The monastery of Santa María la Real de Oseira, in San Cristovo de Cea (Ourense), opened at the end of March a new pilgrim hostel, completing the previous existing one in the monastic complex, which was also refurbished by EXTRACO, commissioned by the Axencia de Turismo de Galicia (Galician Tourism Agency). Last 28th March, the [...]

EXTRACO has completed the urban development of the Business Park of Morás (phase B) in Arteixo (A Coruña). With a surface of more than 600,000 m2, this is the biggest business park of Northern Galicia, and it has been promoted by Xestur, the entity responsible of the soil management of the autonomous region. The construction [...]

The new administrative complex “Espazo Amizar”, built by an EXTRACO-Gómez Crespo joint venture for the Xunta de Galicia, has been operating full since last February, after 280 staff members of the Social Policy, Employment and Equal Opportunities Department were successfully transferred and all planned services were made available to the public. Previously, more than 4,000 [...]

EXTRACO’s Project “ALFILLER: Valorization of asphalt plant recovery filler for the development of cement-based eco-products”, submitted in the category SMEs/entrepreneurs, has been awarded a prize by Renault Group Fundación España and the Club de Excelencia en Sostenibilidad at the “9th Awards to the best practice in Sustainable and Accessible Mobility”. It is a R&D&I project [...]

Year 1 ESO students of Secondary School IES de Soutomaior (Pontevedra) visited Arcade’s wastewater treatment plant, whose management and maintenance is in hands of a consortium made up by EXTRACO and Asteisa. During the educational visit on 16 December, 87 Biology and Geology students participated in this visit and they studied in situ the final [...]

The activities planned within the 2021 7th Civil Engineering Meetings, held on 19 December at the Church of Santiago, in A Coruña, concluded with a Christmas concert. The CARABÉ choir performed an a capella program —fully made up by Christmas carols and music— with pieces that ranged from the Renaissance to the current date. Mr. [...]

At the North of Lima (Perú), the new sanitary landfill of the province of Huaura is now fully operative, available to a population of over 190,000 people. Thanks to its implementation, the habitants of Hualmay, Huaura, Santa María, Vegueta, Caleta de Carquín and Huacho districts no longer need to dispose their waste without being separated [...]

EXTRACO won the second prize in the “I Contest of Innovative Materials of Galicia”, organized by the Galician Innovation Agency-GAIN, through the Materioteca de Galicia. The concretes and mortars made with Galician bivalve shells, developed by EXTRACO with the companies Galaicontrol and Serumano, together with the Construction Group (gCONS) of the University of A Coruña [...]

Extraco has been included, for the first time, among the Galician “smart companies” in the Ardán Galicia 2020 Report, which annually offers an analysis of the economy in the community from a business perspective. This study, conducted by the Free Trade Zone of Vigo in collaboration with the Ardán Chair of the University of Vigo [...]

The new building for the regional office of the “Contraloría General de la República” (the Auditors’ Court of Panama) has been opened in September in the district of Las Tablas, province of Bocas de los Santos, in Panama. This two-story building with a glazed façade divided in three parts has elevators and adapted accesses for [...]