OHL, rewarded for its construction of Rey Juan Carlos Hospital in Móstoles

OHL has received the Best Municipal Public Works prize at the VII edition of the annual award granted by the Madrid Association of Civil Engineers, for its construction of Rey Juan Carlos Hospital in Móstoles. The works, awarded by IDC Salud, concessionaire company of this Hospital, constituted a huge challenge for OHL which, with logistics and constructive planning, has managed to construct nearly 95,000 m2 in less than 17 months.

The event, held at Casa de América, was attended by Ana Pastor, minister of Public Works; Julio Gómez-Pomar, state secretary for Infrastructures, Transport and Housing; Liana Ardiles, general manager of Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment; Pablo Cavero, councilor for Transportation, Infrastructures and Housing, Autonomous Community of Madrid; and Paz González, delegate of the Urban Planning and Housing Area of the City Council of Madrid, amongst other authorities.

The prize was collected from the hands of Pablo Cavero by Rafael Martín de Nicolás, chairman-general manager of OHL Construcción in Spain, on behalf of those rewarded for management of the works. In his words of thanks, he mentioned that the prize “symbolizes our constant concern towards contributing to Spain’s engineering progress and prestige, both nationally and internationally”. In relation to Rey Juan Carlos Hospital, which provides service to nearly 200,000 Madrid residents, he affirmed that “its design and efficient engineering will help improve the management of human, technical and energy resources”.

In turn, the councilor of Transportation, Infrastructures and Housing of the Autonomous Community of Madrid indicated that “the project has been rewarded for its complexity, given that it constitutes a new model for hospitals, integrated into its environment in a sustainable manner, offering citizens the best healthcare in the towns south of Madrid that are covered by the hospital”.

OHL, a world reference in hospital works

Rafael Martín de Nicolás during his speech, highlighted OHL’s experience as the world’s leading construction company in hospital infrastructure. Consequently, he stated that the Group “has spent the last 20 years constructing hospitals at an average rate of 1,000 square meters/day”.

Its construction activity in this field began in 1930. Since then, OHL has executed more than 150 new hospitals, covering a total constructed surface area of over six million square meters, with more than 60,000 beds. In addition, it has carried out 200 renovation and extension projects and approximately 100 health centers.

The Group’s policy for international growth has enabled it to be in charge of valuable hospital construction projects in Portugal, Panama, Iraq, Costa Rica, USA, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Qatar and Canada. OHL, a reference contractor worldwide, has exported its experience both in the construction of hospitals and financing structures for infrastructure concessions, undertaking the construction of the world’s largest hospitals, to include the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) in the province of Quebec, Canada, as a public-private partnership.

From left to right: Rafael Martín de Nicolás, Alejandro Vizcaíno, Pablo Cavero and Ricardo Trujillo.