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editorial / presidents 04
50 years of news (1968-2018) 06
the first projects (1968-1982) 12
a giant leap forward (1983-1992) 16
major infrastructure (1993-1999) 22
the new millennium (2000-2007) 28
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Presidents
and the story continues
editorial
Carlos Roa Juan de Arespacochaga Emilio Magdalena Pelayo Martínez (TIFSA)
1968 | 1971-1983 1968-1971 1983-1988 1983-1989
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T
o celebrate Ineco’s 50th anniversary, this special issue of Itransporte is
dedicated to looking back on the most important events of the company’s
Special thanks also go
history as recounted by some of the key people who participated and wit- to all of those friends
nessed it. Their photographs, memories and perspectives have helped us
and teachers from
to put together a summary of everything that has happened over these
five decades, a time in which we went from being a small consulting firm with shareholder companies Vicente García Reyes Fernández (TIFSA) Antonio Alcaide Antonio Gracia
five people on staff to become an international engineering company with over past and present, namely 1988-1993 1989-1999 1993-1996 1996-2000
3,000 employees and a presence in five continents.
Adif, Renfe, ENAIRE and
Ineco’s history is the story of a company that has embraced evolution, Aena, and other Spanish
always oriented towards the design and modernisation of transport systems government institutions,
and infrastructure, and with a desire to provide solutions without neglecting
economic, social and environmental aspects. It is also the story of a large number who have helped us
of professionals who, thanks to excellent training, determination and enthu- grow and take part in the
siasm, have formed teams that have enabled us to achieve our current success.
building of one of the
In the midst of today’s digital revolution, looking back on the past has meant best transport networks
remembering all of those who lived through and made these experiences pos- in the world❞
sible. Some are no longer with us. Others are still working with us or in other
fields. To all of them, whether or not they are mentioned in these pages, we
extend our thanks for making it possible for us to celebrate this anniversary.
Special thanks also go to all of those friends and teachers from shareholder 50th anniversary José Eladio Seco
2000-2002
Antonio Fernández Gil
2002-2004
Juan Torrejón
2004-2009
Fernando Palao
2009-2010
companies past and present, namely Adif, Renfe, ENAIRE and Aena, and other
Spanish government institutions, who have helped us grow and take part in advisory team
Pilar Gª Alemany, Lidia Amigo, Miguel
the building of one of the best transport networks in the world.
de Bernardo, Gabriel Díaz-Roncero, Juan Carlos
Ceballos, Luis Chocano, José Ignacio Gálvez,
The knowledge that we have gained has enabled us to overcome challenges Fco. Javier Gallego, José Ángel Higueras,
and difficult times. Looking back on our history, from every crisis - and there María Luisa de la Hoz, Casimiro Iglesias,
have been some very significant ones - we have always emerged in a position of Bárbara Jiménez-Alfaro, África Jiménez, Ernesto
strength by taking advantage of opportunities and responding with efficiency, Labarta, José Mª Llorente, Adrián López,
courage and rigour. We have been able to transform and adapt to the times, José Luis Mangas, Rafael Molina, Sergio Navarro,
and we will continue to do so. Luis Negrete, Francisco Olmedo, Julio Resino,
Roberto Serrano, Rafael Torres, José Mª Urgoiti,
Irene Thomas, Jara Valbuena.
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If we continue to maintain this capacity for reaction and evolution, we will
go far. The journey has only just begun.
Ignasi Nieto Pablo Vázquez Jesús Silva Isaac Martín-Barbero
2010-2011 2012-2014 2014-2017 2017-present
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5 0
YEARS
From left to right,
the company’s deed
of incorporation; a
daily work order from
1975; civil engineer
Carlos Roa, first
OF NEWS president of Ineco;
the first headquarters
of the company;
1968-2018 and, lastly, Ineco
employees in 1977.
20 July 1968 1983
Tifsa created with
1986 Spain joins the European Economic
Community: EEC legislation promotes new
1994
The newly created
Ineco founded
Pelayo Martínez Regidor planning activities, such as information Aena, Ineco’s majority
at the helm shareholder,
Tifsa (Tecnología e Investigación Fer-
and environmental studies. COMMENCES its
roviaria S.A.) is incorporated with an ini- aeronautical activities
tial share capital of 50 million pesetas, firm Consultécnicos, selected over 20 oth-
er consultancies from around the world, 1990 WORK BEGINS
as a result of Renfe’s interest in having
a subsidiary specialising in the research wins an international tender valued at 2 ON The Libertadores
Carlos Roa declares that his intention in promoting the and development of proprietary railway million dollars. To the left of the image,
Project for railway
founding of Ineco is “to create a stable and permanent technology. Its first staff of 17 people, Juan Torrejón, from Ineco; in the centre,
is organised into four areas: Rolling Tito Rueda, president of FNC; on the right, integration in the
entity that will remain at the highest scientific level and Emilio Magdalena, president of Ineco.
stock, Facilities, Track and New Tech- southern cone,
exercise maximum practical wisdom in terms of trans- nologies, with a Structures department
1987 promoted by the
port economics and coordination”. added in 1984.
First national office opens
Ministry of Transport,
Ineco opens its first office in Barcelo-
1968 1976 na and, shortly afterwards, another in Renfe and the fifth
First headquarters Devastating earthquake 1984 Renfe becomes Seville, where the company provides centennial society.
With the objective of providing ser- disrupts the work of quality control services for the con-
the sole shareholder of struction of the site that will house the
The aim is to integrate
vices to Renfe and the Latin American Ineco technicians in
railway sector, Ineco, based in Madrid, Guatemala Ineco and transfers its Universal Exposition of Seville in 1992. all rail networks in Aena, a public entity created in
becomes the first Spanish consultancy On Wednesday, 4 February 1976, projects team, generating The 1987 financial year closes with a
Argentina, Bolivia, 1991, becomes a shareholder
specialising in transport consulting, turnover of 2 billion pesetas. of Ineco in a capital increase
economics and planning. The company
at 3:01 a.m. local time (9:01 a.m. a significant increase in Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, that begins in October 1993
in Spain), an earthquake measur-
is founded with a share capital of two ing 7.5 on the Richter scale strikes engineering work. Peru and Uruguay, and closes in January 1994.
1988 On 9 December, After a third increase in 1995,
million pesetas and 400 shares, with Guatemala, with an epicentre lo-
1985 through specific
160 subscribed by Renfe. Its first head- cated 160 kilometres northeast of the Council of it increases its stake in Ineco
quarters are located at No. 44 Calle contract with improvement works on to 61%. This heralds the end
the capital city. The tremors dis-
the World Bank Ministers agrees that
Santa Isabel. rupt the work of an Ineco team four major corridors. of the company’s latest crisis,
that is in the country working on all high-speed lines coinciding with the general
1972 a railway infrastructure moderni- should be built using 1992 recession affecting the coun-
New offices zation plan, which then becomes Plane crash in the Alps try after the events of 1992,
In 1972, after a capital increase and
international gauge. from which it will once again
a reconstruction plan. None of the 1992 begins tragically for Ineco: on 21
changes to the initial shareholders, technicians are among the 23,000 The government January, a flight from Lyon to Stras- emerge in a strong position.
Ineco overcomes a difficult financial fatalities or 76,000 injured. considers extending bourg crashes, killing Jose Mª Guillén At this time, Ineco has
situation; the staff grows from 5 to 26, Carmona, director of the Signalling 214 employees and Tifsa, 68.
making it necessary to move to new of-
the gauge change to the Projects and Works department, along Thus begins a new field of ac-
fices at No. 2 Calle Orense; the follow-
1981 BOGOTÁ The company signs a contract with Ferro- entire network, but in with five Spanish engineers and two tivity: aeronautics. The com-
METRO STUDY carriles Nacionales de Colombia (FNC) in pany moves its offices to No.
ing year, a second office opens at No. the end decides against French technicians. All were on a work
12, and finally, the company moves to Colombia, the first contract led by Ineco to trip to investigate automatic driving 138 Calle Doctor Esquerdo in
PRESENTED TO THE it for technical and
...
the 2nd floor of No. 4, where it will re- be financed by the World Bank. The com- systems for the Cercanías Móstoles-El Madrid.
main until 1994. COLOMBIAN PRESS. pany, in association with the Colombian budgetary reasons. Soto line in Madrid.
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1. Next to the first
5 0
Tifsa logo, company
president Reyes
Fernández Durán on her
trip to China (1995).
2. Javier García de Muro
and José Mª Mangas,
YEARS expatriate employees in
Colombia (1999).
3. From left to right:
OF NEWS Mariola Alcalá, Ana
Jiménez and Rosa
González in the new
1968-2018 1 2 3
offices in the Egeo
building (2001).
1995 1999 2003 2008
1998 2007
TIFSA: visit to China Work on the railways Ineco volunteers help The first Corporate
The president of Tifsa, Reyes Fernán- New Ineco of Colombia clean up 6 tonnes of oil The Carlos Roa Classroom Responsibility Plan
dez Durán, visits a rolling stock fac- headquarters Ineco provides Ferrocarriles del Norte spilled in Galicia created as a forum for
tory in China in June as part of a trip Ineco purchases a building at de Colombia (FENOCO) with operational The company pays the expenses for technical debate
to promote the Spanish railway in- No. 138 Paseo de la Habana. assistance in its freight transport for the transport and cleaning materials The aim, as the general director of
The new headquarters has the commissioning of the Atlantic rail
dustry. The president of Renfe, Mercè of a group of 30 volunteers who spend Ineco Antonio Monfort explains,
room for 500 employees.
Sala, its international director, Miguel network concession, involving the relo- 15 and 16 February in Galicia to help is “to create a permanent forum
Corsini, the president of Alsthom cation of expatriate technical staff. clean up the oil spill from the sinking for technical debate in which spe-
Spain, Eduardo Montes, and the CEO of the oil tanker Prestige. Over those cialists and experts can freely ex-
of CAF also attend. In 1994, the Ger- 2000 two days, they are able to remove press themselves”. The Classroom From now on, the relationship with va-
man consultancy De-Consult and Ineco commits itself to more than 6 tonnes of oil from the is named “in honour of Carlos Roa, rious NGOs is formalised, with an am-
the French company Systra become the internet and new Galician coast. the beloved and greatly missed first bitious collaboration program. Ineco
shareholders with 24.5% each. president of Ineco”. adheres to the United Nations Global
technologies
In May of this same year, the Compact and in 2009 it will launch its
Ineco signs a contract with the public 2005 first issue of the corporative maga-
enterprise Retevisión (now RED.ES) to SPRING PARTY first Equality and Integrity Plans. In the
zine itransporte is published,
1995 Carlos Roa dies: carry out consultancy and technical as-
initially on a monthly basis.
image, a water supply project suppor-
sistance work on the implementation of ted by the company in Same (Tanzania).
“He was our teacher”, advanced telecommunication networks
says Javier Pérez Sanz, and services with the aim of examining
2007
2009
and analysing the development of new Tranvía Honourable mention
General Director
technologies. de Tenerife, for Sants Station
of Infrastructure 1999 Ineco buys the Despite concerns over the so-called
WITH INECO AS a
Management at Renfe, German and French
‘millennium bug’, the turn of the new mil-
lennium passes without the anticipated shareholder, opens
during a memorial stakes in Tifsa, 49% problems, with the company’s computer
its first line.
held on 22 February at of the total, and the systems remaining unaffected.
the Spanish Railways 2008
Ineco-Tifsa Group is 2001 Ineco, the Ministry of
Foundation. created. According New offices in Public Works’ ‘in-house
the Egeo building On 10 June, Ineco-Tifsa Group throws resource’
to its president, José New offices are opened in the Egeo its 3rd Spring Party at an estate on the The company’s president Juan Tor-
1996 On Wednesday, Eladio Seco, with this building to accommodate the compa- outskirts of Madrid, attended by some rejón explains that, after the absorp-
28 may, Madrid’s ‘Pasillo deal, “we hope to take ny’s expanding workforce. 800 people. Several events take place, tion of Tifsa, “conditions are right to On 23 April, the team of the project to
including an outdoor meal, mini bull- expand technological capabilities expand the Sants Station in Barcelona
Verde’, consisting of advantage of our fight and an awards ceremony to hand and use synergies in other modes of receives an honourable mention at the
a tunnel between potential with maximum 2002 Ineco works on out trophies to the winners of com- transport, such as roads and ports. 2009 Construmat Civil Engineering
pany football, basketball (in the image, Adaptation to European and Spanish Awards. In the image from left to right,
Atocha and Príncipe Pío performance and help Walvis Bay airport in
the Alitas basketball team), mus and legislation determines the corporate Marcos Peña, Dragados; Miguel Ferrán-
stations, is opened: this create intermodal Namibia; while Tifsa paddle tennis championships. Despite structure of the company and makes dez, Ineco-Tifsa; Ricardo Franco, Dra-
is Ineco’s first major relationships that designs a refurbishment the rain, spirits are not dampened dur- Ineco-Tifsa Group the Government’s gados; José Miguel Bueno, Ineco-Tifsa;
ing activities that included human ta- ‘in-house resource and technical Javier Dahl and Armando Brigos, Adif;
comprehensive works are UNDOUBTEDLY project for Madrid
management project. extremely attractive”. Chamartin TRAIN STATION.
ble football, a wind tunnel, boxing with
giant gloves, quads and paintball.
service’ similar to other European
public enterprises”.
Michael Ashiabor, Ineco-Tifsa; and Car-
los Ventura, Adif. ...
8 — itransporte itransporte — 9
1. Ignasi Nieto, president
of Ineco, signing a
contract for the expansion
of Kuwait Airport (2011).
2. Javier de Cos, general
5 0
director of International,
signing the technical
proposal for the Makkah-
Madinah high-speed
contract. Behind,
from left to right,
YEARS Juan Luis Monjarás,
Manuel Benegas and
José Solorza (2012).
OF NEWS 3. The current president
of Ineco, Isaac Martín-
Barbero, at the Transport
1968-2018 1 2 3
Internationalisation
Observatory (2018).
2012 2015
2010 Ineco and Tifsa merge: the new company, Ineco 2017 On 20 April, 2017On 30 July,
Ecuador’s Strategic Implementation
boasts a workforce of 3,000 employees. Mobility Plan of BIM in Spain the AVE high-speed work begins on the
line to Seville, the preparation of the
2010
2012 first in Spain, and Master Plan for Dammam
In memoriam: Javier
López de Pablo, manager A year of large
a project on which airport, the third
of the Seville office contracts Ineco had worked largest in Saudi Arabia,
The signing of the Makkah-Madinah since the 1980s, which will run until 2027.
high-speed contract, the largest in the
history of the company, takes place celebrates its 25th
on 12 January during an official cer- birthday.
emony at the Intercontinental Hotel
in Riyadh, in the presence of Saudi 2018 The Ministry
Arabian and Spanish dignitaries and
of Public Works
representatives from the 14 partners On 13 December, Ineco presents the 2017 A SPANISH-DUTCH has launched for its
of the winning consortium, of which president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa,
The manager of Ineco’s Seville
Ineco is a member. with the final document of the country’s consortium, of which group of companies
In Spain, meanwhile, the Figueras- Strategic Mobility Plan, which it had On 15 July 2015, the BIM Commission,
office, Javier López de Pablo (sec- Perpignan high-speed line is opened,
Ineco is part, signs a Innovation and
been preparing since 2011. In the im- headed by Ineco, is set up. In the im-
ond from the right), dies suddenly representing the final stretch of the age, from left to right, team members in age, on the left of Minister Ana Pastor, contract in Amsterdam Internationalisation
at the age of 65. An aeronautical Madrid-Barcelona-French border
engineer by profession, he joined
Ecuador: Pablo Fuente, Rafael Alcayde, Jesús Silva, President of Ineco, and for the design of a new plans, all of which
line. This same year, the company is Óscar Díaz-Pinés, Ignacio Alejandre and Jorge Torrico, the company’s deputy
the company in February 2005 to awarded two of its most important in- Javier Gómez, project leader. director of projects.
terminal at Schiphol involve Ineco in their
take charge of the office. In the
image, during a meeting of na-
ternational contracts: together with airport. preparation.
its British partner, Capita, the design 2016
tional managers held on 22 July at of a section of the HS2 project in the 2014 IN MAY, AN INECO Works supervision for
Ineco’s headquarters in Paseo de United Kingdom, and, in Brazil, along- Mexico City’s new airport 2018
la Habana. From left to right, Ed- side the engineering company EBEI, TEAM BEGINS WORK on the An international consortium, consist-
uard Albors, manager from Cata- First meeting of the Transport
lonia; José Francisco Laguna, from
the supervision of works on the final Orat of Abu Dhabi’s new ing of Ineco, Ayesa (also from Spain),
section of the Rodoanel Màrio Covas Internationalisation Observatory
Valencia; Javier López de Pablo, road project in São Paulo. In the photo, airport terminal. Aecom (USA) and Cal y Mayor (Mexico),
On 18 April, the secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Julio Gómez-
from Seville; and Pascual Villate, win a four-year technical and admin-
Ineco engineers José Luis Pancorbo Pomar, chairs the first meeting of the Observatory, which is attended by the president
from the Basque Country. istrative supervision contract for the
and José Isidro Díaz. of Ineco, Isaac Martín-Barbero; general director of Transformation, Internationalisation
building of the passenger terminal and
2015 Ineco staff safe and Innovation, Eva Pulido; and director of Internationalisation and Commercial Intel-
air traffic control tower at Mexico City’s
ligence, Sergio Navarro. The meeting assessed the first actions of the Transport and
2011 after an earthquake new international airport. The contract
Infrastructure Internationalisation Plan 2018-2020, which is coordinated by Ineco and
includes the monitoring, supervision
Photo_andré lemes
Contract signing
hits Nepal on April. The and inspection of building works from seeks to promote the overseas activities of Spanish transport companies.
in Kuwait company donates to the the pre-construction phase to com- On the 6th of the month, the Ministry of Public Works presents a report on the
Transport and Infrastructure Innovation Plan 2017-2020 to the Council of Ministers.
Ineco signs a project manage- Red Cross to raise funds missioning. In terms of the contract
This report had been drafted and submitted the previous November by Ineco, which is
ment contract on 14 March for amount, it is the second largest inter-
the expansion of Kuwait airport.
for victims as it has been national contract in the entire history also working on a transport sustainability plan.
doing since 2009. of the company.
-
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50
T
he first work focused on multidisciplinary consult- With a scholarly and
ing studies incorporating engineering and involving charismatic personality,
Carlos Roa (in the centre of
the execution of preliminary road and rail projects,
the image) promoted studies
one of the most important of which was the Madrid- and reports on railways inside
Zaragoza-Barcelona-Port Bou high-speed project. and outside the country and
In 1973 and 1974, planning of the Madrid and Barce- undertook the first high-speed
study in Spain.
lona Cercanías networks began, and this work continues
The first projects
to this day. During those years, research work on mobility
at regional level was also carried out, including the master
plans for the Canary Islands in 1979, followed by the Balearic
Islands, Murcia, Castilla y León and the Basque Country.
1968-1982
During this period, Ineco designed several arterial rail-
way networks, such as those in Valencia, and produced
studies and projects for the networks of Santander, Gijón
and Vigo (1973), Madrid (1974), Jaén (1977) and Huesca (1978).
Particularly notable were projects in Seville, which included
the project and functional design of the Santa Justa station,
the La Negrilla freight terminal, tunnel works on the line in
the city centre and several Cercanías train stops. Numerous
freight studies were also carried out for
In the 1970s, Ineco experienced several changes in Numerous Red Nacional de Ferrocarriles Españoles
(Renfe). Julio Bermejo, a civil engineer who
shareholders, increases in staff and moves to new railway spent 22 years at Ineco between 1978 and
offices. The company went from having five members simulations 2012, explains: “At that time, studies were
carried out to optimise the transport sys-
on staff in 1971 to sixty-five in 1978. were carried tems of large steel plants: Ensidesa, Nueva
Montaña Quijano, Sidegasa. For Renfe, in
out with IBM addition to classic passenger corridor and
Hocus and GPSS freight focal point studies, work with ur-
ban planning was carried out on the ar-
programs, terial railway networks of half of Spain”.
including the By that time, technology had already
become an important work tool, and the
daily operation company was starting to develop its own
of Cercanías computer programs. Concha Rodríguez-
Portugal, an industrial engineer at Ineco
Madrid from 1972 to 2011, recalls: “One of my first
projects in 1974 which I particularly en- Arterial network planning,
joyed and for which we received high praise from Renfe, Cercanías plans and
freight studies were the
involved simulations of large freight stations with complex
main work of the time.
rail operations. At the beginning, we did the simulations
manually on scale models of the stations, using buttons for
trains and making calculations with mechanical calcula-
tors. We were the first to use the HOCUS and GPSS programs
on the Renfe computer”.
the 1970 “The movement of the urban and
Regarding the first computerised financial programs,
s Jorge del Fresno, an industrial engineer at Ineco from 1972
to 2010, explains: “We began using the programs, which were
written in BASIC, in 1976, with an HP30 4 MB programmable
suburban masses gives the railway
absolute superiority, and, for the great
the Madrid-Zaragoza- computer, the only one in the company, that cost more than
factories and cities of the future, the
Barcelona-Port Bou 700,000 pesetas. It was a very simple method that helped us
to calculate project costs. Even though by 1982, all accounting railway will play a very important role”
high-speed line had been computerised, the philosophy remained the same”.
Jose A. Fernández Gago, a civil engineer who has been at
Carlos Roa, in an interview for the ABC newspaper on
and international Ineco since 2008, highlights that “between the new devel-
opments launched by the Americans in the 1960s and the
5 December 1967, one year before the founding of Ineco
undertakings
...
academic research headed up by Mascareñas in Spain in
12 — itransporte itransporte — 13
...
the 1980s, Ineco stands out as the first company in Spain,
“We began using computerised back in 1975, to carry out economic/financial simulations ZAIRE
financial programs, which were written programmed in BASIC, as part of a León-Campomanes toll
Roa and a Renfe team
receive dignitaries
in BASIC, in 1976, with an HP30 4 MB road concession viability study”. from Zaire (now the
Democratic Republic of
programmable computer, the only one the Congo) in Madrid for
in the company, that cost more than The beginnings of high speed
In 1975, Renfe presented the first high-speed study in Spain,
the Kindu-Kisangani line
feasibility study.
700,000 pesetas” which was produced by Ineco. It included economic/finan-
Jorge del Fresno, industrial engineer cial and geological studies, an alternatives analysis and the
design of the final alignment. 13 years later, the govern-
ment prioritised the construction of the high-speed line
The Campomanes- between Madrid and Seville, meaning that the connection
León toll road between Madrid and Barcelona did not become a reality
concession study and until 33 years later, in 2008. In regard to this project, Agustín
the company’s first
Giménez, a draftsman at Ineco between 1973 and 2017,
logo, both from 1975.
recalls: “My first job at Ineco was the Madrid-Guadalajara
section, which we designed by hand using plans from the in 1997, a market study was conducted on the Belgrano
Army’s geographical department, provided to us by Topy- Norte railway line, commissioned by Ferrovías, the service’s
car, first with three alternatives at a scale of 1:50,000 and operating company.
finally with the selected alignment at a scale of 1:5,000”. In 1972, Carlos Roa and the general director Carlos de
Inza, together with Renfe engineers, carried out a ‘Study on
“To calculate demand
international undertakings
Ineco’s desire to work internationally materialised in stud-
the sixth project of Ferrocarriles de Colombia’, a study of
recommendations for the improvement of the Carare rail-
way line. This project was financed by the International Bank
for Ferrocarriles Nacionales
ies and reports on rail and transport in Latin America, for Reconstruction and Development, after an agreement
de Colombia, we purchased our
fostering the training of its technicians in Spain. Inter- was reached by Roa after a trip to Washing- first IBM PC in 1985, and used it
est in participating in the improvement of infrastructures Carlos Roa ton in March 1969, paid for by Iberia, then a
to develop a railway operation
abroad also took Roa and the Renfe team to Africa, where, shareholder of Ineco. In 1981, Ineco submitted
in 1975, a feasibility study was carried out in Zaire (now the promoted a ‘Feasibility and execution study for a pub- model which we called the Rail
Democratic Republic of the Congo) for the Kindu-Kisangani the export lic transport system in Bogotá’ to the Bogotá Traffic Model”
railway line. metro –the first international project carried
In the 1970s, Ineco began collaborating with institu- of Spanish out with its own resources, in conjunction Juan Canteli, civil engineer
tions in Bolivia, where a comprehensive transport study
was conducted between 1979 and 1980, and in Argentina,
experience and with the French company Sofretu (now Sys-
tra) and the Colombian company Consultoría
Venezuela, Honduras, Chile and Colombia with several dif- technology and y Sistemas– commissioned by the Mayor of
ferent studies and projects to improve transport, working
together with Renfe and ALAF. As ALAF’s general adviser,
his multi-modal Bogotá. Detailed feasibility and pre-design
studies were carried out for the Colombian
Ineco acted as a consultant for the International Bank for transport capital’s metro and its workshops area, with
Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), which opened a proposal for a priority line of 21.2 kilometres
the doors for the company to participate in and win public
vision in length with 23 stations, 35% on the surface
contract tenders in the first projects in Colombia and Brazil. and the remainder underground.
It was precisely in Brazil that the first international public Ineco’s presence in Colombia resulted in Ferrocarriles
project tender, ‘Operations, marketing and IT for Ferrovías Nacionales de Colombia (FNC) awarding the contract for
Paulistas del Estado de São Paulo (FEPASA)’, put out by the a feasibility study for a railway upgrade plan to an Ineco-
World Bank in 1976, was won and carried out between 1980- Consultécnicos consortium in 1985. The total budget of
1981. Ineco, with staff assigned from Renfe, was awarded this the project was 360 million pesetas, financed through the
study of railway operations, which involved the company’s World Bank. Isabel Lacambra, a civil engineer at Ineco since
entry into the country, where it would eventually, in the year 1987, joined this project: “I was assigned to Ineco from Fer-
2000, establish its subsidiary Ineco do Brasil. A number of years rocarriles Nacionales de Colombia in 1987 to participate
later, in 1987, a precursor study for a high-speed line between in the viability study and also to work on a study for the
Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo would be carried out (Trens rápidos Buenaventura-Bogotá Corridor. I worked on both projects
de passageiros de longo percurso Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo). until 1989 and it was there that I met Juan Torrejón, José
One of the first studies carried out in Argentina was Eladio Seco, Antonio Debesa and Juan Canteli, all of them
a profitability analysis of the implementation of a CTC Ineco expatriates, the first two with their families”.
EXPATRIATE EMPLOYEES system for Ferrocarriles Argentinos in 1978. In 1987, an The Buenaventura-Bogotá Corridor feasibility study
In the image, from left to right, Juan investigation into the Latin American rail transport market, included an analysis of the construction of a new section Bogotá metro
Torrejón, Ineco expatriate engineer focusing on the Southern Cone, Brazil and the Andean Al- to connect the Atlantic Network with the Pacific Network Francisco Fernández, ‘Franchis’,
in Colombia with his children, Jaime submitted a study for the Bogotá metro
tiplano, was carried out. Later, together with Ferrocarriles and provided a direct outlet from Bogota to the Port of Bue-
Morro from Ineco, Vicente Moreno in October 1981, after carrying out a
Argentinos and Renfe, a feasibility study was carried out naventura on the Pacific Ocean. Ineco assigned a total of 260
-
from Renfe and Antonio Debesa, also supplementary study on the Bilbao metro
an Ineco expatriate employee. in 1989 for the joint operation of interurban corridors, and, man-months to this contract over the course of four years. network for Ineco in 1977.
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neco strengthened its engineering and projects area,
and applied the latest cutting-edge methodologies and
simulation models to transport planning. For Guillermo
Vázquez, a civil engineer who joined Ineco in 1972
and continued to be associated with the company for
many years, “transport economics studies, in which Ineco
was a pioneer, were decisive in the evolution of Spanish
infrastructure. They were necessary for all decisions on
transport investment to be accompanied by consideration
of their economic consequences”.
Emilio Miralles, a civil engineer and external adviser
at Ineco since 2008, points out that during these years
A GIANT LEAP FORWARD
“the Madrid Regional Transport Consortium was the first
of its kind in Spain and served as a model for those that
would come later. Professionals from Ineco participated
in its creation in 1985-86, contributing experience that we
1983-1992
later applied to studies such as the regulation of a new
railway operation model in Brazil and the Oman Public
Transport Master Plan”.
Above: Enrique
Tifsa: the technological López del Hierro with
Francisco López at
Tifsa’s offices at No. 1
development of railways
The creation of the 100%-Renfe-owned Tifsa on 30 No-
Calle Capitán Haya in
1999. Centre and from
left to right: Fernando
Tifsa was founded in 1983; Renfe acquired Ineco and vember 1983 heralded the beginning of specialisation in Vegas, José Antonio
Álvarez, Carlos Loma
transferred its projects team in 1984; Spain joined the research and technological innovation in relation to track, and José Costales
rolling stock, safety facilities, signalling and railway traf-
EEC in 1986; and, in the same year, the NAFA project, fic control systems, an area in which the company has
(1984). Below: Mario
Jara in 2000.
the future Madrid-Seville high-speed line (1992), began. stayed on the cutting edge –since 2010 as part of Ineco–.
Tifsa’s –and later Ineco’s– contribution was epitomised by Leendert de Haan,
its work on ERTMS validation and verification. wearing a harness,
inspecting the roof of
the Bilbao airport.
Engineers not afraid of heights
The renewal of national gauge throughout the railway net-
work marked the beginning of Tifsa’s inspection and load-
testing work on numerous bridges and viaducts. Carlos
Loma, a technical expert on special projects employed at
Ineco since 1984, recalls: “When I started at Tifsa in 1984,
one of the requirements was not to be afraid of heights.
We worked for Renfe on numerous sounding campaigns
for metal bridges, some over 100 metres high. A year later,
inspection work began on concrete and masonry railway
bridges and load testing on the line from Tarragona to
Barcelona and France”. “Ineco has inspected more railway
Since 1992, bridge and viaduct inspections have been
part of the company’s usual work. Some of the more no-
bridges in Spain than anyone else,
table work on high-speed lines included the monitoring far more than 10,000. It has unique
work on the Arroyo del Valle and Arroyo de las Piedras specialisation in the load testing
viaducts (2006-2010), and the load testing carried out on
the 1980 the Contreras (2010) and Ulla viaducts (2015) and, more of metal bridges”
s recently, on the entire Chamartín-Torrejón de Velasco sec-
Leendert de Haan, civil engineer
...
tion (Madrid, 2017).
Tifsa, Renfe, NAFA,
the Mediterranean
Corridor and
joining the EEC
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roofs
In recent years,
Ineco has
increased its
...
MADRID-
roof-inspection From all of this experience, Leendert de Haan, a civil a dream come true. We had fulfilled our part of the chal- BRAZATORTAS
work at stations engineer who joined Ineco in 1998, notes that: “The lenge and there we were travelling the distance between MAP
such as Zaragoza-
company has inspected more railway bridges in Spain Madrid and Seville on an infrastructure that we knew The NAFA project
Delicias (in the
than anyone else, far more than 10,000. It has unique down to the smallest detail. We monitored the speed reduced the
image), Atocha,
alignment by 100
Chamartín and specialisation in load testing of metal bridges. In 2005, by counting the number of overhead line poles that we kilometres by
Toledo; airport several load tests were performed on special viaducts passed every minute, and the camber of the curves by passing through
terminals such as
at 360 kilometres per hour on the Madrid-Lleida AVE, a noting the angle of the surface of the water at the top of Brazatortas instead
Bilbao and Ibiza;
of Despeñaperros.
and on other historic record in Spain. Another milestone was a study a glass on the table”.
For the first time, 3D
buildings. carried out in 2016 using 3D models to detect possible Making the high-speed network a reality created digital cartography
flood risk areas along the 2,351 kilometres of high-speed or boosted new activities in the teams engaged in the was used in Spain.
line in operation. The latest innovation that we’ve in- construction phase, such as works management and Below, staff at the
Hornachuelos and
troduced is the use of drones to carry out inspections in technical assistance of all kinds: track assembly in Mora work bases.
places that are difficult or dangerous to access”. tunnels, stations, electrification, etc. The first track
maintenance work was also started, a task that con-
tinues to be carried out throughout the network: “On
From NAFA to the AVE 21 April 1992, opening day, we began to work with
Renfe on the maintenance of the Madrid-Seville high-
high-speed line to Seville speed line. There were about 20 of us, including people
from the three work bases (Mora de Toledo, Calatrava
photos_elvira vila
In 1986, Ineco was commissioned by the Ministry of and Hornachuelos)”, says Rodolfo Velilla, a high-speed
Public Works and Transport to carry out basic and con- maintenance expert employed at Ineco since 1988. “We
struction projects on the first stretch of the Madrid- participated in the creation of a maintenance model,
Seville high-speed line, between Getafe and Córdoba, first for Renfe and later for Adif, a model that we are
a project that was called New Rail Access to Andalusia currently using for all of the high-speed lines that we
(NAFA, in Spanish). A team of young engineers from maintain for Adif as technical assistance”.
the company tackled this challenge, which
Above: Iván was managed by professionals from Renfe.
Navamuel,
Carlos Loma,
Elena Jerez
For Juan Barrón, a civil engineer employed at
Ineco since 1985 and a former president of
In 1988, the
Government
the modernisation
“Our first technical assistance
and Elena
Agudo in 2011.
On the right,
GIF, “the transfer of the entire Renfe project
team to Ineco was key because a significant
increase in engineering was added to the con-
decided to of the railway
With Renfe as sole shareholder, a period of railway
project was in 1989 on the works
Pedro Benito,
Víctor Duarte sulting work, in business volume, the most implement modernisation began, with the aim of increasing speed. for the Seville Expo”
and Marisa de significant. It was a watershed moment”. New weldable points were installed and numerous
la Hoz NAFA One of those young engineers was Marisa
the NAFA track upgrade projects were drafted. The workforce José Mª Urgoiti, civil engineer
engineers.
de La Hoz, a public works engineer employed project on began to grow: from about 80 people (between Ineco
at Ineco since 1986: “We could not have had and Tifsa) in 1983, the number would reach almost 300
better leaders than Jorge Nasarre and Santia- international in just 10 years.
go Rallo, who, thanks to their knowledge and
vision of the future, enabled us to complete
gauge: Ineco Jose Mª Urgoiti, a civil engineer at Ineco since 1987,
currently deputy general director of National Opera-
all infrastructure and track projects within a adapted the tions, highlights the challenges of that time: “The first
record time of nine months”.
The work included the design of the 320-kil-
section in less steps in what was called ‘track quality’ were difficult
because we started with practically no experience, just
ometre alignment and a study of passenger than a year with what our teacher Ulpiano Martínez Solares, who
demand on the new line (commercially named came from Renfe, could show us. Our first technical
AVE, ‘Alta Velocidad Española’). Juan Canteli, an assistance project was in 1989 on the works for the
“We could not have had better engineer who worked at Ineco for 27 years, highlights Seville Expo”.
leaders than Jorge Nasarre that “the study brought to light the existence of a sig-
nificant demand niche between Madrid and Ciudad Real,
About the tools used in the 1980s, Rafael Herrera,
a public works engineer at Ineco since 1982 and, to-
and Santiago Rallo, who, thanks which is why Renfe implemented regional high-speed day, deputy director of Operations Coordination, recalls
to their knowledge and vision services between Madrid, Ciudad Real and Puertollano”. that: “The tools were very limited: ball sticks to detect
Ineco opened its Seville
Two years later, at a meeting of the Council of Ministers whether or not the track was well consolidated by the
of the future, enabled us to in December 1988, the Spanish Government made the sound when the top of a sleeper was struck, rail curve
office in 1988 as a result of
its work on the AVE high-
complete all projects within decision to implement NAFA in international gauge, in- measuring handles to determine correct alignment, speed line and Expo site,
providing quality control
a record time of nine months” stead of Iberian gauge. Ineco adapted the Getafe-Córdoba width and camber rules and topographic levels to check
services for the works in
section to the new track gauge in less than a year. Re- longitudinal levelling”, adding that “with the data from the five public pavilions and
Marisa de la Hoz, public works engineer garding those days before the opening of the line in 1992, the rail-curve measuring handles, Ulpiano Martínez and works management of the
Pedro Benito, a public works engineer at Ineco since 1986, Javier Gómez designed a alignment rectification calcula- car parks. A rail access line to
the site was also designed
recalls: “In one of the journeys prior to the opening, we tion program that became one of Ineco’s first technologi-
and the company provided
travelled together with members of the Government and cal developments. It was used for years, and ended up technical assistance
...
representatives from the construction companies. It was being sold to Renfe, which called it RIPER”. at Santa Justa station.
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In the 2000s, this experience led to Ineco’s providing
Adif with “technical support for the coordination of track Preliminary studies spain joins
europe
renewals and comprehensive station refurbishments, and Spain’s integration into the European Economic Com- 12 June 1985:
the construction of new freight and port terminals”, says munity meant that Spanish legislation would need to be the then prime
Miguel Solana, a railway expert and surveyor who has aligned with EEC standards, with new environmental and minister of
Spain, Felipe
been at Ineco since 1990. social perspectives being superimposed on the technical González,
aspects. Francisco Cifuentes, a public works engineer, signed the
manager of the Public Works, Renfe and Other National Treaty of
the Mediterranean corridor account, employed at Ineco since 1988, comments: “Plan- Accession to
the European
The best example of increased traffic speed was the Medi- ning became a public process in which the developer Economic
terranean Corridor. As explained by Manuel Corvo, a rail- enriched proposals with contributions from other public Community
way maintenance expert employed at Ineco since 1990: authorities and citizens. Ineco participated in this new at the Royal
Palace in
“At the end of the 1980s, we began to work on a complex concept, which involved the introduction of preliminary
Watercolour of a Madrid.
Mediterranean infrastructure because freight, long-distance, regional studies and environmental impact studies”.
Corridor and suburban trains travelled at different speeds and Starting in 1989, Ineco began to plan the high-speed
substation. with intense traffic loads. Adapting conven- network commissioned by Renfe and the Ministry of Pub-
tional mixed-traffic alignments was a mile- lic Works and Transport with its first preliminary stud- “Planning became a public
stone and we managed to increase speeds Ineco has been ies: firstly, those for the Madrid-Zaragoza-Barcelona line, process in which the developer
from 160 to 220 km/h”.
“In 1995, the Ministry awarded Ineco a
responsible followed by those for other lines, such as new routes to
Burgos, Segovia, Valladolid; the Basque Y (1996); Galicia
enriched proposals with
power reinforcement project for the Valen- for the (Peñota bypass) and Asturias (Pajares bypass); the Levante contributions from other public
cia-Vandellós section, which included the
maintenance line; Atlantic Corridor: Vigo-Porto; and many others en- authorities and citizens. Ineco
refurbishment and modernisation of five compassing almost the entire network.
traction substations, the construction of of the participated in this new concept,
“The power reinforcement of the eight new ones and the construction of a
Mediterranean which involved the introduction
Valencia-Vandellós section was the first
new 132/20 kV distribution substation and
all of the power lines to the substations”, Corridor since Freight of preliminary studies and
environmental impact studies”
major power contract we had and it was explains Ernesto Labarta, an industrial en-
the mid-1990s
Throughout the entire history of Ineco, considerable work
gineer at Ineco since 1997, manager of the has been done on freight transport, air cargo, rail access
also orientated towards the high speed. Energy Supply, Electromechanics and Over- to ports and multimodal transport. The company has Francisco Cifuentes, public works engineer
Since then, we have participated in the head Line area. “It was the first major power contract we produced numerous feasibility studies for new logistics
had and it was also orientated towards the implementa- areas for the transportation of freight on land, sea and
dimension calculation and design of tion of high speed. Since then, we have participated in in the air. In fact, the first job (see photo) –a report signed
almost all of the electrification of the the dimension calculation and design of almost all of by Carlos Roa on a study conducted by a French firm
Spanish high-speed network” the electrification of the Spanish high-speed network”. (Sofrerail)– concerned the transportation of phosphates
in the Sahara (1968). In the 1970s, numerous reports on
Ernesto Labarta, industrial engineer the transportation of hazardous goods were produced
Joining the EEC: for Renfe.
Since then, first for Renfe, Iberia and Transmediter-
a surge in planning
Spain’s entry into the European Economic Community
ránea, and then for other clients, shareholders and the
government itself, as well as in Latin America, Ineco has
continued to carry out all kinds of studies concerning
In the image, Javier García (EEC) in 1986 and the gradual incorporation of EEC legisla- the transportation of freight, especially on the railways
de Muro, geological
tion resulted in the need to plan actions and investments. –with the so-called ‘focal points studies’ and ‘axes’ of
engineer, during
Mediterranean Corridor Ineco worked with the Government to prepare plans to the 1980s and 90s– but also on roads and by sea, includ-
improvement works. lay the foundations for the infrastructure networks –high ing comparative analyses between modes, and surveys
speed, suburban, motorways, airports, etc.– which would relating to demand, products, train and train car capacity,
be built or modernised in the following two decades. infrastructures (such as stations, sidings, tracks, etc.),
Casimiro Iglesias, a civil engineer at Ineco since 2009, traffic flows, etc. Some recent examples include those of
summarises what happened during this period: “In the the PLAZA platform and the Zaragoza terrestrial mari-
middle of the 1980s, the transport system had major defi- time terminal, completed in 2002; the ZAL at the port CATALAN PYRENEES SKI RESORT
ciencies in terms of capacity and quality, and this threat- of Algeciras (2009); and the industrial park of Foronda PLANNING PLAN
ened the county’s economic development. A number of airport in Vitoria (2010). The plan, carried out in 1982, was unique
because it was one of the company’s first
infrastructure plans were launched, such as the General There have also been a large number of feasibility land-planning plans. With 11 volumes,
Roads Plan 1984-1991, the Rail Transport Plan 1987 and studies for new logistics areas for central and regional this thorough study analysed the
the Large City Transport Improvement Plan 1990, all of government in Spain, and later for overseas governments situation of ski resorts in municipalities
which started a process of modernisation of infrastruc- in countries such as Colombia (air cargo study for San- throughout this area. Above in the
centre, Antonio Monfort, author of the
tures that has radically changed Spain’s transport system. tiago Vila de Flandes airport, 2011), Kuwait (Shadadiya study, along with Jesús Rubio, also a civil
Funds from the European Union were the fundamental industrial area, 2012) and Ecuador (ILCO area in Santo
-
engineer. On the right, Carlos Roa’s report
catalyst for this process”. Domingo de los Tsáchilas, 2017). on a phosphate transportation study in
the Sahara by Sofrerail (1968).
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photo_Vía Libre/ Luis López García-Trenes de Hoy
t the beginning of the 1990s, Spain, by then a member
of the EEC and in the process of consolidating its
recent democracy, undertook a process to expand
and renovate its airports, roads and railways. The
great events of 1992 –the commemoration of the fifth
centennial of the discovery of America by Columbus, the
Universal Exposition of Seville and the Barcelona Summer
Olympic Games– served as a showcase for the country. Ma-
drid also undertook large works projects in light of these
events: the refurbishment of Atocha station to receive high
speed and the green corridor (‘Pasillo Verde’, 1989-1997),
Ineco’s first comprehensive works management project.
major infrastructure
Aena’s acquisition of a stake in Ineco gave the com-
pany strength and substance: thus began the modernisa-
tion Spain’s airports, which, at the time, were suffering
Above left, Dulce
from serious saturation problems. Aeronautical activities,
1993-1999
Galán and Víctor
in both airports and air navigation, began. Gándaras working
on the Renfe
inventory. On the
right, surveyor
technical works Esteban Casares;
below, part of the
assistance
team and a ‘Pasillo
Verde’ excavation
notebook.
the ‘pasillo verde’
The aim of the works on the Madrid green corridor (‘Pasillo
Aena’s acquisition of a stake in Ineco in 1993 marked Verde’) was to complete the first ring of the Madrid Cer-
the beginning of a new business activity, airport canías network and develop and outfit the land between
Príncipe Pío and Atocha stations for railway use. The work
engineering, with the ‘Plan Barajas’ as a major included the drafting of projects, analysis and study of
milestone and the first air navigation work. bids, and technical assistance for monitoring, manage-
ment and works management.
PHoto_esteban casares
According to Roberto Salas, a public works engineer
at Ineco since 1987, “with the ‘Pasillo Verde’, Madrid re-
covered the southwest of the city. It was the first major
urban planning project and also the first time a large
tunnel boring machine was used in Spain. This work was
followed by the Oviedo ‘Cinturón Verde’ (1993-1997) and
Bilbao Ría 2000, for which we were responsible for works
management and technical assistance on the southern
bypass (1995-1999)”.
For José Mª Urgoiti, a civil engineer at Ineco since 1987,
the ‘Pasillo Verde’ was without a doubt: “An emblematic
work that allowed us to create expert teams and opened
the door to other major works. At that time, Renfe also Above, Roberto Salas
commissioned us to carry out an inventory of all of its at Príncipe Pío. On
property, a huge job”. Regarding this inventory, Dulce Ga- the right, works at
the Alicante Airport
lán, an engineer specialising in geomatics and topogra-
where Ineco took
phy at Ineco since 1987, adds: “Up to a thousand people on its first technical
participated. We demonstrated that we had the technical assistance project
and management capability to resolve any challenge”. at an airport.
The first technical assistance on airport works also
the 1990 s
Aena, the ‘pasillo verde’,
began. Víctor Pardo, an aeronautical engineer who has
been with Ineco for 20 years, highlights that the first
of them won in competition was “the refurbishment of
Alicante airport (1994-1995). A year later, we went to El
“The ‘Pasillo Verde’ was an
emblematic work that allowed us to
Hierro airport (1996-1997) but the one I remember as the create expert teams and opened the
the ‘Plan Barajas’ most unique was Namibia (2002). We worked as part of a
consortium as managers of the project to modernize the
door to other major works”
and the beginning of air country’s airport facilities, including the project for the
extension of the runway at the Walvis Bay airport and
José Mª Urgoiti, deputy general director
of National Operations
navigation work
...
management of the works”.
22 — itransporte itransporte — 23Aena, a new entity created in 1991 to manage airports 1. Barcelona airport
intermodal building
and air navigation in Spain, needed to deal with increasing air designed by Ineco.
2. Palma de
traffic due to tourism at the beginning of the 1990s which Mallorca airport.
3. Seville Air Traffic
caused saturation problems, especially in Madrid and Barcelona. Control Centre.
4. Tenerife North
terminal.
02
BEGINNING OF THE EXPANSION
AIRPORTS
01 03 04
“In 1999, we undertook one of the most important
projects in our history: two new runways at
Alternative configuration of five
runways of the new Campo Real Madrid-Barajas airport”
airport included in the ENAM.
José Luis Pena, aeronautical engineer
A
t the end of the decade, the ‘Plan Barajas’ and ‘Plan Rafael Torres, an aeronautical engineer and airports tical technical engineer at Ineco since 1998: “Ineco began to
Barcelona’ were approved, works that would continue account manager at Ineco since 1999, summarises: “The participate in the drafting of master plans in 1997. The ap-
throughout the first two decades of the century, as expansion of Barajas for Ineco, it not only meant a consoli- plication of this experience abroad with Aena International or
would the expansion works on the airports of Palma dation of our knowledge of airport projects and works, but other companies has led us to planning airports in countries
de Mallorca, Valencia and Alicante (‘Plan Levante’), also an opportunity to develop new capabilities in relation such as Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands,
Málaga (‘Plan Málaga’) and the rest of the network. to the integrated management of projects, operation, plan- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq ,
“Our first major project was the Tenerife North airport ning, commissioning and operational transition”. Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Mexico,
terminal (1996) in collaboration with the Canary Island Jamaica, Morocco, Angola, Uganda and Kenya”.
architecture firm N3. The second was the new Air Traffic
Control Centre in Seville, together with the Seville archi- the ‘plan barcelona’
tects Cruz and Ortiz. And in 1999, we undertook one of the
Above, an aerial view
After expansions in 1968 and 1992, in 1999, the Barcelona- air navigation
most important projects in our history: two new runways El Prat airport began its third major expansion that would In parallel with the growth of air traffic, the company’s ac-
of Madrid-Barajas
at Madrid-Barajas airport, whose numbers far exceeded any airport with the transform it into what it is today: the country’s second air- tivities in air navigation also increased. The first projects –
other project carried out thus far”, explains José Luis Pena, two new runways port. “We mainly participated in airport construction”, says initially for Aena and now for ENAIRE– started around 1995.
an aeronautical engineer at Ineco since 1996. designed by Ineco’s Gabriel Díaz-Roncero, an aeronautical engineer employed at Fernando Gómez Comendador, an aeronautical engineer
airport Projects
Ineco since 1997, “involving us in planning, design, construc- at Ineco between 1995 and 2012, recalls that: “At the end
team and, on the
right, the team in tion supervision and commissioning of the most significant of the 1990s, flight progress strips were the main source
from fsam to THE ‘Plan Barajas’ the company’s Calle
Potosí offices
actions in T1 and T2”. of information. It was a manual job which started with a
Air traffic in Barajas continued its unstoppable growth. Ac- literal copy of the information in the control tower early in
in 2000.
cording to the legislation, an in-depth study of alternatives the morning. The automation of operational information
was required before any expansion could begin: this was the master plans, AN AIRPORT MILESTONE management processes contributed by Ineco represented
FSAM (Future Madrid Airport System) that Ineco drafted for The start of Ineco’s support to assist Aena in preparing and a great breakthrough”.
the DGAC between 1997 and 1999. This complex analysis, system (ABHS), a VIP lounge, rerouting and paving works on updating the Master Plans - implemented by law in 1996 - Although Ineco now develops its own methodologies and
a milestone for both the company and the airport consul- a road (M-111) and new access roads. An enormous project marked another milestone for the company and for airport software, in the early years “runway occupancy times were
tancy, resulted in the large-scale expansion covered in the about which José Luis Pardo de Santayana, an aeronautical plans in Spain. According to Miguel de Bernardo, an aeronau- taken with a stopwatch from the tower, we digitised the
Master Plan approved in 1999 and prepared by Ineco. That engineer at Ineco since 1997, comments: “40 of us started terrain with a tablet from paper maps, and we didn’t have
year the ‘Plan Barajas’ began, with Ineco providing technical and, by the end, 100 of us were working on the basic engi- simulators”, explains Mª Luisa Fernández, an aeronautical
assistance for nine years, until 2006. At the same time, a neering and design of the airfield expansion. We considered “The studies carried out technical engineer at Ineco since 1995.
study began to examine the viability of a second airport, to so many alternatives for the location of the terminals that Since the end of the 1990s, Ineco has provided special-
be located in Ciudad Real: the ENAM (Studies for the New our Aena colleagues told us that we should just put wheels
for the Barajas expansion ised engineering and technical consultancy projects in
Airport of Madrid) project, an exhaustive technical, finan- on them”. For Javier de Cos, a civil engineer who spent 30 project brought together a great relation to ATM (air traffic management) and CNS (com-
cial, and environmental study carried out in three phases years at Ineco between 1973 and 2013: “Our Madrid airport team of experts that brought us munications, navigation and surveillance) systems and has
(2000-2005). In the meantime, the large-scale works began system (FSAM) studies for the Barajas airport Master Plan been involved in the modernisation of hundreds of facilities
at Barajas that would continue until the middle of 2000: two and that of a new airport in Campo Real (ENAM) not only international recognition in the network. “Today, we are able to provide specifications,
new runways, two towers, the terminals T4 and T4S, connec- enabled the expansion of Barajas and long-term planning, in consultancy” commissioning and radio simulation system services in
ted by a driverless underground train (people mover), two but also created a large team of experts that made Ineco an any country of the world”, confirms Víctor Gordo, an airport
Javier de Cos, civil engineer
...
new aprons, six car parks, an automated baggage handling internationally recognised airport consultancy company”. engineer at Ineco since 1998.
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