will have 7 floors and rooms with 932 beds, which also includes an experimental hospitalisation area and a virtual hospitalisation unit. This consists of the installation on floors six and seven of this building of two experimental hospitalisation units, where the results of innovative processes and new technologies applied to healthcare will be continuously evaluated. There will also be 21 individual “smart” rooms where new home automation techniques and remote monitoring will be applied.

On 12 January, Grupo Puentes began work for the Regional Government of Andalusia on the construction of the High Resolution Hospital in Roquetas de Mar, Almeria, which will be built by 2023.

On a plot of almost 50,000 square metres, the building will occupy an area of 16,300 square metres. This space will house a surgical block, a multi-purpose hospitalisation area, consulting rooms and radiology. It will have four operating theatres, a rehabilitation room, emergency department, radiology service and clinical support area. Patients will have 53 rooms. The centre will also have 27 outpatient consultations and 15 examination rooms. There will be a heliport for urgent patient transfers.

At the official groundbreaking ceremony, the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, highlighted the importance of the new hospital.

Grupo Puentes has reached a new milestone in public infrastructure in Central America by starting the construction of the longest bridge in El Salvador, called General Manuel José Arce. The importance of this event was highlighted by the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, who on 25 November laid the first stone, making the start of the works official.

The General Manuel José Arce Bridge will be located at the end of Route CA02W over the Paz River, on the La Hachadura-Pedro de Alvarado border between El Salvador and Guatemala, in the department of Ahuachapán. It will be of great significance in facilitating commercial traffic between the two countries, and will benefit some 400,000 people. 

Grupo Puentes is undertaking the project in a joint venture with DISA S.A. The La Hachadura bridge will be 256 metres long, with a span of 160 metres, the longest in El Salvador. It will span the Paz River, with a width of 20.3 metres, enough to accommodate four lanes, two in each direction.

The President of the Republic of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, travelled to the border point of La Hachadura on 25 November to lay the first stone. At the ceremony he said that “this new bridge, the longest in Salvadoran territory, totally modern, will not only facilitate rapid transit, but will also increase security”. The Salvadoran president added that “this will generate thousands of jobs in economic development and will also be a fundamental pillar for development”

The Quirónsalud group has awarded Grupo Puentes the construction of a new 15,000 m2 hospital center.

This project will be developed on five floors where 70 rooms, 6 operating rooms and 6 ICU boxes will be located. In addition, this hospital will offer a wide range of services with care in all specialties and multidisciplinary units to provide comprehensive and highly responsive care to patients,

This hospital stands out for its digital and environmentally sustainable development.

It is expected to be operational in 2023.

Grupo Puentes, in a joint venture with DISA S.A., will execute the La Hachadura bridge project on the border with Guatemala.
This 160m long bridge will be a national record for span length.
Together with the bridge, a 1.4 km long four-lane road will be built, as well as an interchange, which will help to decongest traffic at the “Kilo 5” in La Hachadura, a strategic commercial and tourist transit point with Guatemala.

Grupo Puentes is in the final phase of work execution of the projects for the Rehabilitation of the streets and roads of Santiago lines 1 and 2 and the Rehabilitation of La Mesa roads (Panamá)

The planting of trees has already begun in order to comply with the ecological compensation established in the contract, whereby 10 trees are planted for each one felled. There will be a total of 12,396 trees of native varieties, both timber (cocobolo, oak and guayacán) and fruit (lemon, cashew, guaba, soursop, tomato and mango).

The plantations will be located in schools, public areas and road easements with a selection of species according to the characteristics of the terrain, and will be maintained for at least 2 years to ensure the survival of all the units.