In the United States, where it has been present since 2006, it is carrying out major rail infrastructure projects such as the Purple Line in Maryland, its largest contract to date. The contract, awarded in a joint venture for a total of €2.21 billion, will transform transportation in the Washington, D.C., area by adding a light rail system with an integrated transit system. This project will avoid the displacement of 17,000 vehicles per day.

The company also has major projects in Florida and New York. Of particular note is the South Corridor Rapid Transit in Miami. With a contract value of more than 320 million euros, it will provide users with 14 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) stations that can be fully converted to Heavy Rail Transit (HRT) systems. In New York, the company has a significant presence in the city’s subway system. It is currently working on a nearly €200 million renovation of five stations on the IRT Flushing Line.

Railway projects in Latin America

OHLA’s portfolio of rail projects in Latin America extends to Mexico, Chile and Panama. In the latter country, work continues on the extension of Line 1 of the Panama Metro to Villa Zaíta, a project carried out in a joint venture for a total of 180 million euros, which will allow the extension of 2.2 km of infrastructure. The work will also include a terminal station at the northern end of the line, with a capacity of 10,000 passengers at peak times. The company will also build a bus interchange with a capacity of more than 8,000 passengers and a parking lot with 800 spaces.

Meanwhile, in Chile, where OHLA has been carrying out major works in the railway sector for more than 40 years, it announced the award of new works in the city’s metro system. Specifically, it will carry out civil works, piques, galleries, and tunnels in section 4 of Line 7, for a total of almost 80 million euros.

Europe, major rail corridors and a benchmark in high-speed railways

OHLA began its activities in Spain in 1911 and has since expanded them to countries such as the Czech Republic, Ireland, Sweden and Norway with relevant sustainable mobility projects. In Spain, it is currently building the Palencia-Alar del Rey high-speed rail project, worth more than 90 million euros, and the Arroyo de Santa María-Navalmoral de la Mata platform, part of the Madrid-Extremadura-Portuguese border high-speed rail line, awarded in a joint venture for a total of almost 60 million euros.

Railway corridors in the Czech Republic

OHLA’s footprint in the Czech Republic is very relevant from the railway point of view. Its contracts include its participation in a joint venture in the reconstruction of the Brno-Královo Pole railway station for more than 120 million euros; the modernization of the Havířov railway station, in which it participates in JV; the first phase of the new line D of the Prague Metro, the electrification of the railway section between the towns of Strelice and Zastávka, valued at 120 million euros, while progress is being made on the reconstruction of the Vsetín railroad station, on the double line of the Adamov- Blansko section and on the railway modernization project for the Sudoměřice-Votice line.

Relevant is OHLA’s position in Sweden, where it started its journey in 2017 with the award of the project to modernize the railway line between Lund and Arlöv for 295 million euros in a consortium. This is one of the most innovative railway digitalization projects in Europe.

These contracts have been complemented by others that have made the company the largest contractor in the Stockholm metro, with four projects on the metro’s Blue Line worth a total of nearly 330 million euros.