Since 2014, a team of Traffic Control experts from Ineco has been working on the new 450-kilometre high-speed line between Makkah and Madinah, from the construction phase to the management of tests before the line opens for commercial operation.
Medellín was the first city in the world to use cable cars for public transport: we interview Tomás Elejalde, the general manager of Metro de Medellín.
Ineco celebrates a decade working for Jamaica’s main tourist airport, located in Montego Bay: most recently, on a redesign of the check-in area inspired by the natural environment –the airport is located by the sea– and supervision of airfield works. A decade in which passenger traffic has continued to grow, reaching almost four million in 2017.
The project to adapt the Astigarraga-Irún line to the international track gauge with the installation of a third rail involves complex adaptation of all aspects of the existing line. This is particularly the case with the Gaintxurizketa tunnel, where an innovative tunnel boring machine, specially designed to allow trains to pass through, is playing a key role in the works. For the works on this line, ADIF has commissioned a team of Ineco engineers and technicians to undertake the project, management and technical assistance.
With 4.9 million inhabitants and an annual growth rate of more than 4%, over the last three decades, Costa Rica has managed to diversify its economy, based on tourism, services and exports. To ensure that growth does not stop, the country is striving to modernise its transport infrastructure. Roads and ports are critical, and Ineco, in partnership with Acciona, is managing an infrastructure design programme known as the PIT for the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT), slated to run until 2020.
The EU BIM Task Group, founded by the European Commission and public bodies from 20 countries, has published a manual to support the implementation of the BIM methodology in the construction of public works in Europe, a sector that represents 9% of GDP and employs 18 million people.
Ineco has completed a feasibility study for the Egyptian government for what, starting in 2026, could be the country’s first high-speed line. The project covers more than a thousand kilometres connecting the capital city of Cairo with Luxor, Aswan and Hurghada, on the shores of the Red Sea, at a speed of more than 230 kilometres per hour. The study was based on the design of the line at a scale of 1:25,000, a demand study and a socio-economic and financial profitability analysis.
Ineco continues its work in the archipelago so that the growing number of international visitors can enjoy the best airport facilities, which are vital to the island country. It will supervise the enlargement of the passenger terminals of the Sal and Boa Vista airports through 2018.
With approximately 3.5 million passengers a year, the San Bernardo Cercanías station, built in the early 1990s, needed to improve accessibility to its facilities. Ineco engineers and architects worked for Adif on the modernisation of this central train station in Seville, through which more than 200 trains and 12,000 passengers pass each day, making it the largest in Seville in terms of traffic and the fourth largest in Andalusia in the south of Spain.
The UK government has awarded Ineco, in consortium with US-based Aecom and British company Capita, the contract for the preliminary design of civil works and environmental impact studies for Lot 2 of Phase 2B of the HS2 high-speed line. The line will connect more than four million people to the capital city of London in just one hour.
