Ingenio Nº 43 | FEBRUARY 2021 From strength to strength in spite of COVID-19 Ingenio AYESA 3 Nº 43 Ayesa achieves a record in new contracts in 2020 >> The company ended the year of COVID with 4% organic growth in terms of its core business. Over recent months, the firm has pushed ahead with its digital transformation process like never before. Ayesa has pushed full steam ahead increase in new contracts’. This means that looking at different ways of growing and will throughout 2020, a year which was largely 2021 looks set to be a good year, with the continue to reinvent ourselves, as we have Summary dominated by COVID-19, and ended the year group expected to exceed 300 million euros always have done’. with 4% annual growth in terms of its core in new contracts for the first time in its Ayesa ended the year with a portfolio of business. history. projects worth 480 million euros, Its main activity, which is centred around its José Luis also explained how in 2020 Ayesa compared to 419 million euros at the end of Engineering and Technology areas, is set to ‘took the decision to pursue the most 2019. 03 2020: A Year Defined by COVID-19 06 The Bogotá Metro José Luis Manzanares Abásolo, CEO of Ayesa, during the Yearly Review Workshop on 22 December. 08 Using Technology to Combat COVID hit a record high thanks to the firm’s effective ambitious digital transformation process Last year, the company was awarded a management of the pandemic, which has ever seen at the company’, going on to number of major contracts, such as the 09 10 years of Ayesa in Peru seen it keep going throughout. note how ‘healthcare management was our supervision services for the first line of Published by: Overall turnover for the year was priority and we have managed to digitalise all Bogotá’s metro system, worth 56 million Ayesa approximately 260 million euros, the result internal processes. This has consolidated our euros; the supervision services for water 10 A Leader in Metro Systems of disinvestment in power generation and position as a solid, competitive company’. pipelines in Saudi Arabia, worth 20 million Written by: other areas the group is involved in at an In terms of 2021, he noted that the main euros; the Tren Maya, worth 10.4 million Lidia Velasco international level. challenges for Ayesa will continue to be euros; and numerous IT implementation Momentum Comunicación 12 Digital Site At the firm’s annual senior management the expansion of its engineering area into and evolution projects for utilities and the meeting, José Luis Manzanares Abásolo, new markets, securing new technology public sector. One example of the latter is Contact: Events, Prizes and Conferences CEO of Ayesa, highlighted ‘the good clients and offering innovative digital the renewal of the maintenance services [email protected] 14 results achieved over the year, despite the transformation services. contract for the Gerhonte platform, a uncertainty caused by COVID-19, as well To finish, he said, ‘in 2021, we are going HR solution designed by Ayesa for the Head office: Transforming Through GIS as the growth in sales and profits, and the to make great leaps forward. We will be Andalusian Health Service (SAS). Edificio Ayesa, Marie Curie 2, 16 Parque Científico y Tecnológico Cartuja, Seville 41092, Spain. 18 Full Steam Ahead With R&D All content is subject to copyright. It is strictly ‘In 2021, we are going to make ‘Healthcare management was ‘This means that 2021 looks prohibited to distribute all or any part of this 19 The Ayesa Foundation great leaps forward. We will our priority and we have ma- set to be a good year, with the magazine without the express permission of be looking at different ways of naged to digitalise all internal group expected to exceed 300 the author. growing and will continue to processes.’ million euros in new contracts reinvent ourselves.’ for the first time in its history.’ 6 CIVIL ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING 7 Taking urban regeneration to the next level The supervision services contract for Bogotá’s first metro system is helping it con- solidate its position as one of Latin America’s leading firms for metro systems, taking its place alongside lines 1 and 2 of the Panama Metro, Line 1 of the Quito Metro, lines 1, 2 and 4 of the Lima Metro, and Line 12 of the Mexico City Metro in the company’s portfolio. For Ayesa’s Transport Infrastructure Division in Latin America, it represents the fruit of all their hard work over the year and a half the tender process lasted, and comes on the back of the experience and expertise acqui- red during the previous two phases, namely the auditing of the design work, the contract for which was awarded to Ayesa at the end of 2013, and the provisional construction proposal it drafted for a bidder in 2019. To have been selected to participate in Bogotá’s first ever metro system, which the city has fought hard for over the past 78 years, is a source of great pride for Ayesa. The achievement is also no small feat, given the fact that it is the biggest contract ever secured by the firm’s Engineering Area. However, this is much more than just a trans- port system. It is a major urban regeneration project, set to transform Colombia’s capital city, improving the quality of life of its inhabi- tants and boosting its productivity. In terms of the tender process, which saw Virtual mock-up of one of the main metro stations in Bogotá. around a hundred firms show interest, the ‘This is the biggest engineering contract Bogotá will gain 1.4 million square metres team charged with securing victory for Ayesa ever awarded to Ayesa and is a reflection of of extra public space, including pavements, worked non-stop, right from the pre-qualifi- the excellent work we have carried out as squares, cycleways and roads. cation stage. Given the strict requirements, A city fit for the 21st century: Ayesa supervises part of major infrastructure projects in Latin only seventeen bidders submitted expres- America, and in particular metro systems’, The first line of the Bogotá Metro has been sions of interest, of which eleven were short- the construction of Bogotá’s first metro system notes José Luis Manzanares, CEO of Ayesa. designed based on strict energy efficiency listed and three presented bids. and environmental criteria. As such, the The work required of the team was complex, Integration entire system will be 100% electric with >> This is Latin America’s most eagerly-awaited infrastructure project, with a budget of 3,500 million but with a solid strategy, planning and organi- In a city where 12.7 million trips are made the trains running on clean energy, and the sation, as well as rigour, precision and discipli- project will create thousands of local jobs. dollars, and is set to help relieve congestion in Bogotá, a city with a population of eight million. each day, 50.1% of which on public transport ne, it was able to meet the stringent require- (TransMilenio, feeder services, buses and ta- Ayesa has been present in Latin America ments regarding experience and expertise, as xis) and 25.1% on foot or by bicycle, the Bo- since 2003, where it is now involved in pro- well as financial and legal conditions. Ayesa Empresa Metro de Bogotá has awarded the with the Italian companies Italferr and covering the preliminary phase (design gotá Metro will be a well-integrated addition jects in seven countries. Amongst its most was able to develop an excellent methodo- consortium PLMB, led by Ayesa, the supervi- Metropolitana Milanese, and the Colombian supervision) through to the construction, to the city’s existing public transport system. noteworthy projects here are the first line logy for carrying out its supervision work, re- sion services contract for Bogotá’s first me- firm MAB, have secured this 65-million- manufacturing, testing and commissioning Of the 16 new stations, 10 will be served by of the Quito Metro, lines 1, 2 and 4 of the sulting in an outstanding bid. tro system, the construction and operation dollar (56-million-euro) contract after being phases, as well as its operation over the first direct TransMilenio services. To allow the Lima Metro and lines 1 and 2 of the Panama of which will require a 3,500-million-dollar awarded the most points for their technical two years. city’s residents to get around more easily, Metro. Despite the fact that we budget. and financial proposals in a tender carried The first line of the Bogotá Metro will have there will also be feeder routes on Avenida In Colombia, Ayesa is currently involved in had to deal with the effects This is one of Latin America’s most eagerly- out in accordance with the Policies for the 16 stations spread over 23.9 kilometres, and Ciudad de Cali and Avenida 68, 19 kilometres other projects designed to improve urban of the pandemic, which awaited projects, given that Bogotá is the Selection and Contracting of Consultants will be able to transport 72,000 passengers of cycleways will be built and around 10,000 and inter-urban transport, such as providing made obtaining and sub- only major city in the region without a metro financed by the Inter-American Development per hour in each direction, i.e. more than bicycle racks will be installed at the stations. supervision services for the commuter rail mitting documents system, and also due to the fact that it will Bank (IDB).