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Carlos Roa Juan de Arespacochaga Emilio Magdalena Pelayo Martínez (TIFSA) editorial 1968 | 1971-1983 1968-1971 1983-1988 1983-1989

o celebrate Ineco’s 50th anniversary, this special issue of Itransporte is ❝Special thanks also go dedicated to looking back on the most important events of the company’s history as recounted by some of the key people who participated and wit- to all of those friends nessed it. Their photographs, memories and perspectives have helped us and teachers from T to put together a summary of everything that has happened over these five decades, a time in which we went from being a small consulting firm with shareholder companies Vicente García Reyes Fernández (TIFSA) Antonio Alcaide Antonio Gracia five people on staff to become an international engineering company with over past and present, namely 1988-1993 1989-1999 1993-1996 1996-2000 3,000 employees and a presence in five continents. Adif, Renfe, ENAIRE and Ineco’s history is the story of a company that has embraced evolution, Aena, and other Spanish always oriented towards the design and modernisation of transport systems government institutions, and infrastructure, and with a desire to provide solutions without neglecting economic, social and environmental aspects. It is also the story of a large number who have helped us of professionals who, thanks to excellent training, determination and enthu- grow and take part in the siasm, have formed teams that have enabled us to achieve our current success. building of one of the In the midst of today’s digital revolution, looking back on the past has meant best transport networks remembering all of those who lived through and made these experiences pos- in the world❞ sible. Some are no longer with us. Others are still working with us or in other fields. To all of them, whether or not they are mentioned in these pages, we extend our thanks for making it possible for us to celebrate this anniversary. José Eladio Seco Antonio Fernández Gil Juan Torrejón Fernando Palao Special thanks also go to all of those friends and teachers from shareholder 50th anniversary 2000-2002 2002-2004 2004-2009 2009-2010 companies past and present, namely Adif, Renfe, ENAIRE and Aena, and other Spanish government institutions, who have helped us grow and take part in advisory team the building of one of the best transport networks in the world. Pilar Gª Alemany, Lidia Amigo, Miguel de Bernardo, Gabriel Díaz-Roncero, Juan Carlos Ceballos, Luis Chocano, José Ignacio Gálvez, The knowledge that we have gained has enabled us to overcome challenges Fco. Javier Gallego, José Ángel Higueras, and difficult times. Looking back on our history, from every crisis - and there María Luisa de la Hoz, Casimiro Iglesias, have been some very significant ones - we have always emerged in a position of Bárbara Jiménez-Alfaro, África Jiménez, Ernesto strength by taking advantage of opportunities and responding with efficiency, Labarta, José Mª Llorente, Adrián López, courage and rigour. We have been able to transform and adapt to the times, José Luis Mangas, Rafael Molina, Sergio Navarro, and we will continue to do so. Luis Negrete, Francisco Olmedo, Julio Resino, Roberto Serrano, Rafael Torres, José Mª Urgoiti, If we continue to maintain this capacity for reaction and evolution, we will Irene Thomas, Jara Valbuena. go far. The journey has only just begun. - Ignasi Nieto Pablo Vázquez Jesús Silva Isaac Martín-Barbero 2010-2011 2012-2014 2014-2017 2017-present

4 — itransporte itransporte — 5 From left to right, the company’s deed of incorporation; a 50 daily work order from YEARS 1975; civil engineer Carlos Roa, first president of Ineco; OF NEWS the first headquarters of the company; and, lastly, Ineco 1968-2018 employees in 1977.

20 July 1968 1983 1986 Spain joins the European Economic 1994 Tifsa created with Community: EEC legislation promotes new The newly created Pelayo Martínez Regidor planning activities, such as information Aena, Ineco’s majority at the helm shareholder, Tifsa (Tecnología e Investigación Fer- and environmental studies. COMMENCES its roviaria S.A.) is incorporated with an ini- aeronautical activities tial share capital of 50 million pesetas, firm Consultécnicos, selected over 20 oth- 1990 WORK BEGINS Ineco founded as a result of Renfe’s interest in having er consultancies from around the world, a subsidiary specialising in the research wins an international tender valued at 2 ON The Libertadores Carlos Roa declares that his intention in promoting the million dollars. To the left of the image, and development of proprietary railway Project for railway founding of Ineco is “to create a stable and permanent technology. Its first staff of 17 people, Juan Torrejón, from Ineco; in the centre, entity that will remain at the highest scientific level and is organised into four areas: Rolling Tito Rueda, president of FNC; on the right, integration in the stock, Facilities, Track and New Tech- Emilio Magdalena, president of Ineco. southern cone, exercise maximum practical wisdom in terms of trans- nologies, with a Structures department 1987 promoted by the port economics and coordination”. added in 1984. First national office opens Ministry of Transport, Ineco opens its first office in Barcelo- 1968 1976 na and, shortly afterwards, another in Renfe and the fifth First headquarters Devastating earthquake 1984 Renfe becomes Seville, where the company provides centennial society. With the objective of providing ser- disrupts the work of the sole shareholder of quality control services for the con- The aim is to integrate vices to Renfe and the Latin American Ineco technicians in struction of the site that will house the railway sector, Ineco, based in Madrid, Guatemala Ineco and transfers its Universal Exposition of Seville in 1992. all rail networks in Aena, a public entity created in becomes the first Spanish consultancy On Wednesday, 4 February 1976, projects team, generating The 1987 financial year closes with a Argentina, Bolivia, 1991, becomes a shareholder turnover of 2 billion pesetas. of Ineco in a capital increase specialising in transport consulting, at 3:01 a.m. local time (9:01 a.m. a significant increase in Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, economics and planning. The company in Spain), an earthquake measur- that begins in October 1993 is founded with a share capital of two engineering work. Peru and Uruguay, and closes in January 1994. ing 7.5 on the Richter scale strikes 1988 On 9 December, million pesetas and 400 shares, with Guatemala, with an epicentre lo- through specific After a third increase in 1995, 160 subscribed by Renfe. Its first head- cated 160 kilometres northeast of 1985 the Council of it increases its stake in Ineco contract with improvement works on to 61%. This heralds the end quarters are located at No. 44 Calle the capital city. The tremors dis- Ministers agrees that Santa Isabel. rupt the work of an Ineco team the World Bank four major corridors. of the company’s latest crisis, that is in the country working on all high-speed lines coinciding with the general 1972 a railway infrastructure moderni- should be built using 1992 recession affecting the coun- try after the events of 1992, New offices zation plan, which then becomes international gauge. Plane crash in the Alps In 1972, after a capital increase and a reconstruction plan. None of the 1992 begins tragically for Ineco: on 21 from which it will once again changes to the initial shareholders, technicians are among the 23,000 The government January, a flight from Lyon to Stras- emerge in a strong position. Ineco overcomes a difficult financial fatalities or 76,000 injured. considers extending bourg crashes, killing Jose Mª Guillén At this time, Ineco has 214 employees and Tifsa, 68. situation; the staff grows from 5 to 26, the gauge change to the Carmona, director of the Signalling making it necessary to move to new of- Thus begins a new field of ac- 1981 Projects and Works department, along fices at No. 2 Calle Orense; the follow- BOGOTÁ The company signs a contract with Ferro- entire network, but in with five Spanish engineers and two tivity: aeronautics. The com- ing year, a second office opens at No. METRO STUDY carriles Nacionales de Colombia (FNC) in the end decides against French technicians. All were on a work pany moves its offices to No. 12, and finally, the company moves to Colombia, the first contract led by Ineco to trip to investigate automatic driving 138 Calle Doctor Esquerdo in the 2nd floor of No. 4, where it will re- PRESENTED TO THE be financed by the World Bank. The com- it for technical and systems for the Cercanías Móstoles-El Madrid. main until 1994. COLOMBIAN PRESS. pany, in association with the Colombian budgetary reasons. Soto line in Madrid. ...

6 — itransporte itransporte — 7 1. Next to the first Tifsa logo, company president Reyes Fernández Durán on her trip to China (1995). 2. Javier García de Muro 50 and José Mª Mangas, expatriate employees in YEARS Colombia (1999). 3. From left to right: Mariola Alcalá, Ana OF NEWS Jiménez and Rosa González in the new offices in the Egeo 1968-2018 building (2001). 1 2 3

1995 1998 1999 2003 2007 2008 TIFSA: visit to China Work on the railways Ineco volunteers help The first Corporate The president of Tifsa, Reyes Fernán- New Ineco of Colombia clean up 6 tonnes of oil The Carlos Roa Classroom Responsibility Plan dez Durán, visits a rolling stock fac- headquarters Ineco provides Ferrocarriles del Norte spilled in Galicia created as a forum for tory in China in June as part of a trip Ineco purchases a building at de Colombia (FENOCO) with operational The company pays the expenses for technical debate to promote the Spanish railway in- No. 138 Paseo de la Habana. assistance in its freight transport for the transport and cleaning materials The aim, as the general director of The new headquarters has dustry. The president of Renfe, Mercè the commissioning of the Atlantic rail of a group of 30 volunteers who spend Ineco Antonio Monfort explains, room for 500 employees. Sala, its international director, Miguel network concession, involving the relo- 15 and 16 February in Galicia to help is “to create a permanent forum Corsini, the president of Alsthom cation of expatriate technical staff. clean up the oil spill from the sinking for technical debate in which spe- Spain, Eduardo Montes, and the CEO of the oil tanker Prestige. Over those cialists and experts can freely ex- of CAF also attend. In 1994, the Ger- 2000 two days, they are able to remove press themselves”. The Classroom From now on, the relationship with va- man consultancy De-Consult and Ineco commits itself to more than 6 tonnes of oil from the is named “in honour of Carlos Roa, rious NGOs is formalised, with an am- the French company Systra become the internet and new Galician coast. the beloved and greatly missed first bitious collaboration program. Ineco shareholders with 24.5% each. technologies president of Ineco”. adheres to the United Nations Global In May of this same year, the Ineco signs a contract with the public 2005 Compact and in 2009 it will launch its first issue of the corporative maga- enterprise Retevisión (now RED.ES) to first Equality and Integrity Plans. In the SPRING PARTY zine itransporte is published, carry out consultancy and technical as- image, a water supply project suppor- 1995 Carlos Roa dies: initially on a monthly basis. sistance work on the implementation of ted by the company in Same (Tanzania). “He was our teacher”, advanced telecommunication networks says Javier Pérez Sanz, and services with the aim of examining 2009 2007 Tranvía General Director and analysing the development of new Honourable mention technologies. de , for Sants Station of Infrastructure 1999 Ineco buys the Despite concerns over the so-called WITH INECO AS a Management at Renfe, ‘millennium bug’, the turn of the new mil- German and French lennium passes without the anticipated shareholder, opens during a memorial stakes in Tifsa, 49% problems, with the company’s computer its first line. held on 22 February at of the total, and the systems remaining unaffected. the Spanish Railways 2008 Ineco-Tifsa Group is 2001 Ineco, the Ministry of Foundation. created. According New offices in Public Works’ ‘in-house to its president, José the Egeo building On 10 June, Ineco-Tifsa Group throws resource’ New offices are opened in the Egeo its 3rd Spring Party at an estate on the The company’s president Juan Tor- 1996 On Wednesday, Eladio Seco, with this building to accommodate the compa- outskirts of Madrid, attended by some rejón explains that, after the absorp- 28 may, Madrid’s ‘Pasillo deal, “we hope to take ny’s expanding workforce. 800 people. Several events take place, tion of Tifsa, “conditions are right to On 23 April, the team of the project to including an outdoor meal, mini bull- expand technological capabilities expand the Sants Station in Verde’, consisting of advantage of our fight and an awards ceremony to hand and use synergies in other modes of receives an honourable mention at the a tunnel between potential with maximum 2002 Ineco works on out trophies to the winners of com- transport, such as roads and ports. 2009 Construmat Civil Engineering Atocha and Príncipe Pío performance and help Walvis Bay airport in pany football, basketball (in the image, Adaptation to European and Spanish Awards. In the image from left to right, the Alitas basketball team), mus and legislation determines the corporate Marcos Peña, Dragados; Miguel Ferrán- stations, is opened: this create intermodal Namibia; while Tifsa paddle tennis championships. Despite structure of the company and makes dez, Ineco-Tifsa; Ricardo Franco, Dra- is Ineco’s first major relationships that designs a refurbishment the rain, spirits are not dampened dur- Ineco-Tifsa Group the Government’s gados; José Miguel Bueno, Ineco-Tifsa; project for Madrid ing activities that included human ta- ‘in-house resource and technical Javier Dahl and Armando Brigos, Adif; comprehensive works are UNDOUBTEDLY ble football, a wind tunnel, boxing with service’ similar to other European Michael Ashiabor, Ineco-Tifsa; and Car- management project. extremely attractive”. Chamartin TRAIN STATION. giant gloves, quads and paintball. public enterprises”. los Ventura, Adif. ...

8 — itransporte itransporte — 9 1. Ignasi Nieto, president of Ineco, signing a contract for the expansion of Kuwait Airport (2011). 2. Javier de Cos, general director of International, signing the technical proposal for the Makkah- Madinah high-speed contract. Behind, from left to right, 50 Juan Luis Monjarás, YEARS Manuel Benegas and José Solorza (2012). 3. The current president OF NEWS of Ineco, Isaac Martín- Barbero, at the Transport Internationalisation 1968-2018 Observatory (2018). 1 2 3

2012 2015 2017 2017 2010 Ineco and Tifsa merge: the new company, Ineco Ecuador’s Strategic Implementation On 20 April, On 30 July, boasts a workforce of 3,000 employees. Mobility Plan of BIM in Spain the AVE high-speed work begins on the line to Seville, the preparation of the 2010 2012 first in Spain, and Master Plan for Dammam In memoriam: Javier López de Pablo, manager A year of large a project on which airport, the third of the Seville office contracts Ineco had worked largest in Saudi Arabia, The signing of the Makkah-Madinah since the 1980s, which will run until 2027. high-speed contract, the largest in the history of the company, takes place celebrates its 25th on 12 January during an official cer- birthday. emony at the Intercontinental Hotel in Riyadh, in the presence of Saudi 2018 The Ministry Arabian and Spanish dignitaries and of Public Works representatives from the 14 partners On 13 December, Ineco presents the 2017 A SPANISH-DUTCH has launched for its of the winning consortium, of which president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, Ineco is a member. with the final document of the country’s consortium, of which group of companies The manager of Ineco’s Seville In Spain, meanwhile, the Figueras- Strategic Mobility Plan, which it had On 15 July 2015, the BIM Commission, office, Javier López de Pablo (sec- Ineco is part, signs a Innovation and Perpignan high-speed line is opened, been preparing since 2011. In the im- headed by Ineco, is set up. In the im- ond from the right), dies suddenly representing the final stretch of the age, from left to right, team members in age, on the left of Minister Ana Pastor, contract in Amsterdam Internationalisation at the age of 65. An aeronautical Madrid-Barcelona-French border Ecuador: Pablo Fuente, Rafael Alcayde, Jesús Silva, President of Ineco, and engineer by profession, he joined for the design of a new plans, all of which line. This same year, the company is Óscar Díaz-Pinés, Ignacio Alejandre and Jorge Torrico, the company’s deputy the company in February 2005 to terminal at Schiphol involve Ineco in their awarded two of its most important in- Javier Gómez, project leader. director of projects. take charge of the office. In the ternational contracts: together with airport. preparation. image, during a meeting of na- its British partner, Capita, the design 2016 tional managers held on 22 July at of a section of the HS2 project in the 2014 Ineco’s headquarters in Paseo de IN MAY, AN INECO Works supervision for United Kingdom, and, in Brazil, along- Mexico City’s new airport 2018 la Habana. From left to right, Ed- side the engineering company EBEI, TEAM BEGINS WORK on the An international consortium, consist- uard Albors, manager from Cata- the supervision of works on the final First meeting of the Transport Orat of Abu Dhabi’s new ing of Ineco, Ayesa (also from Spain), lonia; José Francisco Laguna, from section of the Rodoanel Màrio Covas Internationalisation Observatory Aecom (USA) and Cal y Mayor (Mexico), Valencia; Javier López de Pablo, road project in São Paulo. In the photo, airport terminal. On 18 April, the secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Julio Gómez- win a four-year technical and admin- from Seville; and Pascual Villate, Ineco engineers José Luis Pancorbo Pomar, chairs the first meeting of the Observatory, which is attended by the president istrative supervision contract for the from the Basque Country. and José Isidro Díaz. of Ineco, Isaac Martín-Barbero; general director of Transformation, Internationalisation building of the passenger terminal and 2015 and Innovation, Eva Pulido; and director of Internationalisation and Commercial Intel- Ineco staff safe air traffic control tower at Mexico City’s ligence, Sergio Navarro. The meeting assessed the first actions of the Transport and 2011 after an earthquake new international airport. The contract

s Infrastructure Internationalisation Plan 2018-2020, which is coordinated by Ineco and includes the monitoring, supervision hits Nepal on April. The seeks to promote the overseas activities of Spanish transport companies. Contract signing and inspection of building works from

é leme On the 6th of the month, the Ministry of Public Works presents a report on the in Kuwait r company donates to the the pre-construction phase to com- Transport and Infrastructure Innovation Plan 2017-2020 to the Council of Ministers. Ineco signs a project manage- missioning. In terms of the contract _ and Red Cross to raise funds This report had been drafted and submitted the previous November by Ineco, which is ment contract on 14 March for amount, it is the second largest inter-

hoto for victims as it has been also working on a transport sustainability plan. the expansion of Kuwait airport. P national contract in the entire history doing since 2009. of the company. - 10 — itransporte itransporte — 11 he first work focused on multidisciplinary consult- With a scholarly and 50 ing studies incorporating engineering and involving charismatic personality, Carlos Roa (in the centre of the execution of preliminary road and rail projects, the image) promoted studies one of the most important of which was the Madrid- and reports on railways inside -Barcelona-Port Bou high-speed project. and outside the country and T undertook the first high-speed In 1973 and 1974, planning of the Madrid and Barce- study in Spain. lona Cercanías networks began, and this work continues to this day. During those years, research work on mobility at regional level was also carried out, including the master The first projects plans for the in 1979, followed by the Balearic Islands, Murcia, Castilla y León and the Basque Country. During this period, Ineco designed several arterial rail- way networks, such as those in Valencia, and produced studies and projects for the networks of Santander, Gijón and Vigo (1973), Madrid (1974), Jaén (1977) and Huesca (1978). Particularly notable were projects in Seville, which included the project and functional design of the Santa Justa station, the La Negrilla freight terminal, tunnel works on the line in the city centre and several Cercanías train stops. Numerous 1968-1982 freight studies were also carried out for Numerous Red Nacional de Ferrocarriles Españoles In the 1970s, Ineco experienced several changes in (Renfe). Julio Bermejo, a civil engineer who shareholders, increases in staff and moves to new railway spent 22 years at Ineco between 1978 and simulations 2012, explains: “At that time, studies were offices. The company went from having five members carried out to optimise the transport sys- on staff in 1971 to sixty-five in 1978. were carried tems of large steel plants: Ensidesa, Nueva Montaña Quijano, Sidegasa. For Renfe, in out with IBM addition to classic passenger corridor and Hocus and GPSS freight focal point studies, work with ur- ban planning was carried out on the ar- programs, terial railway networks of half of Spain”. including the By that time, technology had already become an important work tool, and the daily operation company was starting to develop its own of Cercanías computer programs. Concha Rodríguez- Portugal, an industrial engineer at Ineco Madrid from 1972 to 2011, recalls: “One of my first projects in 1974 which I particularly en- Arterial network planning, joyed and for which we received high praise from Renfe, Cercanías plans and freight studies were the involved simulations of large freight stations with complex main work of the time. rail operations. At the beginning, we did the simulations manually on scale models of the stations, using buttons for trains and making calculations with mechanical calcula- tors. We were the first to use the HOCUS and GPSS programs on the Renfe computer”. Regarding the first computerised financial programs, “The movement of the urban and Jorge del Fresno, an industrial engineer at Ineco from 1972 suburban masses gives the railway the 1970s to 2010, explains: “We began using the programs, which were written in BASIC, in 1976, with an HP30 4 MB programmable absolute superiority, and, for the great the Madrid-Zaragoza- computer, the only one in the company, that cost more than factories and cities of the future, the 700,000 pesetas. It was a very simple method that helped us Barcelona-Port Bou to calculate project costs. Even though by 1982, all accounting railway will play a very important role” high-speed line had been computerised, the philosophy remained the same”. Jose A. Fernández Gago, a civil engineer who has been at Carlos Roa, in an interview for the ABC newspaper on and international Ineco since 2008, highlights that “between the new devel- 5 December 1967, one year before the founding of Ineco opments launched by the Americans in the 1960s and the undertakings academic research headed up by Mascareñas in Spain in

12 — itransporte ... itransporte — 13 ... the 1980s, Ineco stands out as the first company in Spain, “We began using computerised back in 1975, to carry out economic/financial simulations ZAIRE Roa and a Renfe team financial programs, which were written programmed in BASIC, as part of a León-Campomanes toll receive dignitaries in BASIC, in 1976, with an HP30 4 MB road concession viability study”. from Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of programmable computer, the only one the Congo) in Madrid for the Kindu-Kisangani line in the company, that cost more than The beginnings of high speed feasibility study. 700,000 pesetas” In 1975, Renfe presented the first high-speed study in Spain, which was produced by Ineco. It included economic/finan- Jorge del Fresno, industrial engineer cial and geological studies, an alternatives analysis and the design of the final alignment. 13 years later, the govern- ment prioritised the construction of the high-speed line The Campomanes- between Madrid and Seville, meaning that the connection León toll road between Madrid and Barcelona did not become a reality concession study and until 33 years later, in 2008. In regard to this project, Agustín the company’s first Giménez, a draftsman at Ineco between 1973 and 2017, logo, both from 1975. recalls: “My first job at Ineco was the Madrid-Guadalajara section, which we designed by hand using plans from the in 1997, a market study was conducted on the Belgrano Army’s geographical department, provided to us by Topy- Norte railway line, commissioned by Ferrovías, the service’s car, first with three alternatives at a scale of 1:50,000 and operating company. finally with the selected alignment at a scale of 1:5,000”. In 1972, Carlos Roa and the general director Carlos de Inza, together with Renfe engineers, carried out a ‘Study on the sixth project of Ferrocarriles de Colombia’, a study of “To calculate demand international undertakings recommendations for the improvement of the Carare rail- for Ferrocarriles Nacionales Ineco’s desire to work internationally materialised in stud- way line. This project was financed by the International Bank ies and reports on rail and transport in Latin America, for Reconstruction and Development, after an agreement de Colombia, we purchased our fostering the training of its technicians in Spain. Inter- was reached by Roa after a trip to Washing- first IBM PC in 1985, and used it est in participating in the improvement of infrastructures Carlos Roa ton in March 1969, paid for by Iberia, then a to develop a railway operation abroad also took Roa and the Renfe team to Africa, where, shareholder of Ineco. In 1981, Ineco submitted in 1975, a feasibility study was carried out in Zaire (now the promoted a ‘Feasibility and execution study for a pub- model which we called the Rail Democratic Republic of the Congo) for the Kindu-Kisangani the export lic transport system in Bogotá’ to the Bogotá Traffic Model” railway line. metro –the first international project carried In the 1970s, Ineco began collaborating with institu- of Spanish out with its own resources, in conjunction Juan Canteli, civil engineer tions in Bolivia, where a comprehensive transport study experience and with the French company Sofretu (now Sys- was conducted between 1979 and 1980, and in Argentina, tra) and the Colombian company Consultoría Venezuela, Honduras, Chile and Colombia with several dif- technology and y Sistemas– commissioned by the Mayor of ferent studies and projects to improve transport, working his multi-modal Bogotá. Detailed feasibility and pre-design together with Renfe and ALAF. As ALAF’s general adviser, studies were carried out for the Colombian Ineco acted as a consultant for the International Bank for transport capital’s metro and its workshops area, with Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), which opened a proposal for a priority line of 21.2 kilometres the doors for the company to participate in and win public vision in length with 23 stations, 35% on the surface contract tenders in the first projects in Colombia and Brazil. and the remainder underground. It was precisely in Brazil that the first international public Ineco’s presence in Colombia resulted in Ferrocarriles project tender, ‘Operations, marketing and IT for Ferrovías Nacionales de Colombia (FNC) awarding the contract for Paulistas del Estado de São Paulo (FEPASA)’, put out by the a feasibility study for a railway upgrade plan to an Ineco- World Bank in 1976, was won and carried out between 1980- Consultécnicos consortium in 1985. The total budget of 1981. Ineco, with staff assigned from Renfe, was awarded this the project was 360 million pesetas, financed through the study of railway operations, which involved the company’s World Bank. Isabel Lacambra, a civil engineer at Ineco since entry into the country, where it would eventually, in the year 1987, joined this project: “I was assigned to Ineco from Fer- 2000, establish its subsidiary Ineco do Brasil. A number of years rocarriles Nacionales de Colombia in 1987 to participate later, in 1987, a precursor study for a high-speed line between in the viability study and also to work on a study for the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo would be carried out (Trens rápidos Buenaventura-Bogotá Corridor. I worked on both projects de passageiros de longo percurso Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo). until 1989 and it was there that I met Juan Torrejón, José One of the first studies carried out in Argentina was Eladio Seco, Antonio Debesa and Juan Canteli, all of them a profitability analysis of the implementation of a CTC Ineco expatriates, the first two with their families”. EXPATRIATE EMPLOYEES system for Ferrocarriles Argentinos in 1978. In 1987, an The Buenaventura-Bogotá Corridor feasibility study In the image, from left to right, Juan investigation into the Latin American rail transport market, included an analysis of the construction of a new section Bogotá metro Torrejón, Ineco expatriate engineer focusing on the Southern Cone, Brazil and the Andean Al- to connect the Atlantic Network with the Pacific Network Francisco Fernández, ‘Franchis’, in Colombia with his children, Jaime tiplano, was carried out. Later, together with Ferrocarriles and provided a direct outlet from Bogota to the Port of Bue- submitted a study for the Bogotá metro Morro from Ineco, Vicente Moreno in October 1981, after carrying out a from Renfe and Antonio Debesa, also Argentinos and Renfe, a feasibility study was carried out naventura on the Pacific Ocean. Ineco assigned a total of 260 supplementary study on the metro an Ineco expatriate employee. in 1989 for the joint operation of interurban corridors, and, man-months to this contract over the course of four years. - network for Ineco in 1977. 14 — itransporte itransporte — 15 neco strengthened its engineering and projects area, and applied the latest cutting-edge methodologies and simulation models to transport planning. For Guillermo Vázquez, a civil engineer who joined Ineco in 1972 I and continued to be associated with the company for many years, “transport economics studies, in which Ineco 50 was a pioneer, were decisive in the evolution of Spanish infrastructure. They were necessary for all decisions on transport investment to be accompanied by consideration of their economic consequences”. Emilio Miralles, a civil engineer and external adviser at Ineco since 2008, points out that during these years “the Madrid Regional Transport Consortium was the first of its kind in Spain and served as a model for those that A GIANT LEAP FORWARD would come later. Professionals from Ineco participated in its creation in 1985-86, contributing experience that we later applied to studies such as the regulation of a new railway operation model in Brazil and the Oman Public Transport Master Plan”.

Above: Enrique López del Hierro with Tifsa: the technological Francisco López at Tifsa’s offices at No. 1 Calle Capitán Haya in 1983-1992 development of railways 1999. Centre and from The creation of the 100%-Renfe-owned Tifsa on 30 No- left to right: Fernando Tifsa was founded in 1983; Renfe acquired Ineco and vember 1983 heralded the beginning of specialisation in Vegas, José Antonio Álvarez, Carlos Loma transferred its projects team in 1984; Spain joined the research and technological innovation in relation to track, and José Costales rolling stock, safety facilities, signalling and railway traf- (1984). Below: Mario EEC in 1986; and, in the same year, the NAFA project, fic control systems, an area in which the company has Jara in 2000. the future Madrid-Seville high-speed line (1992), began. stayed on the cutting edge –since 2010 as part of Ineco–. Tifsa’s –and later Ineco’s– contribution was epitomised by Leendert de Haan, its work on ERTMS validation and verification. wearing a harness, inspecting the roof of the . Engineers not afraid of heights The renewal of national gauge throughout the railway net- work marked the beginning of Tifsa’s inspection and load- testing work on numerous bridges and viaducts. Carlos Loma, a technical expert on special projects employed at Ineco since 1984, recalls: “When I started at Tifsa in 1984, one of the requirements was not to be afraid of heights. We worked for Renfe on numerous sounding campaigns for metal bridges, some over 100 metres high. A year later, inspection work began on concrete and masonry railway bridges and load testing on the line from Tarragona to Barcelona and France”. “Ineco has inspected more railway Since 1992, bridge and viaduct inspections have been part of the company’s usual work. Some of the more no- bridges in Spain than anyone else, table work on high-speed lines included the monitoring far more than 10,000. It has unique work on the Arroyo del Valle and Arroyo de las Piedras specialisation in the load testing viaducts (2006-2010), and the load testing carried out on the Contreras (2010) and Ulla viaducts (2015) and, more of metal bridges” recently, on the entire Chamartín-Torrejón de Velasco sec- Leendert de Haan, civil engineer the 1980s tion (Madrid, 2017). Tifsa, Renfe, NAFA, ... the Mediterranean Corridor and joining the EEC

16 — itransporte itransporte — 17 roofs In recent years, Ineco has ... increased its MADRID- roof-inspection From all of this experience, Leendert de Haan, a civil a dream come true. We had fulfilled our part of the chal- BRAZATORTAS work at stations engineer who joined Ineco in 1998, notes that: “The lenge and there we were travelling the distance between MAP such as Zaragoza- The NAFA project Delicias (in the company has inspected more railway bridges in Spain Madrid and Seville on an infrastructure that we knew reduced the image), Atocha, than anyone else, far more than 10,000. It has unique down to the smallest detail. We monitored the speed alignment by 100 Chamartín and specialisation in load testing of metal bridges. In 2005, by counting the number of overhead line poles that we kilometres by Toledo; airport several load tests were performed on special viaducts passed every minute, and the camber of the curves by passing through terminals such as Brazatortas instead Bilbao and Ibiza; at 360 kilometres per hour on the Madrid-Lleida AVE, a noting the angle of the surface of the water at the top of of Despeñaperros. and on other historic record in Spain. Another milestone was a study a glass on the table”. For the first time, 3D buildings. carried out in 2016 using 3D models to detect possible Making the high-speed network a reality created digital cartography flood risk areas along the 2,351 kilometres of high-speed or boosted new activities in the teams engaged in the was used in Spain. line in operation. The latest innovation that we’ve in- construction phase, such as works management and Below, staff at the Hornachuelos and troduced is the use of drones to carry out inspections in technical assistance of all kinds: track assembly in Mora work bases. places that are difficult or dangerous to access”. tunnels, stations, electrification, etc. The first track maintenance work was also started, a task that con- tinues to be carried out throughout the network: “On 21 April 1992, opening day, we began to work with From NAFA to the AVE Renfe on the maintenance of the Madrid-Seville high- speed line. There were about 20 of us, including people from the three work bases (Mora de Toledo, Calatrava

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struction projects on the first stretch of the Madrid- participated in the creation of a maintenance model, _ e Seville high-speed line, between Getafe and Córdoba, first for Renfe and later for Adif, a model that we are

a project that was called New Rail Access to currently using for all of the high-speed lines that we photos (NAFA, in Spanish). A team of young engineers from maintain for Adif as technical assistance”. the company tackled this challenge, which Above: Iván was managed by professionals from Renfe. Navamuel, For Juan Barrón, a civil engineer employed at Carlos Loma, In 1988, the Elena Jerez Ineco since 1985 and a former president of the modernisation and Elena GIF, “the transfer of the entire Renfe project Government “Our first technical assistance Agudo in 2011. team to Ineco was key because a significant decided to of the railway On the right, increase in engineering was added to the con- With Renfe as sole shareholder, a period of railway project was in 1989 on the works Pedro Benito, Víctor Duarte sulting work, in business volume, the most implement modernisation began, with the aim of increasing speed. for the Seville Expo” and Marisa de significant. It was a watershed moment”. New weldable points were installed and numerous la Hoz NAFA One of those young engineers was Marisa the NAFA track upgrade projects were drafted. The workforce José Mª Urgoiti, civil engineer engineers. de La Hoz, a public works engineer employed project on began to grow: from about 80 people (between Ineco at Ineco since 1986: “We could not have had and Tifsa) in 1983, the number would reach almost 300 better leaders than Jorge Nasarre and Santia- international in just 10 years. go Rallo, who, thanks to their knowledge and gauge: Ineco Jose Mª Urgoiti, a civil engineer at Ineco since 1987, vision of the future, enabled us to complete currently deputy general director of National Opera- all infrastructure and track projects within a adapted the tions, highlights the challenges of that time: “The first record time of nine months”. section in less steps in what was called ‘track quality’ were difficult The work included the design of the 320-kil- because we started with practically no experience, just ometre alignment and a study of passenger than a year with what our teacher Ulpiano Martínez Solares, who demand on the new line (commercially named came from Renfe, could show us. Our first technical AVE, ‘Alta Velocidad Española’). Juan Canteli, an assistance project was in 1989 on the works for the “We could not have had better engineer who worked at Ineco for 27 years, highlights Seville Expo”. leaders than Jorge Nasarre that “the study brought to light the existence of a sig- About the tools used in the 1980s, Rafael Herrera, nificant demand niche between Madrid and Ciudad Real, a public works engineer at Ineco since 1982 and, to- and Santiago Rallo, who, thanks which is why Renfe implemented regional high-speed day, deputy director of Operations Coordination, recalls services between Madrid, Ciudad Real and Puertollano”. that: “The tools were very limited: ball sticks to detect to their knowledge and vision Ineco opened its Seville Two years later, at a meeting of the Council of Ministers whether or not the track was well consolidated by the of the future, enabled us to office in 1988 as a result of in December 1988, the Spanish Government made the sound when the top of a sleeper was struck, rail curve its work on the AVE high- complete all projects within decision to implement NAFA in international gauge, in- measuring handles to determine correct alignment, speed line and Expo site, stead of Iberian gauge. Ineco adapted the Getafe-Córdoba width and camber rules and topographic levels to check providing quality control a record time of nine months” services for the works in section to the new in less than a year. Re- longitudinal levelling”, adding that “with the data from the five public pavilions and Marisa de la Hoz, public works engineer garding those days before the opening of the line in 1992, the rail-curve measuring handles, Ulpiano Martínez and works management of the Pedro Benito, a public works engineer at Ineco since 1986, Javier Gómez designed a alignment rectification calcula- car parks. A rail access line to the site was also designed recalls: “In one of the journeys prior to the opening, we tion program that became one of Ineco’s first technologi- and the company provided travelled together with members of the Government and cal developments. It was used for years, and ended up technical assistance representatives from the construction companies. It was being sold to Renfe, which called it RIPER”. at Santa Justa station.

18 — itransporte ... itransporte — 19 ... In the 2000s, this experience led to Ineco’s providing spain joins Adif with “technical support for the coordination of track Preliminary studies renewals and comprehensive station refurbishments, and Spain’s integration into the European Economic Com- 12 June 1985: the construction of new freight and port terminals”, says munity meant that Spanish legislation would need to be the then prime Miguel Solana, a railway expert and surveyor who has aligned with EEC standards, with new environmental and minister of Spain, Felipe been at Ineco since 1990. social perspectives being superimposed on the technical González, aspects. Francisco Cifuentes, a public works engineer, signed the manager of the Public Works, Renfe and Other National Treaty of the Mediterranean corridor account, employed at Ineco since 1988, comments: “Plan- Accession to the European The best example of increased traffic speed was the Medi- ning became a public process in which the developer Economic terranean Corridor. As explained by Manuel Corvo, a rail- enriched proposals with contributions from other public Community way maintenance expert employed at Ineco since 1990: authorities and citizens. Ineco participated in this new at the Royal Palace in “At the end of the 1980s, we began to work on a complex concept, which involved the introduction of preliminary Watercolour of a Madrid. Mediterranean infrastructure because freight, long-distance, regional studies and environmental impact studies”. Corridor and suburban trains travelled at different speeds and Starting in 1989, Ineco began to plan the high-speed substation. with intense traffic loads. Adapting conven- network commissioned by Renfe and the Ministry of Pub- tional mixed-traffic alignments was a mile- lic Works and Transport with its first preliminary stud- “Planning became a public stone and we managed to increase speeds Ineco has been ies: firstly, those for the Madrid-Zaragoza-Barcelona line, process in which the developer from 160 to 220 km/h”. responsible followed by those for other lines, such as new routes to “In 1995, the Ministry awarded Ineco a Burgos, Segovia, ; the (1996); Galicia enriched proposals with power reinforcement project for the Valen- for the (Peñota bypass) and Asturias (Pajares bypass); the Levante contributions from other public cia-Vandellós section, which included the maintenance line; Atlantic Corridor: Vigo-Porto; and many others en- authorities and citizens. Ineco refurbishment and modernisation of five compassing almost the entire network. traction substations, the construction of of the participated in this new concept, “The power reinforcement of the eight new ones and the construction of a Mediterranean which involved the introduction new 132/20 kV distribution substation and of preliminary studies and Valencia-Vandellós section was the first all of the power lines to the substations”, Corridor since Freight major power contract we had and it was explains Ernesto Labarta, an industrial en- Throughout the entire history of Ineco, considerable work environmental impact studies” gineer at Ineco since 1997, manager of the the mid-1990s has been done on freight transport, air cargo, rail access also orientated towards the high speed. Energy Supply, Electromechanics and Over- to ports and multimodal transport. The company has Francisco Cifuentes, public works engineer Since then, we have participated in the head Line area. “It was the first major power contract we produced numerous feasibility studies for new logistics dimension calculation and design of had and it was also orientated towards the implementa- areas for the transportation of freight on land, sea and tion of high speed. Since then, we have participated in in the air. In fact, the first job (see photo) –a report signed almost all of the electrification of the the dimension calculation and design of almost all of by Carlos Roa on a study conducted by a French firm Spanish high-speed network” the electrification of the Spanish high-speed network”. (Sofrerail)– concerned the transportation of phosphates in the Sahara (1968). In the 1970s, numerous reports on Ernesto Labarta, industrial engineer the transportation of hazardous goods were produced for Renfe. Joining the EEC: Since then, first for Renfe, Iberia and Transmediter- ránea, and then for other clients, shareholders and the a surge in planning government itself, as well as in Latin America, Ineco has Spain’s entry into the European Economic Community continued to carry out all kinds of studies concerning In the image, Javier García (EEC) in 1986 and the gradual incorporation of EEC legisla- the transportation of freight, especially on the railways de Muro, geological tion resulted in the need to plan actions and investments. –with the so-called ‘focal points studies’ and ‘axes’ of engineer, during Mediterranean Corridor Ineco worked with the Government to prepare plans to the 1980s and 90s– but also on roads and by sea, includ- improvement works. lay the foundations for the infrastructure networks –high ing comparative analyses between modes, and surveys speed, suburban, motorways, airports, etc.– which would relating to demand, products, train and train car capacity, be built or modernised in the following two decades. infrastructures (such as stations, sidings, tracks, etc.), Casimiro Iglesias, a civil engineer at Ineco since 2009, traffic flows, etc. Some recent examples include those of summarises what happened during this period: “In the the PLAZA platform and the Zaragoza terrestrial mari- middle of the 1980s, the transport system had major defi- time terminal, completed in 2002; the ZAL at the port CATALAN PYRENEES SKI RESORT ciencies in terms of capacity and quality, and this threat- of (2009); and the industrial park of Foronda PLANNING PLAN ened the county’s economic development. A number of airport in Vitoria (2010). The plan, carried out in 1982, was unique because it was one of the company’s first infrastructure plans were launched, such as the General There have also been a large number of feasibility land-planning plans. With 11 volumes, Roads Plan 1984-1991, the Rail Transport Plan 1987 and studies for new logistics areas for central and regional this thorough study analysed the the Large City Transport Improvement Plan 1990, all of government in Spain, and later for overseas governments situation of ski resorts in municipalities which started a process of modernisation of infrastruc- in countries such as Colombia (air cargo study for San- throughout this area. Above in the centre, Antonio Monfort, author of the tures that has radically changed Spain’s transport system. tiago Vila de Flandes airport, 2011), Kuwait (Shadadiya study, along with Jesús Rubio, also a civil Funds from the European Union were the fundamental industrial area, 2012) and Ecuador (ILCO area in Santo engineer. On the right, Carlos Roa’s report catalyst for this process”. Domingo de los Tsáchilas, 2017). on a phosphate transportation study in - the Sahara by Sofrerail (1968).

20 — itransporte itransporte — 21 t the beginning of the 1990s, Spain, by then a member of the EEC and in the process of consolidating its recent democracy, undertook a process to expand enes de Hoy

and renovate its airports, roads and railways. The r T A great events of 1992 –the commemoration of the fifth centennial of the discovery of America by Columbus, the 50 Universal Exposition of Seville and the Barcelona Summer

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drid also undertook large works projects in light of these u events: the refurbishment of Atocha station to receive high speed and the green corridor (‘Pasillo Verde’, 1989-1997), Ineco’s first comprehensive works management project. Vía Libre/ L Vía Libre/ _

Aena’s acquisition of a stake in Ineco gave the com- o t pany strength and substance: thus began the modernisa- pho tion Spain’s airports, which, at the time, were suffering major infrastructure Above left, Dulce from serious saturation problems. Aeronautical activities, Galán and Víctor in both airports and air navigation, began. Gándaras working on the Renfe inventory. On the right, surveyor Esteban Casares; technical works below, part of the team and a ‘Pasillo Verde’ excavation assistance notebook. 1993-1999 the ‘pasillo verde’ The aim of the works on the Madrid green corridor (‘Pasillo Aena’s acquisition of a stake in Ineco in 1993 marked Verde’) was to complete the first ring of the Madrid Cer- the beginning of a new business activity, airport canías network and develop and outfit the land between Príncipe Pío and Atocha stations for railway use. The work engineering, with the ‘Plan Barajas’ as a major included the drafting of projects, analysis and study of milestone and the first air navigation work. bids, and technical assistance for monitoring, manage- ment and works management. According to Roberto Salas, a public works engineer at Ineco since 1987, “with the ‘Pasillo Verde’, Madrid re- covered the southwest of the city. It was the first major urban planning project and also the first time a large

tunnel boring machine was used in Spain. This work was casares esteban _ o

followed by the Oviedo ‘Cinturón Verde’ (1993-1997) and t Bilbao Ría 2000, for which we were responsible for works o PH management and technical assistance on the southern bypass (1995-1999)”. For José Mª Urgoiti, a civil engineer at Ineco since 1987, the ‘Pasillo Verde’ was without a doubt: “An emblematic work that allowed us to create expert teams and opened the door to other major works. At that time, Renfe also Above, Roberto Salas commissioned us to carry out an inventory of all of its at Príncipe Pío. On property, a huge job”. Regarding this inventory, Dulce Ga- the right, works at the Alicante Airport lán, an engineer specialising in geomatics and topogra- where Ineco took phy at Ineco since 1987, adds: “Up to a thousand people on its first technical participated. We demonstrated that we had the technical assistance project and management capability to resolve any challenge”. at an airport. The first technical assistance on airport works also began. Víctor Pardo, an aeronautical engineer who has been with Ineco for 20 years, highlights that the first “The ‘Pasillo Verde’ was an the 1990s of them won in competition was “the refurbishment of Alicante airport (1994-1995). A year later, we went to El emblematic work that allowed us to Aena, the ‘pasillo verde’, Hierro airport (1996-1997) but the one I remember as the create expert teams and opened the most unique was Namibia (2002). We worked as part of a door to other major works” the ‘Plan Barajas’ consortium as managers of the project to modernize the and the beginning of air country’s airport facilities, including the project for the José Mª Urgoiti, deputy general director extension of the runway at the Walvis Bay airport and of National Operations navigation work management of the works”.

22 — itransporte ... itransporte — 23 1. Barcelona airport Aena, a new entity created in 1991 to manage airports intermodal building and air navigation in Spain, needed to deal with increasing air designed by Ineco. 2. Palma de traffic due to tourism at the beginning of the 1990s which Mallorca airport. 3. Seville Air Traffic caused saturation problems, especially in Madrid and Barcelona. Control Centre. 4. Tenerife North 02 terminal. BEGINNING OF THE EXPANSION 01 03 04

“In 1999, we undertook one of the most important projects in our history: two new runways at Alternative configuration of five runways of the new Campo Real Madrid-Barajas airport” airport included in the ENAM. AIRPORTS José Luis Pena, aeronautical engineer t the end of the decade, the ‘Plan Barajas’ and ‘Plan Rafael Torres, an aeronautical engineer and airports tical technical engineer at Ineco since 1998: “Ineco began to Barcelona’ were approved, works that would continue account manager at Ineco since 1999, summarises: “The participate in the drafting of master plans in 1997. The ap- throughout the first two decades of the century, as expansion of Barajas for Ineco, it not only meant a consoli- plication of this experience abroad with Aena International or would the expansion works on the airports of Palma dation of our knowledge of airport projects and works, but other companies has led us to planning airports in countries A de Mallorca, Valencia and Alicante (‘Plan Levante’), also an opportunity to develop new capabilities in relation such as Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Málaga (‘Plan Málaga’) and the rest of the network. to the integrated management of projects, operation, plan- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq , “Our first major project was the Tenerife North airport ning, commissioning and operational transition”. Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Mexico, terminal (1996) in collaboration with the Canary Island Jamaica, Morocco, Angola, Uganda and Kenya”. architecture firm N3. The second was the new Air Traffic Control Centre in Seville, together with the Seville archi- the ‘plan barcelona’ tects Cruz and Ortiz. And in 1999, we undertook one of the After expansions in 1968 and 1992, in 1999, the Barcelona- air navigation most important projects in our history: two new runways Above, an aerial view El Prat airport began its third major expansion that would In parallel with the growth of air traffic, the company’s ac- of Madrid-Barajas at Madrid-Barajas airport, whose numbers far exceeded any airport with the transform it into what it is today: the country’s second air- tivities in air navigation also increased. The first projects – other project carried out thus far”, explains José Luis Pena, two new runways port. “We mainly participated in airport construction”, says initially for Aena and now for ENAIRE– started around 1995. an aeronautical engineer at Ineco since 1996. designed by Ineco’s Gabriel Díaz-Roncero, an aeronautical engineer employed at Fernando Gómez Comendador, an aeronautical engineer airport Projects Ineco since 1997, “involving us in planning, design, construc- at Ineco between 1995 and 2012, recalls that: “At the end team and, on the right, the team in tion supervision and commissioning of the most significant of the 1990s, flight progress strips were the main source from fsam to THE ‘Plan Barajas’ the company’s Calle actions in T1 and T2”. of information. It was a manual job which started with a Air traffic in Barajas continued its unstoppable growth. Ac- Potosí offices literal copy of the information in the control tower early in in 2000. cording to the legislation, an in-depth study of alternatives the morning. The automation of operational information was required before any expansion could begin: this was the master plans, AN AIRPORT MILESTONE management processes contributed by Ineco represented FSAM (Future Madrid Airport System) that Ineco drafted for The start of Ineco’s support to assist Aena in preparing and a great breakthrough”. the DGAC between 1997 and 1999. This complex analysis, system (ABHS), a VIP lounge, rerouting and paving works on updating the Master Plans - implemented by law in 1996 - Although Ineco now develops its own methodologies and a milestone for both the company and the airport consul- a road (M-111) and new access roads. An enormous project marked another milestone for the company and for airport software, in the early years “runway occupancy times were tancy, resulted in the large-scale expansion covered in the about which José Luis Pardo de Santayana, an aeronautical plans in Spain. According to Miguel de Bernardo, an aeronau- taken with a stopwatch from the tower, we digitised the Master Plan approved in 1999 and prepared by Ineco. That engineer at Ineco since 1997, comments: “40 of us started terrain with a tablet from paper maps, and we didn’t have year the ‘Plan Barajas’ began, with Ineco providing technical and, by the end, 100 of us were working on the basic engi- simulators”, explains Mª Luisa Fernández, an aeronautical assistance for nine years, until 2006. At the same time, a neering and design of the airfield expansion. We considered “The studies carried out technical engineer at Ineco since 1995. study began to examine the viability of a second airport, to so many alternatives for the location of the terminals that for the Barajas expansion Since the end of the 1990s, Ineco has provided special- be located in Ciudad Real: the ENAM (Studies for the New our Aena colleagues told us that we should just put wheels ised engineering and technical consultancy projects in Airport of Madrid) project, an exhaustive technical, finan- on them”. For Javier de Cos, a civil engineer who spent 30 project brought together a great relation to ATM (air traffic management) and CNS (com- cial, and environmental study carried out in three phases years at Ineco between 1973 and 2013: “Our Madrid airport team of experts that brought us munications, navigation and surveillance) systems and has (2000-2005). In the meantime, the large-scale works began system (FSAM) studies for the Barajas airport Master Plan been involved in the modernisation of hundreds of facilities at Barajas that would continue until the middle of 2000: two and that of a new airport in Campo Real (ENAM) not only international recognition in the network. “Today, we are able to provide specifications, new runways, two towers, the terminals T4 and T4S, connec- enabled the expansion of Barajas and long-term planning, in consultancy” commissioning and radio simulation system services in ted by a driverless underground train (people mover), two but also created a large team of experts that made Ineco an any country of the world”, confirms Víctor Gordo, an airport Javier de Cos, civil engineer new aprons, six car parks, an automated baggage handling internationally recognised airport consultancy company”. engineer at Ineco since 1998. ... 24 — itransporte itransporte — 25 In the mid-1990s, Ineco expanded its road activities ject carried out by Ineco for the Regional Government of with its first works maintenance, monitoring Andalusia, which received an award from the International Road Federation for its respect for the environment. The and supervision projects, work that has provided work took place inside Alcornocales Natural Park, home the company with expertise in design, maintenance, to Europe’s largest cork oak forest”. accessibility studies and road safety. maintenance, access and reports During this decade, Ineco began its first works maintenance, monitoring and supervision for the Ministry, work that has led to the company gaining experience in various aspects such as incident management and coordination with the THE EXPANSION OF THE NETWORK IN SPAIN Civil Guard and Civil Protection, accessibility studies and road safety reports, winter viability, maintenance of energy supply facilities, lighting, ventilation and monitoring of tun- nels, variable signalling, traffic lights and communications. The company also worked with private companies on draft- ing projects for concessions, housing devel- adt

opments, due diligence on motorways for st From 1993 to u financial institutions such as AGF and Banco o ne 2008, the road Espíritu Santo, and technical assessments l pab

for disputes with teams of lawyers. _

network went o ROADS Ignacio Gálvez, a civil engineer employed t from 7,400 km at Ineco since 1995, talking about this period, pho n the 1970s and 80s, with the process of building the highlights that: “Throughout the second half national road network in full swing, feasibility studies of high-capacity of the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st were carried out on new roads and the location of bus roads to almost century, we participated in the complex stations, customs stations and other services. At the end 14,700 km of work of designing new access roads to the Iof the 1980s, traffic studies were carried out to assess Madrid-Barajas airport, including projects future exploitation or improve flows, such as those carried highways such as the renewal of the Eisenhower node out in the cities of Valladolid and Burgos, or to determine and all connections with the M-40, N-II, ac- the location of bus stations, such as those in Madrid and cess to exhibition sites, M-12 and tunnels. This experience Santander. The company also worked on numerous as- was applied in work on the access roads of other modernisa- phalting projects, new car parks, supplementary reports tion projects for airports in the Aena network”. on the removal of level crossings throughout the national The M-12 tunnel designed by Ineco won the award for network and projects for the building or widening of new best and safest tunnel in Europe in 2006, awarded by the road access routes across the network. prestigious EuroTAP (European Tunnels Assessment Pro- However, it was not until 1995 that a Roads department adt gramme). In 2006, the project for the 2nd stretch of the Ineco participated st was incorporated into Ineco’s Engineering division and this u Alcarria highway was drafted, and consulting and technical in the European road safety projects o ne

sector was strengthened to cover all modes. It was in this l assistance work was carried out for a preliminary study of RIPCORD-ISEREST same year that the company won its first public tender for the connection between the Trujillo-Cáceres highway (A-58) pab (2005-2007) and _

a Ministry road contract, namely a preliminary study for o and other works and preliminary studies for the Regional PILOT4SAFETY t the N-420 from Córdoba to Tarragona via Cuenca, specifi- Governments of Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid. (2010-2012). pho cally the section between Puertollano and Ciudad Real. In Above, road works in terms of technical assistance, the company’s first projects the Canary Islands. Engineer Elena Puente, a roads were sections of the A92 highway (1994); the bypass on On the left, noise more than 2,000 kilometres of highways arrangement designed expert, in 2000. the Puerto Lumbreras-Baza highway (1995-97); and main- The General Highway Plan (1984-1991) gave non-toll high- for the M-40 (Madrid). On the left, a map tenance and exploitation of the Mediterranean Highway Below, the company’s ways a strong push forward, transforming the roads, and of phases 1 and 2 (bypass on the Adra-Cuesta Colorá section) (1995-1999), roads office in Paseo drastically shortening travel times. It was initially decid- of Spain’s highway renewal plan. which was subsequently renewed for 15 years. de La Habana in 1999. ed to carry out widening works, and gradually to build The road network, which in Spain in 1993 consisted of new roads with characteristics comparable to non-toll just over 7,400 kilometres of high-capacity roads, was im- highways. proved and modernised, reaching almost 14,700 kilometres In 2007, Ineco began to participate in the First Genera- of highways in 2008. tion Highway Renewal Plan, work in which, as José Luis About this period, Miguel Vila, a civil engineer employed Mangas, a civil engineer at Ineco since 2007, explains, “we at Ineco since 1994, highlights that: “Respect for the envi- produced the Inspection Manual for concession contracts, “From the 1990s to the beginning of ronment has always been present in our work. By 1994, we carried out follow-up of preliminary projects, studied bids, the 21st century, we participated in the had already begun using plastic waste from greenhouses supervised more than 120 construction projects and moni- complex work of designing new access for bituminous mixtures on the surfacing work of the A92- tored the concession contracts that would extend until N highway, in which we were responsible for the technical 2026. The Plan involves the complete overhaul of 2,125 roads to Madrid-Barajas airport” assistance in conjunction with L.P. Murcia and Chirivel kilometres of highway in the most important corridors of Ignacio Gálvez, civil engineer (Almería). A few years later, I directed the works of a pro- Spain’s road network”. - 26 — itransporte itransporte — 27 uring these years, both state and regional Spanish governments had the same clear objective: the mod- ernisation of all transport infrastructures, both urban metro and commuter lines, and long-distance, with Dthe expansion of airports, ports and the high-speed network, which would reach Barcelona in 2008. The company worked on all of these projects from its

50 a headquarters at No. 138 Paseo de la Habana in Madrid, vil where it is still located today. a elvir _ s o underground t PHo High-speed tunnel challenge: tunnels between Atocha THE New millennium Spain’s rugged geography “has been a huge challenge for and Chamartín, the execution of high-speed lines, with the need to build Madrid, for which Ineco managed special, enormously complex infrastructure”, points out the works and Emilia Lastra, a civil engineer who has been with Ineco provided assistance since 2007. “Ineco has worked on the design of tunnels in soundings and and viaducts, the drafting of geological and hydrogeologi- geotechnics. Above: Emergency shaft. cal studies, the supervision of other companies’ projects Centre: Álvaro García and works management and technical assistance projects, Tapia and Juan experience acquired with Adif that has enabled us to take Martínez working on part in design and technical assistance work on road and signalling in 2017. Below: TBM receiving 2000-2007 rail tunnels in different countries”. shaft in Atocha, 2011. The first railway tunnel repair and refurbishment work Ineco grows in Spain and abroad, creating new areas dates back to the 1980s; since then, the company has par- such as geotechnics and environment, and works on ticipated in 150 projects on different conventional lines. In 2004, a specific geotechnics and tunnels area was created, commuter and metro lines, airports, ports and high and the first tunnel works management project was also speed, which reached Barcelona in 2008. carried out on an access route to the Seat spain’s rugged factory in Martorell. geography has Starting in 2004, the company began working with Adif on the design and con- required the struction management of high-speed tun- building of highly nel projects, some of the most important of which included major tunnels in Guadar- complex special rama (2002-2007), San Pedro (2003-2007), Pajares, Abdalajís and (2009-2011) infrastructure and those on the Ourense-Santiago (2004- 2011) corridor. Noelia Alonso, a civil engineer at Ineco since 2004, elaborates: “All of these required highly ex- acting studies, with extremely detailed surface geology and subsurface analysis, numerous surveys, geophysical prospecting work and modern structural analysis tech- niques, not to mention knowledge of conventional and TBM excavation”. The company also worked with Adif on the national gauge tunnel works, which included work on of FGV’s Valencia metro in Alboraya (2011). In terms of urban tunnels, notable projects included... the “The Guadarrama, Pajares, Abdalajís the early 2000s and Sorbas tunnels required highly t d tunnels, environment, demand exacting studies, detailed surveys, a eust

structural analysis and knowledge n studies, ports, airport o

of conventional and TBM excavation” bl expansion, metros, high speed, a o_ p

Noelia Alonso, civil engineer t stations, international PHo

28 — itransporte itransporte — 29 Environment “The importance of the FSAM was that, In 1999, the Ministry of the Environment gave its approval to the first airport-planning study that included environ- for the first time in Spain, an airport mental aspects: the FSAM (Future Madrid Airport System), planning study included environmental drafted by Ineco. The following year, a specific Environ- aspects of the entire process, and not ment department was created under the management of Sebastián Milanés, a civil engineer who worked at Ineco be- only of the final stage” tween 2000 and 2011, who points out that: “The importance Sebastián Milanés, civil engineer and uniqueness of the FSAM was that, for the first time in Spain, an airport planning study was go- Since 1999, ing to include all environmental aspects in On the left, excavations The Sants-Sagrera tunnel their entirety, in all stages of the process of in Barcelona was opened Ineco’s at the Lo Hueco in 2013. It was excavated developing and evaluating alternatives, and (Cuenca) archaeological without affecting environmental not just in the final stage”. site in 2007. Below, renewal of the Ronda- architectural gems like the t Ineco, which had already been providing d Algeciras line in a a activities have Sagrada Familia. Below, the technical assistance to Aena in the manage- Burata tunnel in Galicia. protected area (2010);

eust multiplied; the ment of the Office of the Barajas Acoustic Madrid-Barajas airport n

The Pajares tunnels, o Insulation Plan since 1997, extended its ac- noise footprint (2011);

bl and a hydrogeological the second longest in a challenge is tivities to include noise footprints and all Spain, consisting of a study on the Loja o_ p kinds of studies and acoustic analyses such total of 24.6 kilometres. t now climate bypass (2010). as: “Strategic noise maps and action plans, PHo change acoustic easements and high-speed acoustic protection studies on projects such as the Galician Atlantic ... Corridor, the AVE high-speed line to Murcia and the second works carried out in Gijón (2003-2007) and Pío XII, Ma- phase of HS2 in the United Kingdom”, explains Ruth Bal- drid (2004-2005). In 2011, the excavation of the Atocha- lesteros, a biologist who has worked at Ineco since 2004. Chamartín dedicated high-speed tunnel, directed by In parallel, Ineco has also drafted numerous environ- Ineco, concluded and, in 2013, the Sants-Sagrera tunnel mental impact studies and assessments for all kinds of was opened in Barcelona, with the company’s know-how transport infrastructure, expertise that has been exported in tunnel instrumentation playing a crucial role, because, abroad, as Ana Lorenzo, an Environmental Sciences grad- as Ramón Banegas, a civil engineer at Ineco since 2004, uate at Ineco since 2007, explains: “The environmental explains: “It passed through a densely populated urban assessment of the feasibility study for the Cairo-Luxor- area containing buildings such as the Sagrada Familia Hurghada high-speed line in Egypt; the Mumbai-Nagpur and Casa Milá, both UNESCO World Herit- section in India; and Lot 2 of phase 2B of the HS2 high- age Sites, without affecting any of them. In speed line in the United Kingdom”, and others such as addition to the treatment of the terrain in Ineco’s a study on the Bioceanic Corridor in Bolivia (2015), and a the surrounding area, an extremely thor- knowledge 2014 analysis of alternative propulsion systems for buses ough soundings campaign was conducted in São Paulo, Brazil. and numerous buildings were inspected of tunnel In 1999, environmental management and technical as- on both sides of the works”. sistance projects on all kinds of works also started: airports, At the same time, the company carried instrumentation railways, roads, etc., including management and protec- out innovation projects such as PROTAV was crucial tion of natural and archaeological heritage for important (2006-2007) and Monitoring (2017); work high-speed projects. Between 2015 and 2016, two urban was also done to optimise radio coverage to ENSURE waste management plans were carried out in Panama and inside and improve safety methodologies, that buildings Quito (Ecuador). which were later applied in projects such In terms of innovation, some of the more important as the Reforma tunnel in Mexico City. such as the projects included European projects such as OPTA-In in In terms of safety and maintenance, for Sagrada Familia the aviation field (2012-2014) in relation to continuous de- Daniel de la Hera, a civil engineer at Ineco scent approaches (CDA), and LIFE MINOx-STREET (2013- since 2003, the most interesting jobs were: were not 2018) to “study the real capacity of photocatalytic materials “The waterproofing of the Guadarrama to reduce NOx pollution in the urban environment”, as tunnels, the inspection and monitoring of affected explained by Belén Seisdedos, a civil engineer with Ineco pathology evolution in the Regajal tunnel, since 2002. the pathology and thermography studies in the San Pedro In relation to climate change, Ineco, which in 2016 carried tunnels, the study of structure gauges and thermography out a research project and institutional campaign entitled in the Lilla tunnel and the inspection of several tunnels ‘A million for climate’, on the occasion of the Paris Summit, in Girona”. Carmen Vecino, a civil engineer at Ineco since has drawn up “the ‘Transport and Infrastructure Sustain- Train testing in the Guadarrama tunnel in June 2007 2009, adds that: “Actively participating in the drafting of ability and Climate Change Plan’ to enable companies in the (above). Below, excavation of the Abdalajís tunnels (Córboba-Málaga HSL) with TBMs (2006). Spanish and European railway gauge regulations has given Public Works Group to contribute to reducing their impact on us national and international recognition as a leading com- climate change”, says Virginia Fuentes, a forestry engineer pany in this area”. who has worked at Ineco since 2006.

30 — itransporte ... itransporte — 31 ... “Important airport expansions Studying demand included Burgos, Huesca Since its inception and using its own resources, Ineco has and, above all, Málaga, where, carried out numerous demand studies, with activities rang- ing from designing and conducting surveys to data process- from 2004, we ran the ‘Plan ing and producing final reports. José Luis Gion, who worked Malaga’ Office for Aena and t

at Ineco for 40 years between 1975 and 2015, highlights d a drafted the main project for projects such as: “Canvassing of Cercanías passengers for

eust the second runway”

Renfe which began in 1990, first in Madrid, then in the n rest of the country, and continues today with the same o bl José Ángel Higueras, aeronautical engineer methodology”, and, outside Spain, “the demand study car- a

Ineco supervised the integration of architecture and o_ p ried out in 2008 in Morocco for the Transport and Traffic t engineering into the works of Barcelona T1 (2009). o

Master Plan in the Rabat-Salé-Témara metropolitan area, ph which was one of the most complex; we completed 6,200 household surveys in French and Moroccan Arabic with a hundred canvassers, and collected travel information on AIRPORA T EXP NSION 30,000 people”. In terms of large general- As a result of the process to expand and improve the Aena purpose surveys, those that stood out important network, in which Ineco began to participate from 1995- were household surveys on mobility in 96, by 2010 the Aena network had grown from 38 to 46 Above, Ineco Madrid, which was commissioned by the demand studies airports, after the building of six new ones –, survey interviewers Regional Transport Consortium in 1987, León, Logroño, Albacete, Burgos and Huesca-Pirineos– plus in Costa Rica. included On the right, a and in Valencia, the Balearic Islands and two heliports: and Algeciras (opened in 2004 and in questionnaire for Galicia. Also notable in Madrid were Cercanías 2010), in which Ineco also participated. a study on the studies on the use of travel cards and surveys and Throughout the first decade of the new millennium, In- Transport and the classification of Cercanías demand eco continued working on the expansion of Barcelona-El Traffic Master Plan in the Rabat-Salé- for the Transport Consortium between the Rabat-Salé- Prat airport. 2004 saw the opening of a third runway; 2007, a Témara metropolitan 1993 and 2006. new tower; and, 2009, the T1 terminal, designed by Ricardo area (2008), for Regarding air travel, the EMMA air- Témara Master Bofill. Ineco supervised the integration of architecture and which 6,200 port mobility surveys (1998-2015) were engineering and collaborated with the Transfer Office. Sub- household surveys Plan (Morocco) were filled out. noteworthy, as were those conducted sequently, T2 was also redesigned. Ineco also drafted projects to measure perceived quality levels (AEQual), which were for a new platform control tower, common commercial areas conducted annually between 2002 and 2011, both com- and a new underground Cercanías station under the airfield. missioned by Aena. Another notable project was a study In Málaga, a new terminal, T3 (opened in 2010), was built, of quality on interurban road transport that was carried along with a second runway, the project for which, among Operational transfer (ORAT) in Málaga: tests with role players in out every two years between 2000 and 2008. other functions, was drafted by Ineco, 2010, shortly before the opening of the new terminal (above). the Aena network which also provided the environmental management of the works and the op- Below: the first transfer team of T4 at Barajas, in May 2002. went from 38 to Including engineer Ana Belén Cantos, director of Communication, erational transfer. José Ángel Higueras, ports: the port of Valencia Services, and Strategy, Rafael Molina, and general director of Throughout its history, Ineco’s principal port projects have 46 airports, and an airport engineer who has been at Development and Sustainability, Ignacio Fernández-Cuenca. been related to railway access routes and the improvement expansion projects Ineco since 2000, highlights the expan- of their networks, consultancy studies on freight transport, sion works on the airfields of the air- railway logistical areas, dry ports, etc. continued in ports in “Burgos, Huesca and above all, Some of the more important purely maritime projects Málaga, where we began to collaborate were the nearly 80 projects carried out for Valenciaport, Madrid, Barcelona, with Aena in 2001, in order to run the which manages the ports of Valencia, Sagunto and Gandía. Málaga and Palma ‘Plan Málaga’ Office (2004-2013), which Pilar Valiente, a public works technical engineer who joined supervised and coordinated the execu- The Ineco team José B. Zarzuelo, Jorge Cruz, Mª Jesús Gimeno, Ineco in 1994, explains that the company began by working de Mallorca tion of all of the works and drafted the Pilar Valiente and Roberto Vílchez in the port of Valencia. on the port’s southern railway access routes, after which, main project for the second runway”. “we continued with the rail access route to the eastern Other airports, such as Zaragoza and Vitoria for cargo “Of the more than 80 jobs carried out for breakwater and its railway yard, the regulation of the spe- and Reus, Girona, A Coruña and Menorca for low-cost air- Valenciaport, some of the most notable cial intersections of the railway network with the road net- lines, were also expanded. In terms of airport construc- work and the extension of the railway yard of the eastern tion, some of the most notable projects were León’s new were technical assistance on the works breakwater”. She adds that the most important truly port terminal and the expansions of Valencia, Ibiza and Palma of the connection between transversals related works were the “connection between transversals de Mallorca. Other significant work during these years in- for intra-port traffic and the replacement of the berthing cluded the design of commercial spaces at airports such for intra-port traffic, the replacement line, which included a tunnel and 550 metres of new roads, as Barajas, El Prat, Alicante, Valencia and Mallorca. of the berthing line and the extension many of which were built six metres below sea level in Since 2009, Ineco has been supporting the State Air of the eastern breakwater” an area enclosed by 30-metre-deep screen walls; and the Safety Agency (AESA) in the authorisation, inspection, and two phases of extension of the eastern breakwater, which certification of airports for public use under private man- Pilar Valiente, public works technical engineer represented 55,000 m² of land reclaimed from the sea and agement. In 2014, AESA authorised the company to perform 575 metres of berthing line”. aeronautical inspections.

32 — itransporte ... itransporte — 33 In large cities, urban and interurban transport networks technical assistance for . For the , were expanded. Ineco was involved in the design and since 2009, the company has been responsible for inde- pendent technical audit consulting for financial entities construction of metros and light railways in Spain, such as in the Line 9 concession, about which David Maté, a civil those in Madrid, Bilbao and Seville, and systems in engineer at Ineco since 2003, comments that “this was the Alicante and Tenerife, and abroad, in Belgrade and Algiers. beginning of this type of consulting, for which we now have a technical, legal and financial team that specialises in public procurement, business plans and public-private partnerships”. metros and tram systems abroad Outside Spain, Ineco’s metro experience was applied for Works on the Mar Urban rail transport the first time in 2006 in conjunction with Alsthom on de Cristal-Campo

the Algiers tram system, for which Ineco designed the de las Naciones stretch of the alignment, substations and maintenance depot; and pro- (1994-1998). vided project coordination with the works. Juan Antonio Martínez Barcala, a public works engineer at Ineco since 2004, recalls that: “The Algiers tram system had been paralysed since the 1970s. As it was a troubled period and there were many attacks, for the eight months that we were there, we ate every meal at the hotel. One night, we Metros met Buteflika, the president of the country, who, when he heard us speaking in Spanish, came to our table and ne of its first projects was a supplementary study of thanked us for participating in the civil works for the the Bilbao metro network (1977) for the Ministry of tram system. The work went well and three years later Transport. Francisco ‘Franchis’ Fernández Lafuente, it was opened”. a civil engineer who worked at Ineco from 1973 to Other notable works during this period included the O1983, remembers that: “This study opened the door feasibility study, design and project coordination of the to allows us to create a similar one for the Bogotá metro, first light railway in Belgrade (Serbia) between 2004 and Above, the . Below, Ineco’s which I presented in October 1981 with Antonio Debesa 2007; and in 2008, in Italy, the company, as part of a con- Araceli Loscertales in 2011 with one of to the mayor at the time, Hernando Durán. 25 years later, sortium, was involved in a layout project for the first met- the new trains for the Medellín metro. Ineco drafted the construction project for the Casco Viejo- ro line in Bologna, renewal of the Milan-Limbiate tram section of Line 1, based on the initial concept”. line and expansion of a depot (workshops and sheds) in In terms of technical assistance on metro works, one Gallaratese (Milan). of the first was a branch of Line 8 of the Madrid metro on er In the following decade, work would include technical nn the Mar de Cristal-Campo de las Naciones stretch (1994- assistance on the works for of the Bombay metro in 1998). Later, the company supervised the works to extend India; a modernisation project for the Tallinn tram network o_ b. ru t

the line to Barajas airport’s T4. In 2001, work was carried o (Estonia), both in 2011, and another similar one in Pavlodar,

out on the Cuatro Vientos depot on Line 10. ph Kazakhstan (2015). More recently, the company has worked Among the most significant projects were works on Map of the supplementary study of the Bilbao metro (1977), which opened on Mexico City’s suburban network and, since 2016, on the door to the Bogotá metro project, presented in 1981. Line 11 of the Madrid metro between 2003 and 2007, about Line 12 of the city’s metro. Ineco is currently conducting which Francisco Gimeno, a civil engineer at Ineco since an independent safety assessment (ISA) on Lines 1 and 2001, comments that: “It was certainly the most complex Region of Madrid, which we started to draft in 2004. The 2 of the Panama metro. Since the early 2000s, Ineco has metro work that we had undertaken. 2.7 kilometres of tun- final alignment, 8.6 kilometres long with 14 stops, two of supervised the manufacture and commissioning of new nel and three new stations were built under Carabanchel which were underground, was the result of an intensive trains for the metros systems of São Paulo (Brazil) and Alto. I remember that the TBM had to pass through an area design process. After the start of the works, different cir- Medellín (Colombia), and the modernisation of existing Ineco has worked on below agricultural land, where there were various shafts. cumstances forced us to rethink the project on the fly, metros in cities such as Santiago de Chile. metro and tram systems throughout Spain, One of these shafts was located in a convent, and the nuns which we integrated into the design in record time”. ... including the system in got quite a scare when a large amount of foam from the Seville (above right). additives used to treat the excavated earth began to come out of one of them”. Tenerife metro “Line 11 of the Madrid metro was certainly Between 2003 and 2007, the company was involved in In June 2007, Line 1 of the Tenerife metro, in which Ineco the most complex work of its kind that we had various metro and tram projects in Spain, such as those participated as a shareholder, was opened, and accord- in Palma de Mallorca, , A Coruña, Vélez ing to José Manuel Alonso, a civil engineer at Ineco since undertaken. 2.7 kilometres of tunnel and 3 Málaga, Murcia (metro-train), Alboraya (train line covering 1995, it represented: “A milestone in terms of the degree new stations were built. In a convent, the nuns got works), Valencia and Alicante. of participation in its construction. In addition to being a In Madrid, work included studies for a light railway in shareholder, we provided comprehensive technical assis- quite a scare when foam from the additives used Valdemoro, and the project and technical assistance on a tance from civil works to workshops, systems and rolling to treat the excavated earth started coming light railway from Colonia Jardín to Pozuelo de Alarcón, stock for approximately 15 years”. out of one of the closed shafts” about which Carlos Cubillo, a civil engineer at Ineco since In 2008, the construction project for Line 3 of the Seville 1999, comments that: “It was cutting-edge work in the metro was drafted, following Ineco’s earlier work providing Francisco Gimeno, civil engineer Belgrade’s ight railway first line (2004-2007).

34 — itransporte itransporte — 35 After the opening of the AVE high-speed line to Seville in 1992, it would take 11 years for the Madrid-Lleida section to be opened in 2003. During this decade, Spanish high speed, which reached Toledo, Córdoba, Málaga, Valladolid and, finally, Barcelona, in 2008, with

the intensive participation of Ineco and Tifsa, was technically defined. From left to right, variable gauge changeover installation; Ineco has designed a large number of these and is responsible for the maintenance of 16 throughout Spain. Víctor Duarte, a civil engineer, in 2003 on the works of the The network expands Córdoba-Málaga line. “We used the Madrid-Lleida section as a laboratory; all kinds of tests had to be carried out on the overhead line: on junctions, sectioning, etc. On paper, everything added up. Everything had to be tested and adjusted, like an enormous prototype” high speed Javier Guerrero, industrial technical engineer

etween 1988 and 1990, Ineco be- team carried out a load test on a viaduct also reached Toledo in 2005, Córdoba, the Iberian (1,668 mm), on the con- gan to draft preliminary stud- for the first time, located in Vinaixa, at Antequera and Málaga in 2006-2007 and ventional network, and the standard ies for the Madrid-Barcelona the unusual speed of 360 km/h. “The GIF Segovia-Valladolid in 2007. (1,435 mm), on the high-speed line. To line and the first superstructure commissioned us to draft the techni- Ineco carried out all kinds of work on do this, two unique technological solu- Bconstruction projects began to cal specifications for the electrification all of these sections, from preliminary tions were deployed: the three-rail track appear in 1998. In that year, the GIF and later, to undertake the construction projects to environmental and construc- (or multi-track gauge) and the variable (Gestor de Infrastructura Ferroviaria, or management of Madrid-Lleida”, says tion management, technical assistance, gauge changeover installations. Este- Railway Infrastructure Manager) com- Javier Guerrero, an industrial technical and since 1992, it was also responsible ban Rubio, a public works engineer at missioned Tifsa to carry out the tech- engineer at Ineco since 1986, “we used for the maintenance of the entire net- Ineco from 1984 to 2012, summarises: nological definition of the elements of the section as a laboratory; all kinds of work. In addition, as Pedro Asegurado, “In total, we designed more than 50 the superstructure, a contract tests had to be carried out on a railway specialist, points variable gauge changeover that, according to the director The GIF the overhead line: on junctions, out: “Ineco’s Traffic team had Ineco-Tifsa installations. The first one was of Railway Operations Moisés sectioning, etc. On paper, every- been carrying out high-speed tested on an abandoned line Gilaberte, a civil engineer at commissioned thing added up. Everything had train tests on all lines in Spain worked on between Olmedo and Medina, Ineco Tifsa since 1988, repre- Tifsa to define to be tested and adjusted, like since 2006”, the year in which the new ERTMS followed by Lleida and many sented: “In terms of volume an enormous prototype”. the company drafted its first more. At first, we installed and importance, a milestone of the technology In 2001, it was decided, for electrical dimensioning con- system, which two platforms horizontally, special significance. Character- for high speed, the first time in Spain, to award struction project, for the Vald- was implemented then vertically and finally, the istics and specifications were a concession contract for the estillas-Valladolid section, dual system”. Today, Ineco has designed and defined, and the which is still construction and operation which was followed by many for the first time a team of 40 people responsi- regulations that still apply to- in place today of a high-speed section, the others on all lines, both civil ble for the maintenance of 16 day were drafted. Since then, Figueras-Perpignan line, which works and facilities. on the Madrid- of these installations. In this the company has provided support to would provide a connection with the Since 2000, Ineco-Tifsa has Lleida section same test section, Ineco car- the Government in terms of monitor- French border and open in 2010. For In- also participated in the devel- ried out the trials and tech- ing manufacturing, logistics and qual- eco, it represented “our first experience opment of technological solutions and nical definition of the three-rail track, ity control of all materials installed on in an international high-speed consor- the systems and equipment that a new which has been installed in the Mediter- high-speed lines, making us a European tium”, as explained by Fernando Por- railway system as demanding as high ranean Corridor and the high-speed line benchmark in track technology”. tillo, a civil engineer at Ineco since 1999. speed would require: among them, the to Castellón, opened in 2018. In 1999, technical assistance con- “We participated in the tender with the ERTMS, which was installed for the first As one of the significant milestones tracts began for track assembly, traffic, GIF, the Spanish railway infrastructure time on the Madrid-Lleida section; the in this period, Juan Batanero, a civil en- materials supply, track devices, etc., manager, its French counterpart RFF implementation of real-time remote gineer at Ineco (Tifsa) between 1984 and between Zaragoza, Huesca and Lleida, and the French consultancy SETEC, in control with the Da Vinci platform, de- 2013, highlights that: “In February 2004, Above, the Madrid-Lleida line: where electrification works manage- the Ferromed consortium. In the end, installation of overhead lines (left) veloped by Indra for Adif; and all new Tifsa was the first Spanish engineering ment also started. That same year, In- the concession was awarded to another and the arrival of the first high- track and train protection systems, etc. company to obtain ENAC (the national eco carried out its first environmental consortium, TP Ferro”. In 2003, the Ma- speed transformer at Peñalba In addition to the new develop- certifying entity) accreditation to in- station in 2001 (right). Below, construction management on this sec- drid-Lleida section opened and in 2008 ments, there was also the challenge of spect railway rolling stock, work that works on the Madrid-Valladolid tion. In 2005, the structure inspection high speed reached Barcelona; it had line in 2007 (left) and Ineco’s making two track gauges compatible: began on the Madrid-Seville line”. Traffic team in 2017 (right). ... 36 — itransporte itransporte — 37 Throughout this first decade of the new millennium, Ineco worked on numerous station projects of all kinds, including collaborations with renowned Spanish and foreign architects. The commuter rail networks of large cities were transformed and stations and workshops were adapted to the growing high-speed network.

Railway construction

The landscaped roof of the new Logroño station (2009), in collaboration with architect Iñaki Ábalos. On the right, The stations Atocha station.

he major redesign of the Atocha railway complex be- and involved the drafting of several projects in a joint venture tween 1985 and 1992 converted it from a rail stop into with Sener and the architect Iñaki Ábalos. It was a case in Spain’s largest Cercanías station, and, as Francisco which engineering and architecture were brought together, an Fraile, an industrial engineer at Ineco between 1984 and experience that Ineco also had with Rafael Moneo at Atocha”. T 2015, recounts: “It was one of Ineco’s most important The construction of the Madrid-Barcelona line required projects. We were responsible for all of the electrification, the adaptation of the stations at both ends. Although Atocha working shoulder to shoulder with the designers of the sta- was chosen in the end, it was initially thought that Chamartín tion, the Rafael Moneo team”. would be the terminal, as Enrique López del Hierro, an in- Beginning in 2000, Renfe and Adif implemented several dustrial engineer, recalls: “In 2002, Renfe Estaciones com- modernisation and improvement plans in stations through- missioned Tifsa to undertake the basic project to adapt The redesign of Sants station in Barcelona (2009) took three years and out Spain, and Ineco played an important role. Out of all of Chamartín station to high speed, a job that we carried out included doubling the size of the concourse and building seven platforms these plans, Marisa Guillamot, an architect at Ineco since 1992, with the architects Lamela, Luis Vidal and Juan Antonio Rid- with fourteen tracks - six high-speed and eight conventional. highlights, among others: “Llamaquique Cercanías station in ruejo, and which was the first high-speed integration study”. Asturias; Miribilla in Bilbao, built 50 metres deep; and Málaga At the other end of the line, “work at Sants station in Bar- airport and Alboraya, both of which are also underground. In celona was carried out without affecting the hotel above it”, “A new passenger terminal and a pedestrian footbridge to total, more than 160 projects and works for Adif and Renfe”. explains the project’s head of technical assistance, Michael connect two neighbourhoods that are currently separated, a As for modular stations in Madrid, particularly notable were Ashiabor, a public works engineer at Ineco since 1991. “It new road and a roof slab to cover the tracks”. Las Zorreras, Las Margaritas-Universidad and the Soto del involved adapting the station to high speed and, at the same Henares stop, which won an award for ‘Best Municipal Public time, providing it with intermodal characteristics, such as

Works.’ In terms of technical assistance, the new Sagrera- t connection to the Barcelona metro and the bus station, in d maintenance workshops Meridiana Cercanías station in Barcelona (2010) stands out. a addition to making it a business, shopping and leisure centre”. In addition to stations, railway operations also require main-

Important projects abroad included the feasibility studies eust Atocha station, the largest in Spain, was redesigned again tenance workshops. Ineco has participated in workshop n

for metro stations in Belgrade and suburban stations in São o in 2009 to receive the new Valencia high-speed line. Ineco design, works management and technical assistance for high- bl Paolo, and the modular designs for Bogotá’s Western Corridor. a undertook the engineering work in collaboration with Rafael speed trains abroad (Algiers, Milan, Mecca, Medina) and in o_ p

t Moneo’s architecture studio. Alfonso González, an architect Spain: Malaga-Los Prados, Barcelona-Can Tunis, and Anteq-

PHo at Ineco since 1998, points out that: “The new Atocha railway uera (Granada); and in Madrid, Cerro Negro, Santa Catalina high-speed stations Among the maintenance workshops, Valladolid stands out (above). complex was built in a well-established area of Madrid. The and Fuencarral, “which will soon be expanded, also with the The company boasts a long list of projects ranging from con- In 2009, Ineco collaborated with architect Rafael Moneo on the refurbishment final layout was more than one kilometre long and 400 metres involvement of Ineco,’ explains Vicente Ortis, a civil engineer of Atocha station (below) to receive the Valencia high-speed line. struction management to the drafting of architectural pro- wide, featured numerous entry points from city to railway, at Ineco since 2004, who adds that ‘participation in its con- jects: Puente Genil and Antequera-Santa Ana (2007); Camp and provided convenient access to the high-speed network”. struction has been the biggest challenge and the greatest de Tarragona (2006); and Vigo-Guixar on the Galician Atlantic “Particularly notable were the Cercanías Ineco is currently working on two stations that are preparing satisfaction of my professional career”. Particularly notable Axis. Ineco has managed numerous works throughout the stations in Llamaquique, Miribilla, Málaga for the arrival of high speed: in Bilbao and Ourense’s was the large Valladolid workshop, about which Javier García network to adapt stations to high speed. new intermodal station, which was designed by Norman Martín, a civil engineer at Ineco since 2002, highlights that: Gregorio Navarro, a public works engineer who has been airport and Alboraya. In total, more than Foster’s architecture studio and local architect Juan Carlos “The challenge was multiplied by the need to meet high per- at Ineco since 1988, also highlights the major railway line tun- 160 projects and works for Adif and Renfe” Cabanelas. The co-authors of the project, civil engineer Tomás formance requirements, from simple inspection and cleaning nel works that were executed in Logroño (2006-2009), which Mañas (at Ineco since 1998) and architect Roberto Marchán (at to secondary maintenance, which involved disassembling Marisa Guillamot, architect represented “a profound transformation of the environment, Ineco since 2011), explain that the planned actions include: and reassembling old vehicles piece by piece”. ... 38 — itransporte itransporte — 39 Since 2000, Ineco has maintained its presence in Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia, and has started operations in new countries such as Kuwait and Mexico. It also works in Europe and Africa, where airport works started in Cape Verde and continue to this day.

Above: Buenavista- Cuautitlán commuter Entry into Mexico and KUWAIT line (Mexico) and the engineers J. L. Pena and A. Higueras at a ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the new Boa Vista terminal (Cape Verde). Left: first job in international Kuwait (2006).

lanning experience translated into projects abroad, rocarriles del Norte de Colombia (FENOCO) with operational “The great experience we acquired in national plans in Spain, “such as the two railway plans that we designed for assistance for its freight transport. In 1999, it produced a such as PEIT and PITVI, singles us out as experts in this field” Kuwait in 2006 and the national plans for Algeria in suburban train feasibility study for La Sabana de Bogotá and 2009 and Costa Rica and Ecuador in 2012”, highlights a master plan for Ernesto Cortissoz airport in Barranquilla. José María Llorente, civil engineer PJosé María Llorente, a civil engineer and deputy direc- In Mexico, 2006 marked a milestone with the opening tor of Tenders , at Ineco since 1999. “The extensive experience of a new office and the start of an emblematic project: we acquired in national plans in Spain, such as PEIT and technical assistance for the construction and operation of In 2005, it carried out a master plan for the PITVI, singles us out as an expert company in this field”. the Buenavista-Cuautitlán suburban railway, as Emmanuel port of Comodoro Rivadavia and redevelop- africa Gómez, a geologist and civil works technician at Ineco since ment of the port of Santa Fe. Between 2007 Since the year 2000, Ineco has been 2005, explains: “In just two years, the 27 kilometre line was and 2010, a study was carried out for the re- carrying out airport modernisation latin america renewed with new stretches, six stations, transfer stations newal of the line between San Salvador de works in different African countries, In Brazil, as a continuation of the work begun in the 1970s, a and a new electrification, signalling and communications Jujuy and La Quiaca. The person in charge including Namibia (extension of the viability study of the railway connection between São Paulo system”. of the project, Santiago Espinosa, a railway Walvis Bay runway) and Mali (ex- and Campinas was carried out in 2004. For CPTM, Compan- In Argentina, Ineco, together with Alstom, produced the technician at Ineco since 1988, recalls that pansion of the passenger terminal hia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos, work was carried out Rapivía study in 2002, and later, a tender for a future high- the terrain was so inaccessible that “if we at Bamako-Sénou international on the implementation of new lines and the modernisation speed line between Buenos Aires, Rosario and Córdoba. wanted to carry out inspections, we had to airport). of existing ones. In 2007, technical assistance was provided travel much of the 298 kilometres between Jujuy, 2007 Some of the most important for a new line between São Paulo and Guarulhos airport, Salvador de Jujuy and La Quiaca on horseback Rosino Cortés, far left, and Santiago projects were done in Cape Verde with connection to the commuter network. or by bicycle. The section, abandoned in 1993, Espinosa, far right. and continue today: in 2004, Ineco In Venezuela between 2004 and 2008, the then Ineco- was extremely deteriorated and had slopes began drafting refurbishment and Tifsa Group and Renfe were commissioned by Venezuela’s that exceeded 6%”. Ineco has recently returned to working expansion projects for Boa Vista airport, including a new Instituto Autónomo de Ferrocarriles del Estado (IAFE) to put in the country with inspection of the Paseo del Bajo works international terminal that opened in 2007. The company a new 41-kilometre suburban stretch into operation be- in Buenos Aires, among other projects. has subsequently continued its work on the modernisation tween Caracas and Cúa in Valles del Tuy, allowing “500,000 Other works in Latin America include those carried out of other airports in the islands, for which it has prepared inhabitants of the region to reduce average travel times by in Costa Rica, where, in 1984, Ineco drafted a preliminary master plans and other work (night operation studies, ease- an hour and a half”, explains Ángel Serna, a civil engineer project for the Pavas-Curridabat tram line; and in 1992, a ments, GNSS air navigation procedures). “Since 2004, Ineco at Ineco since 1989. “For Ineco, it was a great achievement railway network master plan pre-feasibility study. In Chile, has been a parceiro (partner of confidence) for the airport because, in just two years, we were able to put a modern it drafted a project for a second runway at Santiago airport, and air navigation services operator in Cape Verde, Aero- railway into operation”, he concludes. One year later, in and, in 2007, a study of seven Andean airports for the Cor- portos e Segurança Aérea (ASA), providing technical sup- 2009, Ineco provided support for the refurbishment of the poración Andina de Fomento (CAF). port and enabling the unprecedented growth of its airport Valencia metro and Line 1 of the Caracas metro. and airspace network”, says Ángel Toro, an airport engineer In Colombia, in 1994, a study was carried out on bypass who has been with Ineco since 1999 and has headed the alternatives for Bogotá’s Arterial Railway Network for the europe Cape Verde office for nine years. state railway company Ferrovías. In 1995, the company pro- Ineco carried out work for Eurocontrol and directed the In 2006, Ineco worked on the Algiers tram system, and, vided advisory services for the national rail network con- Caracas-Cúa Project (Venezuela) expansion of Turin-Caselle international airport in Italy in 2007, together with the Italian company SPT, managed Above, from left to right, Antonio Millán, José Andrés Maroto, Ángel Serna, cession process. The following year, Ineco drafted renewal (2005); in 2006, the company received an international and technically assisted the renewal of the 800-kilometre Jesús Mateo (Adif), Isabel Lacambra and Ramón Conde. projects for the Medellín-Puerto Berrío and La Caro-Len- Below, in the centre of the image, Carmen Araújo with local staff at Caracas award for its study of motorway financing in Poland, and railway between Ethiopia and the Republic of Djibouti, a guazaque sections. Between 1999 and 2003, it provided Fer- station in December 2005. worked on the Belgrade metro project (2004-2007). project funded by the EU. - 40 — itransporte itransporte — 41

n the second decade of 2000, the company exported its high-speed experience to Saudi Arabia, the United King- dom, India and Egypt. Activity continued in Latin America and extended to Asia and the Middle East, where it was Iawarded the largest international aeronautical contracts in its history (Kuwait, Abu Dhabi). In Europe, it worked on 50 the implementation of ERTMS, the Galileo system and Trans- European corridors. Ineco also incorporated digital trans- formation in its activity, with the same focus on innovation that it had 50 years ago when the company was created. Passengers and freight CREATING BRAND SPAIN across the EU Ineco continued to work on passenger and freight transport Ineco participated from the planning, which focused increasingly on intermodal and outset in the development transnational transport, with the TEN-T corridors as the of Trans-European TEN-T clearest example. Carolina Sanz, a civil engineer at Ineco corridors, including the Atlantic since 2006, points out: “From the very start, Ineco partici- and Mediterranean (map) and studies of rail connections pated in the development of preliminary studies, in addition such as the Vitoria-Dax, San to railway connections between Vitoria-Dax, San Sebastián- Sebastián-Bayonne and Bayonne and Figueras-Perpignan, as well as the studies of Figueras-Perpignan links. the Atlantic Corridor and the Mediterranean Corridor”, in 2008-2018 regard to which, Esther Durán, a civil engineer working at “I have a clear memory of the study Ineco since 2004, notes: “Ineco has played a decisive role In 2008, Ineco became the government’s ‘in-house resource’ in the definition of projects. In the 2014 study, for example, involving the reopening of the Zaragoza- and in 2010, merged with Tifsa, reaching a total of 3,200 300 projects were identified, of which 44% were railways Canfranc-Pau railway line, which was employees. In Spain, it continued working on the AVE network and 20% were ports”. closed down in 1970 after an accident. They and abroad it was awarded the largest contracts in its history. congratulated us for managing to convince Connections to the NORTH AND SOUTH the French, who had no interest in reopening The Iberian Peninsula is still seeking solutions for its north and south connections to cross the Strait of to Afri- the line, to step on the track once again” ca or the Pyrenees to France. Since 1971, Ineco has complet- Miguel Rojo, civil engineer ed a series of studies on the construction of a link between Spain and Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar, producing Some of the most more than twenty technical and economic reports. Ineco important studies continues this line of work and in 2017 supported an inno- include the reopening of Canfranc (2009) vation project on a Hyperloop system between Spain and and the TRATAR Tangier across the Strait. project (1990), The border crossing with France through Canfranc, Hues- for the Strait of Gibraltar tunnel ca, was also studied. Regarding the 2009 project, Miguel Rojo, management a civil engineer at Ineco between 1974 and 2012, says: “I have company a clear memory of the study involving the reopening of the (SECEGSA/SNED). Zaragoza-Canfranc-Pau railway line, which was closed down in the French section of Béarn in 1970 after an accident. The Spanish government, especially the regional government of Aragón, showed an interest in reopening it, and the latter actually asked us to take on the project. Since the track was closed on the French side, we asked SNCF for assistance. The Bearnese and Aragonese people congratulated us for managing to convince the French railwaymen, who had no interest in reopening the line, to step on the track for the ncy

nd ge first time since the accident, and they were nice enough not 2000: 2 decade A

SS to charge us anything. passengers and freight, N Outside Spain, Ineco has developed studies related to an G EUROPEAN NETWORKS, AVE, e mixed transport and freight, including the Central Bi-Oce- op anic Railway Corridor, which will link Bolivia (environmental r AIR NAVIGATION, CONTROL TOWERS, study, 2014), Peru (pre-investment study, 2016) and Brazil; Nicaragua (Corinto-Monkey Point multimodal corridor, 2013), large PROJECTS and technology Eu PHOTO_ Jujuy (Argentina, 2010), and Antioquia (Colombia, 2011).

42 — itransporte ... itransporte — 43 Ineco’s experience in high-speed lines was consolidated with the arrival of the AVE to Barcelona in 2008, and it has applied From left to right: Madrid-Levante line; this experience to all of the lines built since. In this second and Atocha station. decade of 2000, the network also reached Valencia and Alicante, the Galician coast; and in 2013, the French border.

3,000 kilometres of t d a t s u ila e v a r i v l e n pablo _ _ to oto o PH PH he opening of the Madrid-Barcelona AVE in 2008 where we developed the projects”. Víctor Duarte, Since 2008, marked the opening of a new stage was opened in a civil engineer at Ineco since 1986, emphasises high-speed lines: the beginning of technological the complexity of “the construction project for the AVE network maturity and increased involvement of the Spanish the section between Arroyo del Salado and Her- has been extended T railway sector. As stated by the executive director of rera, which included the complete design of the Systems Engineering, Javier Gallego, with a PhD in indus- platform with two sections of double track in to over 3,100 trial engineering, at Ineco since 1991, “Madrid-Barcelona UIC gauge, each 10 kilometres long, and four kilometres, the set a milestone as the first line with ERTMS, a system that large viaducts up to 1,500 metres high”. Tifsa had already worked with in 1997. This was also the The high-speed radial network –all lines second longest first line to use this high-speed track technology; and the depart from the capital, except the Atlantic entire process of validating, testing and commissioning Axis in Galicia– has been extended to over in the world trains was developed for rolling stock”. 3,100 kilometres today; across the centre and south (To- The recession in 1993 slowed down the work on this line, ledo, 2005, Córdoba-Málaga, 2006-2007, Segovia-Valladolid, which was put into service in stages: first, Madrid-Zaragoza- 2007, Palencia, León, 2015); Levante (Valencia, 2010, Alicante, Ineco participated in Above: aerial view Lleida, opened in 2003; followed by Lleida-Tarragona (2006); all of the HS sections: 2013 and Castellón, 2018); and to the north and northwest of the Córdoba- Barcelona (2008); Figueres-Perpiñán (2011) and in 2013, the above, Ulla viaduct of Spain, the most mountainous and complex regions, with Málaga line, in 2007. Left: Ineco staff in Barcelona-Girona-Figueres connection, one year after the on the Atlantic Axis sections that are currently at different levels of completion. (2015). Below, a team the Gaintxurizketa from Ineco in Cuenca The Galician Atlantic Axis (A Coruña-Santiago, since 2009, tunnel, on the “We drafted the construction project in 2009 and work and Santiago-Vigo, since 2015) and the Santiago-Orense con- Basque Y (2017). to extend the high- nection have been in operation since 2011. The connections Below: Sants station, in Barcelona, and for the section between Arroyo del speed line to Alicante between Madrid and Galicia and with Asturias and Cantabria (2012). designs of stations Salado and Herrera, which included are still under construction; construction of the ‘Basque in the Galician the complete design of the platform Y’, a complex connection of 180 kilometres between the Atlantic Axis. three Basque capitals, is quite far along. Ineco carried out with two sections of double track in the preliminary studies on this line in 1989-90 and the first UIC gauge, each 10 kilometres long, preliminary projects date back to 1991-93. and four large viaducts” ... Víctor Duarte, civil engineer drilling of the Sants-Sagrera railway tunnel in Barcelona. This line is currently the longest in the country, with 749 kilometres of track. “Since 1999, we have provided technical support to the GIF, now known as Adif, collaborating in all technical instructions, specifications and high-speed stand- ard pricing,” says Jorge Rincón, a civil engineer, at Ineco since 1997. “Since then, we have been supervising all sections ex- cept Zaragoza-Lleida, Córdoba-Málaga and Orense-Santiago,

44 — itransporte itransporte — 45 During this period, the company increased and extended its collaboration with ENAIRE in different projects to improve Spanish and European airspace; it began to provide air navigation services and civil aviation consulting in other “The specification countries including Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Colombia or Taiwan. of CNS/ATM systems for Eldorado was a technical challenge as it covered all advanced tower systems and all project phases, over 200 experts and specialists in from basic design to technical requirements for the bid” Víctor Quiñones, aeronautical engineer The Eldorado tower was an engineering challenge due to its height, air navigation design and location.

n 29 July 2010, flight NAY 8651 from Tenerife Norte “the strategic plan for Egyptian civil aviation, awarded landed at , following the infor- in a public tender in 2010, which involved restructuring mation provided by Ineco AFIS operators from the airspace and modernising the CNS/ATM infrastructure On the right, control tower, making Ineco the first company with ICAO guidelines.” Other important projects included the NET control besides ENAIRE to provide air-traffic services in airspace reorganisation in Morocco (2010-2014), Oman tower at Barajas O airport. Below, Spain. According to Luis Negrete, a technical aeronauti- (2013-present) and Cape Verde (2013-2017); the work at cal engineer, deputy director of Operational Systems, at Bogotá airport (2011-2012) and analysis of the impact the Eldorado control tower, Bogotá. ila

Ineco since 1996, “becoming an air traffic service pro- v on airport systems of the cranes in Kaohsiung Harbour a r

vider was a huge qualitative leap forward. Ineco has i (Taiwan) (2015-2017). v l

been a key player in the deregulation of the air naviga- e In international projects, it participated in the SESAR _ tion sector, paving the way for other companies”. In the (2004-2016) programme, and currently in SESAR 2020 and oto

past 25 years or so, the air navigation team has grown PH Horizon 2020, and in research projects related to drones from a small group of people, “to more than 200 special- such as TERRA and IMPETUS. ists and experts -said Juan Carlos Ceballos, an aeronautical engineer at Ineco since 1995- re- membering that “between 2008 and 2011 we Ineco was prepared basic and qualified training for 500 a key Control towers maintenance technicians”. player These towers are equipped to provide the tools and tech- Eldorado: an Some of the more important work in col- nical means to control air traffic, and Ineco supplied the architectural icon laboration with ENAIRE includes the design in the architecture and building equipment together with spe- of advanced flight procedures, and the track cialists in air traffic management (ATM) and in control, In 2011, Colombia’s civil research programme (PICAP). Work was also deregulation communications, navigation and surveillance systems aviation entity commis- done on the ongoing evolution of the SACTA of the (ATC/CNS). sioned Ineco and architect air-navigation control system, on a global The first control tower designed was at the San Javier Bruce Fairbanks to design scale. José Mª Berdoy, an aeronautical engi- sector airport, Murcia, in 2001, although the first to be put into a new control tower with neer at Ineco since 2001, explains how “the service, in 2003, were the NET and SAT towers at Barajas a concrete shaft surrounded by two steel spirals, which climax, after months of effort to prevent anything from airport. Ineco collaborated with Aena and architects Rich- became an architectural icon for the city of Bogotá. For going wrong, was the final night when air control was ard Rogers and Lamela on the planning and design of the Roberto Serrano, an aeronautical engineer at Ineco since first monitored using the new SACTA version. That night two towers, located in terminal 4 and its satellite building. 2000, “the Eldorado tower posed several engineering chal- was very intense, because service cannot be interrupt- Projects were also carried out to install air navigation lenges due to the fact that it is 80 metres high and to the ed and the system must successfully pass the trial by Above, an AFIS systems in the NET towers at Barajas, Málaga airport complexity of its design, as well as the difficulty of the operator from Ineco. fire during peak traffic in the early hours of the morn- On the left, Javier de (2001) and Palma de Mallorca airport (2002). Later, control land and the seismic activity in the area”. For aeronautical ing”. Collaboration with ENAIRE on the development of Cos and Francisco towers were planned for the Boa Vista, Cape Verde (2007) engineer Víctor Quiñones, at Ineco since 1999, “the speci- the future automated air traffic control system (iTEC) Olmedo, from Ineco, and the Barcelona-El Prat airports, designed together with fication of CNS/ATM systems for Eldorado was a technical signing the contract continues today. Among the works abroad, Francisco architect Ricardo Bofill (2008). Draft projects were also challenge because it covered all advanced tower systems with the Egyptian Olmedo, an aeronautical engineer, at Ineco since 1998 civil aviation developed for the airports in Tikrit (Iraq), Chiclayo (Peru) and all project phases, from basic design to technical re- and director of the ENAIRE Account recalled above all authority (2010). and Crete (Greece). quirements for the bid”. ... 46 — itransporte itransporte — 47 Ineco was awarded its major contracts during this decade: the high-speed Makkah-Madinah line, in Saudi Arabia, the HS2, On the left, the Ineco in the United Kingdom, the supervision of the new airport Traffic Control team that carried out the Haramain in Mexico, and the ORAT in Abu Dhabi, in addition to other tests in November 2017. Below, company staff at major projects in Kuwait, Peru and Brazil. the offices of the Al Shoula consortium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2014. major international projects international

panish firms are seeking to establish and expand The company’s experts, Michael Ashiabor, a public factors into account. Finally, civil en- Experience their leadership in the foreign market and the works engineer and Salomé Fernández, a civil engineer, gineers Juan Luis Monjarás and Javier gained in companies of the Fomento Group and the Spanish considered that “the design took into account the profile Pulido point out: “Ineco mobilised a private sector have joined forces to embark on large- of the passengers and the high demand during pilgrim- multidisciplinary team consisting of Spanish S scale infrastructure projects. For the director of In- ages, and solutions were provided in the design of the engineers from more than 10 coun- airports has ternationalisation and Commercial Intelligence, Sergio track and the systems to take climate and environmental tries for the Haramain project. The Navarro, an aeronautical engineer, at Ineco since 2009, “in extreme environmental conditions been implemented this second decade, we have positioned ourselves in new and the magnitude of the project, 450 strategic markets thanks to major international contracts, “This contract award kilometres long, required our teams in the ORAT not only for Ineco but also for the Spanish infrastructure implies the explicit to live in camps in desert areas and to of the new Abu and transport sector. These include the Haramain and HS2 adapt to the demanding project condi- Ineco staff working in Abu Dhabi in 2014. high-speed networks, the Abu Dhabi, Mexico and Schiphol acknowledgement of Ineco tions”. Ineco will continue to provide Dhabi terminal airports or the Galileo satellite project”. and the technological its experience in the management of The global economic crisis and recession in the inter- level of Spanish companies in line maintenance for the next 12 years. proved progressively, and it is now fully established and nal market in 2008 marked a turning point for Ineco, ex- consolidated”. plained the director of International Projects, Juan Ramón terms of high-speed lines” A team of experts from Ineco and Aena are working on Hernández, a civil engineer, at Ineco since 2004: “In the Ignacio González, telecommunications engineer ORAT in Abu Dhabi putting the new installations into operation for the commis- past decade, the paradigm has changed. We know how to The awarding of the Midfield Terminal Complex (MTC) sioning of the MTC in Abu Dhabi. Ignacio Alejandre, a civil use our experience to the greatest advantage; we either project at Abu Dhabi international airport in 2014 was an engineer at Ineco since 1999, summarises it as follows: “The join forces or compete with the best in the world. We rid acknowledgement of the exceptional work done by Ineco new MTC terminal will receive more than 30 million pas- ourselves of our complexes and, together with Spain’s and Aena in previous years and positioned them both as sengers per year and will have 79 aprons, more than 4,800 large construction and engineering firms, helped change leading companies in ORAT (Operational Readiness and parking spaces and a baggage handling system with a capac- the country’s image abroad”. Airport Transfer) projects. Aeronautical engineer Antonio ity of 19,200 suitcases per hour. It is an enormous project Martín, at Ineco since 2001, reminded us that “everything and we have to make sure everything is ready and working began with the expansion of the Madrid-Barajas airport perfectly when ‘D-Day’ –when it goes into operation– comes. High speed in the desert and continued with Barcelona-El Prat, Málaga and Ali- Operating tests are aimed at testing airport operations as On 12 January 2012, the contract for the second phase of cante. Our ORAT methodology was implemented, includ- a whole: infrastructure, processes, systems and facilities... the construction of the high-speed line between Makkah ing the design and execution of the operating tests that and ensure that all staff in all of the organizations involved and Madinah (the Haramain project, which means ‘two holy make it possible to detect and correct anomalies before are familiar with everything and that the procedures work cities’), awarded to the Spanish-Arab consortium Al-Shoula, commmissioning. In the 15 years or more that we have properly. In Abu Dhabi, we are applying a methodology that which included Ineco, was signed in Riyadh, the capital of been working with Aena, this methodology has been im- is a result of the experience we have gained”. Saudi Arabia. “This contract award”, says Ignacio González, ... telecommunications engineer and deputy general director of “The paradigm has changed: we either join forces Special Projects, “is the explicit acknowledgement of Ineco and the technological level of Spanish companies in terms or compete with the best in the world, helping of high-speed lines. Ineco’s participation as the company The pilgrims’ train to change Spain’s image abroad” responsible for the design, quality, technical assistance and A Talgo train during the dynamic tests managed rail traffic management during construction, was critical”. by Ineco’s Traffic Control team. Juan Ramón Hernández, civil engineer

48 — itransporte itransporte — 49 ... years include India’s high-speed system, Malaysian regu- Kuwait and Fujairah latory framework and Singapore, Taiwan and Nepal’s air Kuwait AIRPORT In 2010, in Kuwait, Ineco undertook the revision of the navigation and civil aviation projects”. Some twenty people Master Plan for the industrial area of Shadadiya, and in worked in Kuwait for four years. In the 2011, was awarded its most important contract ever in the picture, Carlos Amigo, region: project management of the Kuwait International hs2: British high speed head of the project, Airport (KIA) expansion, with the project to update the In 2012, Ineco and the British firm, Capita Symonds, in 2013, with the Master Plan added in 2013. For Carlos Amigo, an aeronau- were selected for the HS2 London-Birmingham high- president of Kuwait’s Civil Aviation Authority. tical engineer, at Ineco between 1999 and 2016, “it was the speed stretch in the United Kingdom. This contract was company’s first large-scale expatriate experience, and on followed by another, awarded in 2016. Pablo Ramos, a top of that, in a non-Spanish speaking country. With the civil engineer at Ineco since 2002, and director of the Kuwait project, the company had to manage the needs Northwest European Account, explains it: “We started by of expatriate workers, the difficulty of their connection participating in the development of the most ambitious with the company, the complicated line between family European high-speed project, HS2 (High Speed 2), in 2012, Above, Delta- and work situations, and other problems. This defined the designing a preliminary stage of Phase 1 between Lon- Junction node. framework for other expatriate experiences in Saudi Ara- don and Birmingham, together with the British company, Below, part of the Ineco HS2 team. bia, Abu Dhabi, and Nepal, just a year or two later. Ineco Capita. In this project, we resolved a complex railway switched over to non-centralized management of pro- node, which led to a second contract in 2016 to carry out jects, enabling them for the first time to quantify the ex- the preliminary civil engineering design and the envi- tent to which project management, more than anything ronmental impact studies of another section of Phase 2, else, is people management”. together with the American company, Aecom, and the Ineco was awarded another project management British company, Capita. This project allowed us to export contract in March 2016, for the expansion of the Kuwait our knowledge in high-speed projects in Spain and enrich airport. The company’s presence in the Middle East ex- it with the application of new design technologies such as tended to the Sultanate of Oman, including projects such BIM applied to linear works under the highest worldwide Turkish high-speed line. Worksite sign for the Ankara-Istanbul line, with as the design of flight procedures for the Muscat and project management standards”. the names of the contractors, and below, those of Ineco and its local partner, UBM. Salalah airports (2013-2015) and the Muscat Strategic Bus Transportation Plan (2014). Work is also underway, in collaboration with WorleyParsons, to update Qatar’s Galileo: satellite navigation 2006-2026 Transport Master Plan and in 2018, the Mas- In 2016, the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems ter Plan of King Fahd international airport in Dammam, Agency (GSA) awarded the 10-year contract for the opera- Saudi Arabia. tion and maintenance of the entire European satellite system, Galileo, to the European company, Spaceopal. Work on satellite As part of this contract (for a total of 1 billion euros), In- navigation HS in Asia: Turkey and India eco, supported by INTA (National Institute of Aerospace began in 2005. On the right, The new century marked the company’s entry into new Technology) and Isdefe, is responsible for the manage- Luis Chocano countries, although in some cases, with some prior expe- ment, operation and maintenance of the GNSS Service during a test rience: this was the case in Turkey, where, in 1998, work Centre (GSC). flight in 2011, was done on the electrification of an 80-kilometre rail- Air navigation activities at Ineco started around the and below, other team members, way line in Izmir. In 2009, together with a Turkish part- year 2000, with technical support for Aena. Luis Chocano, in 2017. ner, Ineco began to supervise the work on the adaptation a civil engineer, at Ineco since 2004, summarises as fol- to high speed of the Inönü-Köseköy section of the Anka- lows: “The company has been working on satellite naviga- ra-Istanbul line (2009-2019). In 2016, similar work began tion for over 20 years. Since 2002, European projects like with supervision of the modernisation of the 378-kilome- GIANT and GRAIL have been used to develop aeronautical tre line between Samsun and Kalin, which will continue and railway applications. With GIANT, we achieved the until 2019. In 2015, in Kazakhstan, a feasibility study was first satellite-guided approach in Europe with a com- carried out on the Pavlodar tramway, financed by the Eu- mercial aircraft without the need for a ground-control Félix Zapata and Javier Sancho (on the right), in 2016, during the drafting of the Delhi-Kolkata HS corridor study. ropean Bank for Reconstruction and Development. infrastructure. With the ACCEPTA project (2010-2014), we In India, work was carried out on Line 2 of the Mum- consolidated our position as a leading European com- bai subway (2011) and the company executed feasibility pany in this area, coordinating 40 partners and achieving “We have positioned studies on the high-speed lines between Haldia-Howrah satellite-based landings at airports in 14 countries”. (160 km), Delhi-Kolkata (1,500 km), the company’s long- ourselvesas a global engineering est study, and Bombay-Nagpur (800 km); and in 2017, the companyin new strategic study of a 90-kilometre commuter corridor between Delhi markets thanks to the and Meerut. Between 2012 and 2015, the Civil Aviation and “The HS2 Phase 1 contract, in which we resolved a complex railway Airspace Restructuring Plan for Nepal was carried out. For node, led to a second contract in 2016 to carry out the preliminary civil award of historic contracts” Javier López-Villalta, a civil engineer, at Ineco since 2011, “in a competitive, dynamic and physically and culturally engineering design and the environmental impact studies of another Sergio Navarro, aeronautical engineer distant market like Asia, we have managed to achieve section of Phase 2, together with Aecom and Capita” an important position thanks to the know-how provided Pablo Ramos, civil engineer by Ineco. Some of the more important projects in recent ... 50 — itransporte itransporte — 51 ... for Civil Aviation, along with the management, together with In Europe, schiphol and ertms EBEI, of the odoanel Mário Covas (São Paulo’s ring road) for projects Other major contracts in Europe in- DERSA, (2012-2019). All these were milestones during our clude the control and monitoring of time in Brazil. I would also add the study of new railway mod- include Galileo, the deployment of ERTMS on the con- els and waterway costs done for EPL (Planning and Logistics tinent’s nine main railway corridors, Company) for which we have been developing a National

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Amsterdam Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, which PH As for Colombia, in addition to the supervision of the CAF will be completed in 2023. Other work Above, part of the trains for Metro de Medellín, other important projects airport carried out from 2008 onwards includ- team of the company include the study for the reopening of the old Antioquia terminal ed the design of the Odessa airport that developed the railroad, renamed the ‘Multipurpose Railway System of terminal in Ukraine (2011-2013); the feasibility study on the the Aburrá Valley’, (2009); work on the commuter rail of Cairo-Luxor-Hughada Tallinn tramway improvement and modernisation strat- high-speed corridor the ‘Corridor of the West’ in Bogotá, which included the egy in Estonia (2011) and planning studies in Malta (2014) (2016-2017). design of eight stations (2011) and in 2012, the expansion and Croatia (2014-2016). On the right, a recreation of the Traffic Management System. In these years, we of the Luxor station. also updated the management plans of the airports in Barranquilla (2008) and Cali (2010), where the terminal high speed in Egypt building was remodelled; studies for In Africa, in addition to the intense activity in Cape Verde, “Contracts such as the Ineco currently a cargo area at Flanders airport (2011); during the second decade of the century, work was also Guadalajara-Colima highway, the management of the work and the de- done in Kenya (traffic studies for the Nairobi airport, operates sign of the new terminal at the Carta- 2008); Morocco (Casablanca Mohammed V airport, in new international airport (NAICM), gena de Indias airport (2012-2013) and 2011); Mauritania (extension of the pier and improve- and metro line 12, have made us throughout supervision of work on the runway at ments in the port of Nouadhibou, 2009-2011); Algeria Latin America: the Cali airport (2013). (National Transport Plan, 2011), and Egypt. In 2017, the one of the leading engineering Ineco’s representative in Latin feasibility study of the 1,200-kilometre high-speed Cairo- companies in Mexico” Mexico, Brazil, America, Félix Ortega, a civil engi- Luxor-Aswan-Hurghada corridor was completed in this neer, at Ineco since 1989, points out: country. In 2012, safety studies were carried out in An- Alberto Váscones, civil engineer Peru, Colombia, “Metro de Medellín is one of the com- gola, in collaboration with Aena Internacional for the 4 Argentina pany’s success stories, both commer- de Fevereiro airport in Luanda. In 2015, a National Airport cially and technically: we have been Plan was developed in Uganda. and Panama working for them continuously since Above, Eduardo Marcos and Javier Gallego, in 2011, with the planning 2010”. Important recent work in Latin engineer for Metro de Medellín, Diego Ricaurte. America also includes “the Ecuador Strategic Mobility Below, in the centre, Víctor Pardo, and on the right, José Ángel Gómez Mexico’s new airport Plan (2013), work at the Chiclayo and Jorge Chávez airports with personnel from the local partner, Cesel, at the Lima airport, in 2014. After conducting a sign study on three highways in Mexico, in Lima and the Bioceanic Corridor in Peru; the Santiago in 2011, a 14-year contract with Banobras to serve as the metro in Chile, and most recently in Argentina, the Paseo 2008 with the updating of the Sangster airport Master Administrative Agent and Supervisor (AAS) of the Gua- del Bajo, in Buenos Aires”. Plan. This project was followed by others such as the dalajara-Colima highway was awarded. For Ineco’s rep- In addition to these large projects, since 2003, Ineco has rehabilitation of the runway (2010) and redesign of the resentative in Mexico, Alberto Váscones, a civil engineer been working on planning the 12 airports of Grupo Aero- check-in area (2017). In Costa Rica, highlights include the who has been with the company since 1994, this contract portuario del Pacífico (GAP), owned by Aena. Rodrigo López, railway system in San José for Incofer (2013); the National “consolidated Ineco’s presence in Mexico, constituted the an aeronautical engineer, at Ineco since 2008, points out Transport Plan and the Strategic Civil Aviation Plan, and development of a new management model that served as that: “Together with GAP and Aena, we have developed the recently the administrative, legal and environmental a benchmark for all other highways, and resulted in the Master Development Programmes for 2005-2019, 2010-2024 management of the IDB-financed Costa Rican Transport opening of our subsidiary, InecoMex, in May 2011. Since and 2015-2029, which we are also updating for 2020-2034. Infrastructure Programme (PIT). In Panama, the strategic 2016, Ineco and InecoMex have been supervising work on We also developed different functional terminal designs, plan for airport development was prepared in 2010 and the New Mexico City International Airport (NAICM), one of such as Puerto Vallarta and Tijuana”. since 2014, the Independent Security Assessment (ISA) Pr ojects the largest airport projects in the world, and management in Mexico Central America and the Caribbean include countries of the expansion of Line 1 and the new Metro Line 2 of of the extension of Line 12 of the Mexico City metro, which Above, works such as Jamaica, where the company began working in Panama City. makes us one of the benchmark engineering companies”. on Mexico - City’s New International Airport (NAICM). “Metro de Medellín is one of the company’s São Paulo ring road On the right, success stories, both commercially and technically: In the case of Brazil, the director of the South American the InecoMex team in 2018. Account, José Batlles, a civil engineer at Ineco since 2006, we have been working for them highlights the contracts “for management and supervision continuously since 2010” of CPTM lines and trains for the São Paulo Metro and the feasibility study of 50 regional airports for Brazil’s Secretariat Félix Ortega, civil engineer

52 — itransporte itransporte — 53 The commitment to being on the forefront of technology dates back ERTMS: In two decades, to the founding of both Ineco and Tifsa. In 1968, Carlos Roa explained we HAVE GONE from the that the objective was “to create a stable and permanent entity first research projects that will remain at the highest scientific level with maximum practical to supervision of the wisdom in terms of transport economics and coordination”. implementation of the system throughout the continent for the European Commission, ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF and HAVE EXPORTED the experience in Spain to other countries TEO CHNOL GY such as Denmark

he first ground-breaking work dates back to the 1970s, ated under its own system. To do this, a consortium of when, after purchasing the first programmable com- signalling companies called UNISIG was formed. puter –the HP30–, simulation programmes were de- The European Union subsidised pilot applications to On the left, Francisco Mayoral, Miguel López veloped. Tifsa started operating in 1983 in railway test and adapt the system in each country. In Spain, the (CEDEX), Alfonso research and technology and contributed this wealth Ministry of Public Works called for a tender in the year 2000 Martínez and Beatriz T Sierra, in Copenhagen. of knowledge to the company. to install and test ERTMS level 1 in the Albacete-Villar de Below, Javier Gallego Chinchilla pilot section; Ineco was awarded the contract (first left), Silvia to monitor and supervise the works, which was extended Domínguez and Beatriz European projects until 2005, and in 2001, was awarded another contract for Sierra (centre), with other When Spain became a member of the European Union, it the same stretch, for level 2 of the system. Spanish participants at the World Conference began to participate in large research projects promoted For Pablo Casado, a technical telecommunications en- on ERTMS held in by the EU Framework Programmes. Since 2006, Ineco has gineer, at Ineco since 1992, “it is a great honour to have led Stockholm in 2012. played a leading role in the development of the 6th and 7th the Ineco team that participated in the initial development Framework Programmes –such as the TITAN, GIANT and GI- and implementation of ERTMS in Spain”, which proposed ANT 2 projects; GRAIL 2, CREDOS, BOSS and ACCEPTA– and “certain changes in the specifications and development other European R&D initiatives such as the SESAR, AIRE or of the so-called national functions that allowed trains to EUROMED Programmes, to improve cooperation in civil avi- travel without amending the regulations. It is important ation safety; and in road safety, with programmes such as Above, the European to note that UNISIG and the European Commission itself ACCEPTA project SEROES (2007), to reduce traffic accidents; and Pilot4safety were responsible for many of these changes”. promoted the use of (2012), to train road safety inspectors and auditors. Some of satellites in aviation. In 2006, the new system began operation for the first of the most important projects in the current programme, Ineco’s first PC (right) time on the Madrid-Lleida high-speed line, with Ineco pro- Horizon 2020, include the TERRA and IMPETUS projects, and below, Eurocontrol viding technical assistance to the GIF. In the years that approach chart. aimed at identifying information requirements and ground followed, the company continued to participate in the im- systems required for the operation of low-altitude drones. plementation of ERTMS on the high-speed and conven- tional network throughout Spain. At the same time, since 1994, the company has been col- Pioneers in ERTMS laborating with the Railway Interoperability Laboratory (LIF) “We are proud to have led the Ineco A key technological development in the field of railways of the CEDEX (Center for Studies and Experimentation of team that participated in the first is ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System), Public Works) and the Ministry of Public Works on different the common European railway signalling system. In two research projects for high-speed and commuter lines. development and implementation decades, the company has gone from the first European In 2018, the Ministry of Public Works approved the Na- of ERTMS in Spain. It is important research projects carried out by Tifsa, to coordinating and tional Deployment Plan for the ERTMS system in Spain. to note that changes were proposed supervising ERTMS implementation on the nine main cor- Industrial engineer Beatriz Sierra, at Ineco since 2002, ridors of the continent until 2021, after being awarded a stresses that the experience gained in Spain was also im- by the European Commission” contract by the European Commission. plemented in other European countries, “such as Denmark, Pablo Casado, technical telecommunications engineer In the early 1990s, the European Commission began to a complete network deployment where we collaborated on push for a new system to ensure interoperability between the system validation strategy and performed laboratory the different European rail networks, each of which oper- tests”. Silvia Domínguez, a telecommunications engineer,

54 — itransporte ... itransporte — 55 ... at Ineco since 2006, adds that: “ERTMS is at the centre of represent and model information for all areas of a build- the modernisation and digitisation of railways, and Ineco ing project. Ineco implemented BIM in the design of the is the benchmark and the engineering company entrusted new Odessa airport terminal (2013), the Abu Dhabi air- to implement this system by the European Union Agency port passenger traffic flow analysis (2014) and the HS2 for Railways (ERA) and the European Commission”. Delta Junction rail node in the United Kingdom, for which it received the Be Ineco’s BIM projects: terminal Since 2015, Inspired Awards 2013 prize awarded designs at the Ineco has by Bentley Systems. Cristina Palmero, airports in Odessa from BASIC to BIM an architect and BIM expert, at Ineco (Ukraine) and Boa Vista, Cape Verde. Throughout its history, Ineco has not only made use of supported since 2009, comments that “since us- Below, Jorge commercial technological advances, but has also cus- ing BIM, we have expanded our field Torrico, (fourth on tomised them and developed a wide variety of its own the Ministry of action, ranging from the creation of the left) at the 5th software tools for all types of tasks and in all areas of European standards, supporting the meeting of the of Public BIM commission, transportation. It has also created and managed data- Administration, to applying BIM inno- in 2017. bases and websites, such as the Aena website, and more Works in the vation in projects such as the design recently, others, such as the Observatory for Transport and of the new Schiphol airport terminal implementation Ineco’s IT and Logistics of the Ministry of Public Works or the ‘A million and circular economy (2017)”. innovation team for climate’ campaign for the Paris Agreement (2016). of BIM in Since 2015, Ineco has supported presenting the Ineco’s first technological developments date back to the Ministry of Public Works in the Cityneco platform Spain and at the Smart the 1970s, with the first programs for calculating align- implementation of BIM in Spain and City Expo 2017 ment rectification, such as those used in the study of the represents it represents it in the European work congress Madrid-Zaragoza-Barcelona-Port Bou line and later in group, EU BIM, as part of the steer- in Barcelona.

ila the NAFA and the Madrid-Seville line. During those same in the European ing committee. Civil engineer, Jorge v a

r years, railway traffic (‘speed diagram’) and economic-fi- Torrico, the secretary of the ES.BIM i work group, v nancial simulations began. Commission and director of BIM at “Technology has always been _ el A large number of railway tools were rolled out in EU BIM Ineco, explains that: “As the main

oto a part of Ineco’s trajectory, h the 1980s and 1990s. These included the MTF (Rail Traffic benefits, I would essentially high- p Model) application, in 1986, which estimated the future light improvement in quality, transparency, traceabil- with the goal of ‘maintaining evolution of traffic; MIDAS, a database for railway installa- ity and reduction of risks and uncertainties throughout the highest scientific level’ as tions that was also used to draw up the Renfe Real-Estate project life cycle”. Inventory between 1990 and 1993; POSTES, PÓRTICOS and stated by its founder 50 years TENDIDOS, to calculate structures; SIMTREN, to estimate ago. Ineco not only implements energy needs; GESTRANS, launched in 1998 during an elec- these developments in its studies trification project in Turkey to calculate the location of ICT and intelligent mobility “As the main benefits of BIM, posts, overhead lines, etc. In the year 2000, the Public Business Entity Red.es entrust- and projects, but also promotes I would essentially highlight In the year 2000, SIOS (Emblematic Works Information ed Ineco with technical assistance (concluded in 2002) to many of them, representing and System) was created based on work done in the tunnels manage the registration of country domains (.es). Ineco improvement in quality, Guadarrama and Pajares tunnels, and was also used later also designed and implemented the first Early Alert Centre providing technical support to the transparency, traceability and with high-speed lines; as well as georeferenced high- for Computer Viruses in Spain. The same team launched Ministry of Public Works and to reduction of risks and uncertainties speed applications such as SFINGE (2002), for inventory; Aena’s website in 2002. Ineco has been responsible for its shareholders, Enaire, Adif and INGRID, for track assembly; SITRAS, for maintenance; SIOF, maintaining and developing the site ever since. throughout the project life cycle” an alarm system or COPERNICO, the Renfe’s rail operating The arrival of the new millennium and with it, the Renfe, in different national and Jorge Torrico, civil engineer system (2005). growth of the Internet and digital society boosted activi- international organisations” In the field of aeronautics, programs include TITÁN, ties relating to information and communication technolo- an emergency and self-protection plan for Aena’s air- gies (ICT), implemented not only in the world of transport Rocío Viñas, deputy general director ports; ICARO, for aerodrome and heliport management, but in other areas as well. The director of Information of Cooperation and Innovation of Ineco SIOS (Emblematic Works and HERMES, for the documentary control of airport re- Technology and Digital Transformation at Ineco, Ignacio Information ports. One of Ineco’s most successful developments is the Martínez, cites high-impact ongoing projects such as “the System) was COVER tool suite (2005) for air navigation simulations. digitisation and modernisation of the Justice System”, launched in the year 2000. HELIOS is a georeferenced platform created to facilitate for the Ministry of Justice. Ineco has been collaborating the future lies in innovation the preparation of navigation easements in the vicinity with the State Secretariat for the Information Society and In November 2017, the Ministry of Public Works presented of airports; the PISTA econometric model, on the other Digital Agenda since 2016 on the National Plan for Smart the Transport and Infrastructure Innovation Plan 2017- hand, was designed for air traffic forecasts at Aena, with Cities, including international promotion of the plan. 2020, drafted by Ineco, which aims to integrate and co- which Ineco also collaborates on the implementation of In the area of smart cities, IT engineer and expert in ordinate all innovative work performed by companies the SIRA system, which is part of the different radio-aid IT consulting and new technologies, Jesús Vázquez, high- and institutions involved in the Public Works Group. “We management software programmes. Other developments lights Ineco’s proprietary development “the Cityneco plat- set out a roadmap for three years and a strategy based include the GETRAM model, for the functional analysis of form, for the integration of information on the different on digitization, the Internet of the future, intermodality service roads in airports, and GESTROL, the tool used for services offered by the city (mobility, environment, etc.). and energy transformation”, explains Rocío Viñas, a law maintenance of airport road surfaces. We were also involved in the study and optimisation of graduate with a Diploma in Business Sciences and deputy In 2010, Ineco began working with a BIM (Building smart mobility in cities, creating real-time simulation and general director of Cooperation and Innovation, at Ineco Information Modelling) methodology, a system used to prediction environments”. since 2017. - 56 — itransporte itransporte — 57 Throughout its history, Ineco has executed original works that demonstrate its technical capabilities and the adaptability of the company’s professionals. UNIQUE AND out of the ordinary neco has carried out a wide range throughout Spain, which include Lo According to Javier Pérez of different projects, which in- Hueco, in Fuentes (Cuenca) (6), where 3 Sanz, former general clude directing the construction the remains of 23 giant sauropods manager of Renfe and of a prison (the A Lama prison in dating back 80 million years were member of the first team of Ineco, where IPontevedra in 1995)(1) and schools unearthed in 2017, along with 8,000 he worked from 1973 in Colombia (2016-2019), to design- other fossils. to 1986, for Carlos ing university buildings, such as the Roa, founder of Ineco, campus of the University of Guada- the important thing Multidisciplinary was not so much the lajara or the expansion of the IESE advisers object of the work but in Madrid; and bank buildings, such Specialised technical support for 4 the work itself: “He as the headquarters of Barclays Bank Spain’s Central government, which always insisted that the ultimate goal was not in Zaragoza (2). Between 2000 and Ineco has provided from the very just to make money and 2002, the company also supervised start, also included a very wide range look good, but to deliver real-estate developments in Spain of work for almost all ministerial de- an excellent study”. for Renfe. Also in 2002, the company partments. In the field of building, was in charge of the project and su- real-estate inspections of consulates, pervision of the restoration of the chancelleries and Spanish embassies 5 gardens at the Fernán Núñez Palace in 16 countries in the Americas (2015) in Madrid –Ineco’s first headquar- or, that same year, the supervision of ters–; and after the inauguration of rehabilitation of the headquarters of the AVE to Seville, maintenance of the the Ministry of Economy (7); and is Tropical Garden in Atocha Station (3). Foreign Affairs, started in 2016 and Another unique project was the eco- expected to last 42 months. On the nomic valuation study on the curing other hand, starting in the mid-2000s For a future full of 6 and drying of Spanish jamón ibérico onwards, the company did work re- in Teruel 1994 (4), which was carried lated to information technology, such out by the branch office in Seville. as the modernisation of the Justice shared projects In some cases, the uniqueness of Administration and support for the a project is the result of the need to National Smart Cities’ Plan, among resolve collateral issues that come others. up during the execution of a pro- Since 2015, Ineco has provided ject, such as the design and execu- support to the Ministry of Public 7 1 tion of the self-propelled trolley (5), Works in the development of the in- which was used in the early 1990s novative procurement process known Happy 50 Anniversary to measure the geometry of the as Public Procurement for Innovation; overhead line during electrification in this particular case, to solve the tests to increase travel speed on the problem of persistent fog on a stretch INECO 1968 - 2018 Mediterranean Corridor to 220 km/h. of road in Lugo. In regard to ports, Ine- In other cases, it was the project it- co has provided support to the public 8 2 self that held surprises, such as ar- agency Puertos del Estado to prepare chaeological sites discovered during specifications for new port services high-speed works: During its envi- and renew public concessions (2016), ronmental management of works, and collaborated on the Lighthouses Ineco has supervised the excavation of Spain project (8), aimed at study- and scientific documentation of no ing new complementary uses of these less than 272 archaeological sites facilities. - ALTA VELOCIDAD 58 — itransporte itransporte — 59 INECO 215x280 may 2018 60 ANIVERSARI0 bilingue.pdf 3 13/06/2018 15:37:01

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