OHL was awarded the first building project in Colombia

OHL is expanding its presence in Colombia with the execution of a new project, the construction of the National Museum of Historical Memory of Colombia, in Bogotá. This is the first building project that the company has undertaken in the country, at the request of the Virgilio Barco National Real Estate Agency (ANIM, by its Spanish acronym) and is worth nearly 15 million euros. The initiative is conceived as recognition of the peace consolidation in Colombia and as a symbol of moral and historical reparation in memory of the victims of the armed conflict that took place in the country. 

The museum comprises five exhibition halls, spaces for the creation and exhibition of artistic works, an archive dedicated to Human Rights, a documentation center, a multipurpose theater and other additional areas in which cultural activities will take place, distributed throughout almost 15,000 m² of surface area and divided into six floors above ground, in addition to a seventh floor located underground. The design of the future museum was chosen from more than 70 proposals submitted for an international architecture tender in 2015. 

With the construction of this building, unique and historic in its nature and use, OHL is making headway in the execution of construction projects in Colombia, a country in which it has been present since 2008 and where it has undertaken various civil and industrial work initiatives, such as the construction of the Medellín tramway, the first modern tramway system in Latin America; the Quindío road section, which ends in the Crossing of the Central Andes; the improvement of the Málaga-Los Curos road in Santander; and the construction of El Rincón Avenue from Boyacá Avenue to Carrera 91, in Bogotá. 

In the industrial and mining sectors, OHL has carried out, among other projects, the construction of a cement plant with capacity for 1.4 million tons of cement per year, and the expansion of the Cúcuta aqueduct, which improves access to drinking water for the nearly one million inhabitants of Cúcuta, Los Patios and Villa del Rosario, in the department of Norte de Santander.

Computer graphics of the future National Museum of Historical Memory of Colombia.