ICT Consultancy Services Climb Ayesa Boasts Over 300 Consultants and 150 SAP Certifications

Ingenio Nº 33 | JULY 2017

Leadership in Latin Seville tram Thirteen years American subways network expansion under the sun

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ICT consultancy services climb Ayesa boasts over 300 consultants and 150 SAP certifications. During its 15 years as a partner of the German technology giant, it has helped 200 clients to modernise their management systems, and it is currently on its way to becoming a benchmark for these solutions in the Spanish-speaking market. The contract awarded by Enel to overhaul their economic-financial systems represents another big step. Ingenio Nº 33

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03 ICT consultancy services climb 05 Taibilla Canals

Contents: Endesa VIP clients Communication Department. 06 Marta Beteta [email protected] 07 New Lima Metro contract María Jesús Tejera [email protected] 08 Seville tram network expansion Lidia Velasco [email protected] 09 Thirteen years under the sun Design: María Jesús Tejera 10 Biannual Group Meeting

Head office: In the news Edificio Ayesa, Marie Curie, 2 14 Parque Científico Tecnológico Cartuja 41092 Seville, Spain 16 Talent Programme 17 Ayesa Foundation All material is subject to copyright. It is strictly prohibited to distribute all or any 18 A Tribute to Spring part of this magazine without the express permission of the author. 19 Ayesians around the world Ayesa’s consultants team specialized in SAP, in the Center of Excellence located in the Sevilla Tower.

Ayesa has emerged as a key player on as well as enabling people to get the most large-scale projects to carry out even bigger both a national and international level in out of their investment in IT systems”. cross-border projects. the introduction of company management Today, the company has over 300 highly- systems using SAP technology. The com- experienced consultants on their staff, with Know how pany possesses more than twenty years of 150 SAP certifications between them. The first major contract carried out by experience in this world-leading technology, This team has worked with around 200 Ayesa, and which turned it into a leader in but over the past few years it has taken clients from nine different countries and the general government sector, was GIRO several giant steps forward to enter signi- a variety of sectors (from public entities (Gestión Integrada de Recursos Organizativos, ficant contracts with companies like Enel, to large corporations), which comprise a or Integrated Management of Organisatio- and governments such as in Panama and total of 15,000 end users. In Spain, over 100 nal Resources), which was designed for the Ecuador. Currently, this business line is one SAP specialists are based at the hub for Regional Government of Andalusia. This was of the fastest growing and most prominent this business line, which is now located in an important step forward, both in qualitative in the company. the Seville Tower: the tallest skyscraper in and quantative terms, as the platform that was Andalusia. The aim for this business line is installed integrates all the operations carried €31 million budget to make use of its acquired experience in out by the largest autonomous government in managed through SAP at Ayesa GIRO numbers the GIRO platform

Javier Requejo, Utilities, Telco and Industry 300 8.500 Director, says that “Ayesa has been focused Consultants Users on SAP for two decades now, as the biggest multinational companies use it for their company management systems. SAP offers 150 2.000 robust solutions for all business processes SAP Certifications Daily connections and in all sectors. Ayesa has invested in development solutions for the utilities, government and industry sectors, allowing for 15.000 2,5Millions a reduction in timescales and project costs Final users Bills

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Spain, with a budget of over €31 million. The creating a future full of tremendous opportuni- Andalusian administration opted for SAP tech- ties in ICT consulting. This is one of the biggest nology (having previously used custom-made SAP projects in the world, and its international technology) to integrate its entire economic- scope means that Ayesa’s involvement is New SAP financial management system. Ayesa won the earning them serious recognition. public call for tender to deploy this system in certification 2011, in a consortium with Informática El Corte New Management System for Enel Group Inglés (Iecisa), with other major contracts in The Italian energy group and owner of in Colombia South America following the formation of this Endesa chose Ayesa in partnership with business relationship. Indra and Engineering to redesign the Corpo- and Ecuador rate and Operative management model used The platforms save in their Distribution, Production, Renewables and Market departments. This will allow for Ayesa is now certified as a SAP Part- huge amounts of the creation of a platform which standardi- ner Center of Expertise, allowing it to time and improve ses IT systems and management across the position itself as one of the techno- group, enabling them to adopt best practices logy giant’s key Services and VAR productivity in all the countries (currently over 25) in (Value-Added Reseller) companies in which they operate. The end goal is for the Colombia and Ecuador. This platform now has 8,500 users and a integration and standardisation of these pro- This accreditation, awarded by the recorded 2,000 connections per day, in cesses to result in saving a significant amou- German group, recognises the com- addition to another 1,500 from the web, 2.5 nt of time in the operation of the electricity pany as a first-rate provider. million invoices are sent per year and 7 million company, as well as improving productivity To reach this standard, Ayesa has accountancy documents amassed. Although in dependent companies and throughout the passed a rigorous audit in which it deployment was completed last year, the com- group. Ayesa was involved in deploying the complied with the requirements set pany continues to reach new heights. “We are new SAP-based model in the Spanish subsi- out by the producer for three key continuing to grow, with major new projects in diary, and aims to continue variables: a high-value technical team, new areas - such as the integration of public soon with deployment support platforms, and processes. procurement and the treasury budget - having of their systems Luisa Oliveros, Channel Sales Director recently been undertaken,” says Miguel Ángel in five other South at SAP for the Northern Latin Ameri- Fernández, Ayesa’s Director of Services for the American countries can region, said that “involvement in Andalusian Finance Department. The firm has (Argentina, Brazil, sales generated through our SAP Co- also managed to transfer the know-how it has Chile, Peru and lombia channels is highly significant. acquired to other autonomous government Colombia), as Our aim is to continue supporting our bodies, such as Castilla-La Mancha. However, well as throug- Javier Requejo business partners’ development and although the GIRO project has been critical for hout the rest of specialisation”. Ayesa, it is their contracts with Enel which are Europe. Dir. Utilities, Telco, Industry and Banking

Record portfolio worth of €463 million

>> A growth of 28% was seen in that the path we have taken to secure the and military logistics, and system develo- projects won by the engineering company’s future is a successful one”, says pment Social Geography of the Mexican and technology group in 2016, President of Ayesa José Luis Manzanares. Secretariat of Social Development. 2016 also South America continues to be a key region proved to be a very productive year in the compared to the previous year. for Ayesa, as confirmed by an increase in engineering department, with projects inclu- their project portfolio in the zone. Standing ding the supervision of construction work Ayesa is reinforcing its position as one of the out among these are the development of for new airports in Mexico City and Cuzco, strongest companies in its sector. and the Mumbai Metro works, the company’s In 2016, the engineering, consultancy and Focus on R+D in South eighth subway project across the world. The innovation technological services group company’s focus on R+D has enabled them achieved a record figure in contracted America allows the to develop their own tools in fields such as work: a total of €463 million, with a notable Group to increase the big data, energy efficiency, electric mobility, increase of 28% from the previous year. An educational and legal resource manage- improvement was also seen in revenues, revenues by 3.5% ment and infrastructure design with BIM where figures reached 240.5 million. This is technology. “The developments have very 3.5% more than in 2015, whilst pre-tax profit SAP in the management of public finances in much increased our value when it comes came in at 3.8 million (a 13% increase). It Ecuador and Panama, the modernisation of to competing with large firms across all five has been a difficult year, but we are showing Colombia’s electronic court records system continents”, Manzanares explains.

Ingenio_4 Ayesa completes their largest contract in water automation and telecontrol >> The company has equipped in length. The large surface area covered “All the hydraulic structures were already in the Taibilla Canals, which trans- by the association has been one of the place. We added the smart aspect”, explains port drinking water to over 2.5 challenges faced by the Ayesa team, which project director Jaime Argüelles. The supervi- has managed to successfully install measu- sion, automation and control systems mean million people, with intelligent ring and control sensors and systems in 180 the transportation and storage of water can systems. facilities and connect them via radio link on a be managed intelligently, using remote real- private bandwidth, for which a high-capacity time water level, quality and pressure mana- Ayesa has successfully completed its largest backbone network comprising 28 main nodes gement. Consequently, Argüelles highlights water telecontrol project to date. After five and an access network with almost 200 entry that “the advanced technology deployed by years of activity, all works conferred upon the points has been built. Included in this total Ayesa improves and facilitates operations, company by the Taibilla Canals Association are 31 pumping stations, 112 reservoirs, 5 at the same time as reducing and optimising have been completed for a sum of over €14 costs. Furthermore, it aids in decision-ma- million. This organisation is a subsidiary of Measuring and control king, as the technical solution automatically the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Envi- generates operations plans”. There were two ronment, and is responsible for supplying sensors and systems stages to the project: the first focused on drinking water to 79 localities in south- have been installed in primary facilities, and the second on smaller, eastern Spain including Murcia, Cartagena, auxiliary facilities. Professionals from various Elche and Alicante. Through this activity, 180 connected facilities backgrounds were required for the suc- the association serves a population of over cessful execution of the project: from project 2.5 million people, which increases to over purification plants, the New Canal of Carta- and technical management to electrical en- three million during the summer. To do this, gena and more than 40 measuring stations, gineers, telecontrol specialists, programmers its primary canal network is 498 kilometres including one at the Taibilla dam. and graphic designers.

A background of extensive experience Ayesa has extensive experience in the telecontrol sector, having also recently completed the automation process of the Navarra Canal, the Piedras Canal (Huelva), and sanitation for Vigo City Hall. Previously the company has worked with businesses such as Giahsa (Huelva), Cobre Las Cruces, and the Guadalquivir River Authority. Jaime Argüelles Project Director

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Outsourcing services for VIP clients

>> Via their BPO department, valued at €1.5 million, started in May 2016, and points. Eduardo Ruiberriz, Division Director at Ayesa was the firm selected to after three months Endesa’s quality assessment Enel by Ayesa, with the team there handling provide personalised service to came back as satisfactory, with company repre- additions, deletions and contract modifications, sentatives expressing as much when they met as well as billing and collection. The team electricity company Endesa’s with the Ayesa team who had been allocated also prepares ad hoc consumption and billing major accounts, including com- the project. reports. At the project’s midway point - although panies listed on the IBEX index two one-year extensions are being considered and top-performing Spanish Over eleven months, - the business line manager reports that the businesses. transition from the previous provider has been 20,000 phone calls and complicated, but that the quality standards required by Endesa are being achieved. In Vega del Rey (Seville), where the headquarters 120,000 emails have The service is currently provided to over 1,000 of Ayesa’s BPO department are located, there major accounts (which cover around 100,000 are fifty employees who attend to the needs been answered supply points) and 2,700 SMEs (with 35,000 faci- of the largest companies in Spain, from textiles This is the first specific front-office contract for lities). Since the start of the project in July 2016, and telecommunications multinationals to food large clients that the group has undertaken. The the team has taken 20,000 calls, responded to companies. These are Endesa’s VIP clients, aim is to provide an exclusive service to com- 120,000 emails and managed 30,000 contract, which the company ‘looks after’ by providing panies who exceed over 5,000 energy supply billing and collections requests. exclusive personalised service. The contract,

On behalf of Endesa: Arturo Sanz Fernández Cuevas, Subdirector of Key Accounts Marketing and Support; Juan Antonio Gil To- rrubias, Subdirector of Support and Commercial Qualityl; Jorge del Río Díez, Market Intelligence and Business Planning Manager; Silvia González Ibáñez, Endesa SGP Coordination Team; and Patricia Casero Cerro, Endesa SGP Coordination Team.

On behalf of Ayesa (BPO area) Eduardo Ruibérriz de Torres Sánchez, Division Director; Joaquín Sánchez Díaz, Project Leader- ship Team; David Mesa Jiménez, Departmental Line Manager; and Diego Moreno Basallote, Service Supervisor.

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Our internationalization is unstoppable: the name of Ayesa can now be heard in six languages and the prestige of our work spans 40 countries. We now have more than 120 expatriates around the world, but to keep growing we need to have people willing to advance professionally, championing important projects anywhere in the world. Being part of the elite is at your fingertips. If you are interested, please contact us at: [email protected] and join us. A new contract in Lima consolidates leadership in Latin American subway sector >> Ayesa awarded project to delling five stations and modernising the works in various fields, adding another layer of expand Line 1 in partnership with electrical and rail signalling system. According complexity. With Line 1 remaining in operation to Javier Rodríguez, Country Manager for Ayesa throughout the works, a challenge is also pre- TMB (Transports Metropolità de Peru, “we have maintained Ayesa’s supremacy sented in terms of operational security. Barcelona) with a value of $6.8 in all the major link-up facilities from the last million. five-year period, and are forecasting constant High-capacity growth in our future”. This circuit was used by 320,000 people in 2016, The company’s investment in the South a level of demand that was not originally expec- American market continues to generate major ted until 2035. Thanks to the planned expansion contracts for them, consolidating Ayesa’s International experience work it will be able to transport up to 500,000 position as the leading Spanish engineering firm passengers per day, with a train every three mi- in the urban transport sector. The firm’s good Since Ayesa began its ambitious nutes instead of the current six. These updates work has earned them a new contract working internationalisation process more than will resolve one of the two main problems cu- on the Lima Metro, which is expected to double fifteen years ago, its metro engineering rrently faced by the city of Lima, given that the contract portfolio has only continued the capacity of Peru’s infrastructure. More volume of private traffic is growing at an expo- to grow. Out of the nine countries in specifically, Ositran has awarded Ayesa and TMB nential rate. Other major South American metro which it has overseen projects of this systems that the company has worked on inclu- type, five – Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, de Lines 1 and 2 of the Panama Metro, Line 1 of The Peruvian subway Colombia and Peru – are located in the Quito subway system, and the Lima Metro South America. Norway, Saudi Arabia, system will remain in Line 2 project. Ayesa arrived in Peru in 2010 and India, and of course Spain complete currently has several major projects under way operation throughout the list, with tram contracts held in Algeria, Morocco and Mauritius. there, including supervision of the Chinchero the works, presenting International Airport in Cusco, supervision of the an operational challenge South Peru Gas Pipeline Project, the EPC project With regards to the expansion of the Lima for the Intipampa photovoltaic solar plant, the the Comprehensive Supervision of Investment Metro’s Line 1, the biggest challenge is cons- Master Contract for Enginee- in Additional Rolling Stock and Supplementary tructing the substructure and superstructure ring Services in Block 131 Works for Line 1 of the Lima and Callao Electric required to double the capacity of a line that will with CEPSA and for Mel- Mass Transport System. It is valued at €6.8 remain in use throughout the project. chorita Plant Services million and will involve 35 months of work, mea- “We are going to need top levels of stringency with Peru LNG, as well ning that the Group is active on projects for both and precision to efficiently achieve the high as for Engineering lines that are currently being worked on in the technical standards required and meet the ne- and Manage- capital. The project that they have won involves cessary deadlines for the launch of the service ment Services supervising the acquisition and testing of 20 while working on the tracks, stations, yards and in Block 192 five-coach trains and 39 additional carriages, the shops of a functioning metro system,” he adds. with Pacific Fco. Javier Rodríguez adaptation of new additions to the lines, remo- The contract also includes the supervision of Energy. Country Manager Peru

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Ayesa to design Seville tram Supervision network expansion of a pumping >> The Andalusian capital’s City Council has awarded the company station in a contract to expand the network out to the Nervión shopping area, and the Special Plan out to Santa Justa train station. Ecuador

Ayesa will be the firm to take the reins on length, and comprises five stops. The aim is Ecuador was one of the last South American Seville’s long-awaited tram network expan- for it to operate as a shuttle service between countries to host Ayesa. Nevertheless, it has sion project. The Andalusian capital’s City the city centre and the main public transport become a source of major contracts for the Council have awarded them the contract services: the inner and outer city buses, su- firm, both in engineering and technical sectors. for providing consultancy and technical burban trains and the Seville Metro network. One of the most recent contracts that the assistance during the drafting of the Special It transported over four million passengers company was awarded here is the financial Plan and the Standard Strategic Environ- during 2016. The new service out to Nervión management and supervision of works on the mental Assessment on the tram platform at will add 1.2 kilometres to the Andalusian La Pradera pumping station in Guayaquil and San Bernardo-Santa Justa (since this is not tram network, and will link San Bernardo with the supply line towards the future Las Esclusas Wastewater Treatment Plant. Ayesa will provide a 65% contribution to work on both facilities, including technical, economic, financial and legal supervision, in partnership with the Colombian company Proeza. The project is being carried out by the Spanish company Acciona for the Municipal Water Company of Guayaquil. It is receiving funding from the EIB and the pumping station alone has a budget of $23 million. Having started last May, the works are expected to take 18 months. José Ramón Delgado, Country Manager for Ecuador, is keen to emphasise that “from a structural point of view this project is a tricky one, as the station is located on marshland where water levels are practically at ground level. This is where we are going to have to construct panels of over 20 metres”.

Tunnel Ayesa won the installation of this project, ten-

Sevilla Metrocentro’s route. dered for $2.5 million, thanks to the experience shown by the company in large-scale hydraulic included in the city’s General Plan), as well the shopping malls currently located along works throughout our fifty-year existence. as the first phase of the construction project the Avenida de Luis Morales and the Sánchez The group will also oversee the provision of between the aforementioned San Bernado Pizjuán Stadium. technical assistance for the supply line to the station and the Nervión district. Alongside this, the Special Plan will include Las Esclusas Wastewater Treatment Plant. This an analysis of the extension to Santa Justa line will pass through an urban area with a high 1.2 kilometres will be train station, which the current General Plan population density “which complicates the considers to be one of the city’s main inter- construction process due to services possibly added to the length of the modal hubs. Space is reserved in this plan being affected”. Bidding for this project has Metrocentro, which was for the workshops and just finished, and it is hoped engine sheds circuit. that it will start towards commissioned in 2008 Ayesa will also the end of this year. carry out archaeo- According to Project The project is valued at €363,000 (incl. VAT), logical checks to Director Fernando Vi- and it has a 20-month maximum lead time. pick up on any tores, “the microtunnel The Metrocentro is a public transport system possible sites from the pumping which traverses Seville city centre. It came additional station to the into operation in 2008 between the Prado to those treatment plant de San Sebastián and Plaza Nueva. The first located out- will be around Ignacio Hinojosa José Ramón Delgado extension was added in 2011 out to San side of the 4,500 metres in Bernado. It is currently two kilometres in circuit. Consultant Delegate length.” Country Manager Ecuador

Ingenio_8 Thirteen years under the sun Large-scale projects

>> With the creation of the Elmya-affiliated E&A subsidiary, yet another The aim of Ayesa’s Energy, Mining and step is taken towards addressing the complete life-cycle of energy plants Industrial Systems Division is to position itself “on large-scale projects, or through EPC contracts. contracts of over €1 million in engineering, which require a total investment By virtue of its multidisciplinary nature in the in all phases of plants using parabolic trough exceeding €50 million”, says division renewables sector (and particularly in terms technology. These are extremely capital- head José Antonio García Bermudo. of solar energy), Ayesa has positioned itself intensive plants which need to be built to tight as a strategic engineering solution. Since it deadlines, meaning that significant enginee- carried out its first project in Spain thirteen ring knowledge is required. Companies such years ago, the company has participated as ourselves which are equipped to handle that are currently ‘hooked up’ to the network nonstop in the construction of ‘green’ energy projects like these are few and far between, in Spain, providing everything from basic to facilities. What is more, it has managed to as skills are required in mechanical, electrical, in-depth engineering services, to supervision export its know-how, and is currently winning and technical and engineering support across contracts in Africa and South America, two the property. The latest contract to be won of the main focal points for investment in the Ayesa taking part in in this sector was in South Africa. The plant world today. These contracts include technical one hundred megawatt is called Ilanga, and will have an installed due diligence for several plants in Morocco, capacity of 100 megawatts - twice the power where the company is also technical advisor Ilanga solar thermal of Spanish plants. Ayesa has a competitive for the country’s energy agency (Masen), and advantage over other firms in the sector due it carries out the same role for the Mezquite project in South Africa to its multidisciplinary nature, its internatio- wind farm in Mexico. Its most far-flung desti- nal presence – with 15 subsidiaries located nation to date has been the Philippines, where and even chemical engineering,” says José abroad – and the proven experience it has it carried out technical due diligence for two Antonio García Bermudo, Head of Energy, acquired throughout its 50 years of life, not to solar farms. Within the solar energy sector, Mining and Industrial Systems. Consequently, mention “the size of the company, its human Ayesa has also installed numerous solar ther- Ayesa has participated in the construction of capital and financial strength”, as highlighted mal facilities. “In Spain, we have participated around half of the 50 solar thermal plants by García Bermudo.

Taking the plunge with ‘turnkey’ contracts A new area of activity for Ayesa is ‘turnkey’ renewable energy projects (or EPC), a field in which it started work through E&A, the subsidiary which was recently created in partnership with the Seville firm Elmya. The first photovoltaic facility that they will undertake together is Intipampa, in the Peruvian region of Moquegua. The plant will have a capacity of 40 megawatts, and is sponsored by the French energy group Engie (formerly GDF Suez), which won the project by public auction having offered the most competitive energy production costs. It is hoped that the new plant will be commissioned in 2018, following an estimated investment of $55 million. E&A will oversee the entire project, except for the supply of modu- les and the investment and structural aspect. The company commenced work at the start of the year, and the targeted lead time is ten months. Francisco Espinar, E&A Managing Di- rector, highlights that numerous bids are being offered in South America; four 10-megawatt facilities have been put to tender for example, with each José A. García Bermudo requested as a Division Director Solar thermal plant of Soluz Guzmán, located in Palma del Río, Córdoba. ‘turnkey’ project.

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Finally, he went on to talk about the workforce “Ayesa is prepared to as a cornerstone of the company’s future. “Our challenge is to be able to understand that the secret to success lies in our employees, and compete in a globalised and our commitment. In order to compete with the big companies, we have to fly the flag higher sophisticated world” than they do”. Revitalising Ayesa The President of Ayesa, José Luis Manzanares Japón, pointed out the keys to “revitalising” the company, and >> The company closed in May having reached a new contracting record facing up to a world which “is changing at a of almost €100 million, with a 28% increase in production. dizzying rate”. One of the keys he mentioned was the urgent need to “inject bureaucracy

On the 29th June, Ayesa brought together May 2017, up 25% on the same period last with an iron-clad discipline, an awareness of around 200 relevant managers from all the year. The Vice President highlighted the exce- economical behaviour, and the mindset of a business areas and countries in which it llent management work of country managers traveller, because the world is out there waiting operates in order to assess the company’s and financial directors on an international for us”. development over the first half of the year. level, as well as praising During the meeting, Vice President José Luis their teams, who are Manzanares Abásolo said that the company facing the challenges “is more prepared than ever to compete in presented in each a globalised and sophisticated world”. He country head-on. He added that Ayesa had experienced “its finest also noted Panama moment”, having established a presence in 16 and India as current countries and positioned itself on some of the growth drivers. Despite leading projects worldwide through its size the Spanish economy and innovative capabilities. improving, he indicated These projects include the Intipampa pho- that investment in infras- tovoltaic plant, the implementation of Enel’s tructure here continues management system in America and the to fall, however, progress Airbus digital factory, which were all examples is being made in the shared by their respective directors. private IT sector and In terms of growth over the first five months “the arrival of federal of the year, Manzanares informed those pre- funds seem to have sent that production had increased by 28%. made several regional What is more, the technological, engineering authorities more active, and consulting services group noted a new which means we can be Above: José Luis Manzanares Abásolo, Vice President of Ayesa; below: José Luis Manzanares contracting record of almost €100 million to optimistic”. Japón, President, during his speech.

Ingenio_10 Panel 1: Group’s International Strate- gy. Realities y perspectives. Nagi Chehab, International Vice President; Isidoro Carrillo, International Director for the Americas; Rafael Fernández Cantillana, , Se- nior Corporate Vice President; Pablo Gómez Falcón, Regional Director ROW; and Bertrand De Fonvielle, President of Kervillen.

Panel 2: Project Management. Im- pact in our operations. Rosalío Alonso, General Director of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Antonella Satta, Deputy Head of Engineering (Civil Engineering and Architecture); Miguel Ángel Fernández, Consulting Project Manager for the Andalusian Finance Department; Marisa Chabaneix, Divisional Director of Infrastruc- tures and Airports in Europe, Asia and Africa; Sebastián Ribot, Director of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Barcelona; and Pablo Ruiz, Director of Commercial Systems in the Utilities, Telco and Industry Management team.

Panel 3: Our technological assets Margarita López Sánchez, Worldwide Public Sector Director; Juan Pavón, Educational Project Manager (Consulting); Santiago Blanco, Smart Infrastructures; Jose María Pedraza, Head of BPO; Luis Garrido, Director of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Xavier Güell, Head of Industrial Engineering; and Manuel Gavira, Director of Operations (Aeronautics and Defence).

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Corporativo: Ayesa’s Corporate Managing Director, Germán del Real, explained company policies for travel expenses, processing systems and subcontracting.

Project with Enel in America: Manuel Fernández, Director of ERP Solutions (Consulting), gave a general outline of the Enel project, one of the company’s most significant involvements.

Intipampa Project: Fernando Ríos was responsible for presenting the current status and details of the photovoltaic plant which is currently under way in Peru

Integrated : Factoría Digital Digital Factory Pedro Sanz, the General Director of Aeronautics and Defence at Ayesa, and Smart Infrastructures Energy Efficiency Manager Elena Sánchez explained ‘Digital Factory’ the aeronautics giant Airbus’ ambitious new project combining technology and engineering.

Ingenio_12 We travel to INDIA

Ayesa has become one of the key players in become Ayesa’s largest branch outside of focused his work on helping the India team the global rail industry. Whilst the company Spain, the corporate services department sent use corporate tools in the various proces- undertakes extensive activities in other colleagues out there to support this growth ses related to department-specific tasks. countries such as Panama, Peru, Ecuador and and contribute to the implementation of and The Corporate Communications Manager, Saudi Arabia, its large project portfolio in India compliance with the various working procedu- Marta Beteta, also went out to gain first-hand makes this one of the most promising cou- res and systems. Following the launch of the knowledge of Ayesa India’s future facilities, ntries for Ayesa in terms of potential under SAP financial model there, Javier Monclova and to share information and procedures with the direction of its Country Manager, Mariano from IT and José Nogales from Admin went various managers that will help us to maintain Álvarez. As noted in the previous issue of out to help and support the branch carry out the Ayesa brand in this country. There was Ingenio only a few months ago, two major their first monthly economic closure for the also the opportunity during the trip to see contracts have been signed to provide design month of May. The Director of Engineering Spanish expats and employees who are now consultancy for the public service features, Human Resources, Domingo Ortega, has living out there. architecture and construction of the corridor between Adheri (East) and Dahisar (East), as well as general engineering consultancy services for the Line 7 corridor (Andheri East - Dahisar East) and the Line 2B corridor (DN Nagar - Mandale) of the Mumbai Metro. These activities come in the wake of many others which were already under way, with the branch having consequently seen their human team grow spectacularly over the past year to a workforce of nearly 300 employees. With India having therefore

Visiting India: Above: Ruhi Ali, Diego Cámara, Marta Beteta and Tushar Bhardwaj.

Top left image: Ramiro López, Nerea Barriuso, Diego Cámara, Aitor Sardón and Ana María Bielza.

Top right image: Javier Monclova, Chandan Yadav, José Nogales, Nitin Jain, Shahzad Alam and Anil Singh.

Bottom left image: Spanish workmates visiting India dining together with the Spaniards who work on the Ayesa projects in the country.

Bottom right image: Nidhi Sood, Saurabh Chauhan, Domingo Ortega, Ruhi Ali, Neetu Sharma and Mayank Gaur.

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Top-class aeronautics networking

Aeronautics representatives from Ayesa companies in order to establish a strategy travelled to Le Bourget (Paris) to attend for collaboration for future Airbus provider the sector’s biggest international trade fair, selection processes. It was also an which took place between the 23rd and opportunity to make contact with potential 25th June. There were 2,370 exhibitors at new clients. Image shows AAC Manager this 52nd edition, which provided Ayesa Pedro Sanz next to Bertrand De Fonvielle, Air Control (AAC) with an opportunity to President of Kervillen Consulting, in front of meet with large European engineering a Safran engine.

400 employees contribute to the Repsol Project

The company delivered a variety of They helped to compile a large group Repsol products - guides, umbrellas and of questions, which was used to train a aprons - to 400 employees in a show of system which will be provided to users of thanks for their contributions to questions the new digital version of the Repsol Guide which were incorporated into a cognitive in the future. Image shows three Group technology project which Ayesa is employees receiving thank-you gifts for undertaking for the Spanish energy group. their contributions.

Experts in BIM technology

Having been invited by Autodesk to attend Madrid on the 15th June, with 60 the BIMagination conference, Director professionals from the infrastructure sector of Technology and Processes in the Civil in attendance. Also invited were companies Engineering and Architecture department Ferrovial and LSK. Thanks to their use of Fidel San Emeterio gave a speech on this technology, Ayesa has won significant ‘Ayesa’s Outlook on the Infrastructure contracts such as the Amador Convention Market and BIM Environment’. The event centre in Panama and the Riyadh Metro in took place in the Melia Castilla hotel in Saudi Arabia.

With the Canal Foundation for Innovation Day

María Luz Moreda, Hydraulics Department The day was led by screenwriter and Manager at Ayesa, took part in the first actor Federico de Juan and took place at Innovation Day organised by the Canal the Foundation’s headquarters (C/ Mateo Foundation, which coincided with World Inurria, 2, Madrid). The aim was to use Environment Day. The event, which took examples to show how innovative ideas can place in Madrid on the 15th June, was be made a reality. Altran and the Technical attended by experts in innovation, water University of Madrid joined Ayesa on the and business. panel.

Seville: SAP epicentre for 2017

Eight hundred representatives from 300 Innovation, artificial intelligence and the companies in the Spanish SAP user group use of cognitive technology in companies’ (AUSAPE) met in the Fibes Conference evolution towards digital models were just and Exhibition Centre in Seville for the some of the hot topics covered during the thirteenth edition of their Forum. This was event, which took place on the 21st and the first time that the event has taken 22nd June. Anabel Polo from Consulting, place in Seville, as Zaragoza has always who attended as an Ayesa representative, been chosen as the location in the past. is pictured.

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Ayesa wants to create a South American level technology. After having signed the high-level technology knowledge hub in agreement with Father Andreu Oliva, El Salvador which provides services to the the chancellor of UCA El Salvador, rest of the region. For this, the company Executive Vice President of Ayesa, has signed a collaboration agreement Arancha Manzanares said that it with the university to complete the represents “a clear commitment by the study programme of future Salvadoran company to the technological future of engineers with specialist training in high- El Salvador”.

Sponsorship of the SAP Summit in Bogotá

Ayesa was one of the companies Internet of Things, blockchains and machine sponsoring the SAP Executive Summit Day, learning. Ayesa was represented by the which took place in Bogotá on the 16th Head of Consulting for South America, March. This is one of the South American Isidro Fornos, and the Head of Consulting technology industry’s most iconic events. for Colombia, Luis María Ruiz del Portal, On this occasion, the focus of the meeting who presented several of the company’s was on how to take advantage of new SAP implementation success stories to the and emerging technology, such as the audience.

SE-40 visit with the Minister for Infrastructures

Work on the second of Seville’s ring roads The Spanish Minister for Infrastructures, – the SE-40 – is progressing well. Íñigo de la Serna, visited the works at the The next sections to enter service will Seville turnoff. He was accompanied by be the Coria del Río-Almensilla and the companies overseeing the project’s Almensilla-Espartinas sections. After that, infrastructure with Francisco Javier García the stretch between the towns of Alcalá de Martín, Deputy Operation Director of Civil Guadaíra and Dos Hermanas will open in Engineering and Architecture, attending on March 2018. behalf of Ayesa.

Pioneers of FP Dual in Andalusia

The secondary school ‘Alixar’, situated vocational training with internships for the in the town of Castilleja de la Cuesta two-year course. The first class, composed (Seville), has awarded Ayesa a plaque in of thirteen students, completed their recognition of their contribution to FP Dual studies this year. Corporate Managing in Andalusia. The company has been at Director, Germán del Real Urbano, accepted the forefront of bringing Microcomputer the plaque, handed by some of the Systems and Networks students into this teachers and FP Dual managers at the original new format, which combines Sevillian school.

Desalination conference in Japan

On the 17th February, the JDA Forum 2017 The International Vice President, Nagi – one of the biggest international events Chehab, and the Head of the Desalination in the desalination industry – took place in Department, Carlos Martín Freixá, sat on Tokyo, organised by the Japan Desalination the panel. The fact that Ayesa was invited Association (JDA). Ayesa was one of the by Japan, a world leader in this field, is companies invited to the event to present yet another example of how the Company their experience of this type of project and has caught the attention of international their vision for the future. organizations.

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New generation of outstanding engineers

>> The company is launching their seventh employment announcement The engineer stresses that “the most valua- to recent graduates in Industrial and Civil Engineering. Each year the ble thing about the Talent Programme is that it shows the company placing faith in young Talent Programme receives over 250 CVs from candidates. people, who are given a voice right from the start and who offer a fresh view of things. Because, as we say in engineering, the latest Ayesa is now the second biggest private mentor and a tutor for guidance throughout thing is never the last”. employer in Andalusia, and its widespread their time here,” explains Aguilar. The company is looking for engineers who international presence makes it an even Ayesa receives around 250 CVs each year are a good match for the organisation, with more attractive prospect for the most from young people who have just finished good qualifications, language skills, and the highly-qualified ‘millennials’ throughout potential for working internationally. Spain. And, according to Rafael Aguilar, The company is joined The required skills include a good client Head of Selection at Ayesa, new genera- focus, the ability to work in a team, reliabi- tions of professionals are indeed looking for by an average of 40 lity and honesty, a commitment to service, exciting experiences outside of Spain and workers every month innovation, flexibility and the ability to adapt wanting to work on large-scale projects. to change. The Talent campaign has been run every year since 2011 at the Universities of Grana- their degrees and who are looking to secure Record recruitment year da and Seville, the Technological Campus of a job with a good company. The company Ayesa closed 2016 with 4,065 employees, an the University of Navarra (TECNUN), Comillas selects around a dozen of these applicants 11% increase on the 3,657 of 2015. Of the

Pontifical University, Carlos III University of to enrol in the Talent Programme. Julio Ro- total workforce, around Madrid and the Technical Universities of Ma- dríguez is one of the people behind this plan 3,000 are in Spain and drid and Catalonia. The aim is to recruit the to attract and retain outstanding employees. 2,400 in Seville, where best students from the Industrial and Civil “I was one of the top three graduates from the company’s central Engineering courses, who are then made an the Civil Engineering course in Granada, and offices are located. attractive offer. graduated with Honours. Ayesa called me to It carries out five “The idea is that they receive all the neces- enrol me in November 2013, after finishing hundred selec- sary training to become project managers in my Master’s. I started in Seville and then I tion processes the future. They will work on various projects moved to the Madrid offices, to the Landsca- each year with different departments so that they pe Engineering Department, with Guillermo (not including Rafael Aguilar learn more quickly, and they will also have a Martínez as my tutor”. BPO). Recruiting Manager

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Annual disabilities event

>> For the second year running, the Ayesa Foundation recognises organisations which work to support the entry of people with disabilities into employment with the Emprendis Awards.

The Ayesa Foundation has created an un- Toda Velocidad, Aprona, the Andalusian and emphasised that the award-winning missable event for the disabilities sector Autism Federation and the TAS Foun- projects from the first event had enabled in Andalusia with the Emprendis Awards. dation. In addition to this, President of “93 people with disabilities to enter the For the second year running, the orga- the Ayesa Foundation Ana Manzanares, workplace, with another 355 people nisation awarded €50,000 to ten social also awarded an individual prize for a experiencing improved conditions, both entities from Andalusia which support career in social integration to Francisco personally and professionally”. In addition the inclusion of people with disabilities in Herrera del Pueyo from Proyecto Hombre to Emprendis, the foundation supports professional workforces. Sevilla, for working to help people with people with disabilities with social This year the awards went to Aspro- addictions for over 25 years. Manzanares technology applications and by awarding velez, Upace San Fernando, the Seville highlighted the importance of the work bursaries and grants. Association for Asperger’s and Down carried out by these organisations to sup- “We want to create a fairer world”, con- Syndrome, Anidi, Taller de la Amistad, A port these groups within our community, cluded Manzanares.

Emprendis Awards: On the left: Ana Manzanares awarding the prize to Francisco Herrera from Proyecto Hombre Sevilla. On the right: the President of the Ayesa Foundation with representatives from award-winning bodies from the 2017 event.

Sandbox, a new way of viewing maps

As part of the #estudioSTEM (‘STEM study’) programme, which hopes to spark students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), the Ayesa Foundation has developed the Sandbox project. This system uses augmented reality to simulate topographic maps by projecting images onto a raised surface of white sand, with the changing altitudes of the maps contoured into the sand. It can also be made to rain across the area, and flows of water can be simulated according to the inclination of the surface. Other functions such as draining and total flooding are also available.

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“The closure of the Guadalquivir river was what awakened the awareness of our poverty and ended up being a symbol of a new spring” >> The President of Ayesa, José Luis Now that we have a new Seville which can deal stop being afraid of working abroad, develop Manzanares, says that knowledge is with what April brings throughout the rest of ourselves a fiscal framework that is attractive to what changes society as he pre- the year, now, he stated, is the time to continue investors and above all, we need to realise that making progress. “We need to create jobs, the target is never reached”. sents the Spring Review (‘Revista de Primavera’) and introduction to Seville’s Semana Santa Easter celebrations organised by the radio station Cadena Ser.

This year the broadcaster chose the group’s founder to be featured in an ‘A Tribute to Spring’ (‘Elogio a la Primavera’) report, a role that has previously been filled by public figures such as journalist Iñaki Gabilondo and weather reporter José Antonio Maldonado. Reminiscing about his childhood, he talked about the especially hard post-war winters in Seville, and how the arrival of spring always meant the end for the cold and the flooding in his birthplace of Triana. “All of a sudden we would go from being poor to being rich. There were probably many places in the world where the standard of living was better than ours, but no one experienced the same miracles as we did in the springtime”. In the same vein, the Ayesa President added that during Semana Santa, “a poor community, who at times had hardly anything to eat, dedicated everything they didn’t have to celebrating and honouring God and the Mother of God”. But Manzanares “always felt that, as every new springtime arrived in Seville, it would not finish in June but would continue throughout the year”. He also says he became fanatical about progress was after his father took him to see the Tapón de Chapina – a diversion dam which stopped the city flooding – in 1950. However, “When the Guadalquivir river closed, and all its laden donkeys were no more, it stopped being a symbol of a new spring and made us aware of our poverty”. For Ayesa’s president, knowledge is the key to what has turned modern-day society around. “Major societal changes have been achieved with very little. The miracle comes from the elite of working society and our intelligence”.

“I dreamed of a spring “The miracle comes “Above all, we need that would not end in from the elite of to realise that the June but would continue working society and target is never throughout the year” our intelligence” reached”

Ingenio_18 Ayesians around the world of the company with him out to some of the Have you ever been to Ecuador? Or most major consulting projects currently South America? under way. I’ve never been to Ecuador – I have only worked in Mexico and Panama in South What made you move abroad? America, and for fairly short periods of I got asked if I wanted to go, and after ten time at that: never more than six weeks at years in comfortable roles within Ayesa, I a time. In Mexico I worked on the Aque- thought I should say yes. I have watched duct II project, and in Panama we were colleagues move abroad and spend seve- assessing a business opportunity that ral years in America. Now it’s my turn. didn’t come to anything in the end.

What do you hope that this new des- What project are you going to work on? tination will bring you, both persona- To start with I am going to work on all the lly and professionally? ACO projects in Ecuador, although I will be I think that this is a good opportunity focusing mainly on the Finance Ministry to do something different to what I am project, which is the most important project Antonio Calsina used to. I have never lived abroad and, that we currently have under way there. Consultancy Manager in Ecuador family aside, I am looking forward to it. I’m feeling a mixture of giddiness, hope and What has been your journey with Ayesa? Antonio (Sevilla, 1964) decided to take a big responsibility. It is going to give me the I arrived at ACT in 2006, where I took over step forward with his career by moving to opportunity to work with colleagues who I the Navarra Canal Telecontrol project. Ecuador. It is here, a country where Ayesa would otherwise hardly ever have spoken Since then I have worked on many different has been operating since 2013, that he is to. Getting to know a new place is interes- projects in the Water sector. I have been starting his international adventure. He will ting too; Ayesa is much more than just its Head of Water and Environment, but most take his extensive knowledge and experience office in Seville. recently I was Smart Operations Manager.

best memories and friends are from. Many been really beneficial on a professional of them are still with me today in Panama. level, since I have got back into my sector: Then I worked on the Zaragoza International construction and building work. Expo Project, which was hard for me on a personal level because it was the first time What is the most valuable part of your that I had had to leave Seville. However, it experience in these countries? didn’t take long for me to realise how many Over here I have felt valued and respected, advantages there were to that experience. although you have to change how you think I also worked on the Pelli Tower, but that and adapt to your surroundings. Working wasn’t really what I was expecting it to be. outside of your home country opens your And that was when the opportunity presen- mind, and getting to know professionals ted itself to take the plunge and go to a new with different nationalities is a completely country, to a major project like the South new experience which you need to soak up Peru Gas Pipeline. I am currently working on to be able to develop new skills. the Amador Convention centre in Panama and the Superior Technical Institute (ITSE). What is the biggest thing you have got Manuel Domínguez out of being in Panama? Specialist GIS Technician How did your arrival in a new country go? What interests me the most is getting to My arrival in Panama went very well, and I know all its beaches and inland areas. There got an amazing welcome since many of my are a lot of contrasts in this city, as with so With a degree from the Higher Technical colleagues here are good friends of mine many places in South America, and you can School of Architecture in Seville, Manuel from previous projects. Moving is hard - see a huge social divide here. In terms of (Seville, 1979) is currently the Technician for even more so with two babies and a house food and drink, coming from Spain and Peru, Planning and Cost Control in Panama, where completely packed up into suitcases. this country doesn’t even compare: you just he has been stationed for little over a month. But I did the difficult bit during my first have to look at the sheer variety of fruit here. How has your career progressed at Ayesa? posting, and bringing my wife and sons One of my favourite areas is the old town, My first project was the New Heineken Fac- across on this trip has been, and continues possibly because it reminds me of Cádiz tory in Seville, which is where some of my to be, so important. My arrival here has back home.

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The Panama Metro Line 2 Con- sortium, which Ayesa is a part of, Voluntary work in Panama celebrated Recycling Day on the 20th May by building a children’s play area inside the Camino de Cruces National Park, a protected area located opposite the project’s Prefabrication Plant. Various materials were donated by the companies that are involved in building the subway, and Yajaira Enith Serrano, Jaime Blanco, Daniel García and Francisco Gomez were the volunteers, along with their families.

Ayesa India’s Cricket Team We have many sports enthusiasts here at Ayesa, which means we often receive superb images such as the one shown here: the Ayesa India cricket team geared up for one of its regular Saturday matches in all its official kit. Cricket is the most popular sport in India and naturally we also have our own amateur teams here at Ayesa. Following on from this, we would love for you to send us more pictures of you playing your favourite sports.

Author: Alberto Otal

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