Governor of Florida visits OHL USA headquarters in Miami as a token of appreciation for job creation in the region

The Governor of Florida, Rick Scott, visited the OHL USA headquarters in Miami. During the ceremony, where he presented the positive employment data in Florida, he highlighted the important work carried out by OHL from the standpoint of employment generation and activity. In this regard, Rick Scott highlighted the 800 jobs that OHL USA currently provides in Florida.

After the opening of the Orange Line Metrorail line, which has enabled the Miami metro to reach the international airport (the first construction contract for a Spanish company in the U.S. rail sector), another of the major works that OHL is carrying out in this region is the interchange of the two busiest highways in Miami. Once completed, this infrastructure (made up of four overlapping levels of traffic lanes that will reach a maximum height of 32 meters) will be an icon of modernity in the city of Miami.

With respect to the latter project, it is noteworthy that Rick Scott’s visit coincided with the opening to traffic of the first ramp of the interchange constructed entirely with voussoirs that will save a significant amount of time for the drivers who had to leave one of the two highways to join the other up until now.

Medals for job creation

The Governor of Florida, who held a private meeting with Lauro Bravar, director of South Region of OHL USA, Agustin Arellano, chairman of OHL Arellano and Jose Fernandez, chairman of OHL Community Asphalt, OHL USA subsidiaries, also presented a medal to Lauro Bravar, in recognition of the efforts of OHL USA on job creation and to the OHL employee, John Baarda, who has worked at Community Asphalt for over twelve years, for his outstanding work coordinating traffic maintenance activities on the Miami highways interchange project, who had already earned the repeated expressions of gratitude from the FDOT (Florida Department of Transportation). The project, which is now in its third year of construction, has managed to maintain a traffic density of 100,000 vehicles per day without any accidents or delays.