Arcion Slideshare - 2010 - English

ARCIONCLOSER TO THE FUTURE

ARCIÓNCLOSER TO THE FUTURE

7ARCION: CLOSER TO THE FUTURE

Art school (Guadalajara)Client: Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha

President’sLetter

Our Clients

16We have been Constructing the Future for 26 Years

22Tracing Roads and Railways

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34Tomorrow’s Generations will Live Here

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62Preserving our EmblematicalPast for those to Come

A Solid Corporation, commited to its people

Arción is a Renowned and Prize-Winning Company

10 ARCION: CLOSER TO THE FUTURE

AVE (Spain’s high-speed train) Madrid-Valencia stretchClient: Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Spain)


“Because there is a whole world waiting to be built out there”Antonio J. Medrano González | PresidentArción S.A. Construcciones

When Arción started its professional career, more than a quarter century ago, it did with a true commitment: to preserve, for the benefit of future generations, Spain’s historical and artistic heritage. For years, our core business was to restore some of the most significative buildings in our common history.

Nowadays, Arción’s top objective is that constructing the future.We want to keep on serving the society where we live and work

through a wide range of activities: from the building of museums to the construction of last generation housing developments, roads, railways or hydraulic works.

Throughout its history, Arción has made an effort to move forward and forward. It has carried out architecture works which shall be remembered and renowned the day after tomorrow for its excellence.

For us, the moment of walking new paths has come. We carry with us imppecable credentials, plus very clear objectives: to grow and to serve our community.

This book is about all that. This book is a witness of our past, but it does also reflect where we are longing to head. We are convinced that this corporation has already started a true trip to its future.

We will take pride if you choose to come with us.

Public housing buildingClient: Regional Government of Castilla La ManchaaPublic housing building (Guadalajara) Client: Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha


Daimiel hospital (Ciudad Real)Client: Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha

Our Clients

SPAIN’S CENTRAL GOVERNMENTMINISTY OF PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTS

• DG Roads• SEITT Spain’s Land Transport Administration• ADIF Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (Spanish

Railroads)• AENA Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea. (Spanish

Airports)MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, RURAL AND MARINE

• DG Hydraulic Works• Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadiana (Guadiana River

Administration)• Confederación Hidrográfica del Júcar (Jucar River Administration)• DG Coasts

MINISTRY OF HOUSING• S E P E S Spain’s Land Management Administration

DEFENCE MINISTRY• Mando Apoyo Logístico (Logistic Support Command).

MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND FINANCE• AEAT Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria (Spain’s Tax

Administration)HOME MINISTRY

• DG Civil GuardMINISTRY OF EMPLOYMENT AND IMMIGRATION

• Tesorería General de la Seguridad Social (Spain’s Social Security General Treasury)

• INSS Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social (Spain’s Social Security National Administration)

MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION• CIEMAT Centre of Energy, Environment and Technology Research

SPAIN’S REGIONAL GOVERNMENTSREGIONAL GOVERNMENT OF MADRID

• Regional Ministy of Public Works and Transports• Regional Ministry of the Environment• Regional Ministry for Culture, Sports and Tourism• Regional Ministry for Family and Social Affairs• Regional Ministry for the Arts• Regional Ministry of Education• Madrid’s Public Healthcare System• La Paz University Hospital• Biomedical Research Foundation• Canal de Isabel II

REGIONAL GOVERNMENT OF VALENCIA• Regional Ministy of Public Works and Transports• Regional Ministry for the Environment, Water, Planning and

Housing• Regional Ministry for Social Welfare• Regional Ministry of Health• Regional Ministry of Culture• The Parliament of Valencia• IVSA Valencia’s Public Housing Institute• CIEGSA Valencia’s Education Infrastructures Administration

• EPSAR Water Sanitation Public Corporation• VAERSA Valencia’s Public Corporation for the Management of

Waste• Castellón Culture• CACSA City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia

REGIONAL GOVERNMENT OF ARAGON• The Parliament of Aragon• Regional Ministy of Public Works, Planning and Transports• Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports

REGIONAL GOVERNMENT OF CASTILLA Y LEÓN• Regional Ministy of Public Works and Transports

REGIONAL GOVERNMENT OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA• Regional Government of Culture and Tourism• Regional Government of Education and Science• Regional Government of Land Planning and Housing• Regional Government of Health and Social Welfare• GICAMAN Castilla La Mancha Infrastructure Management

Corporation• SESCAM Castilla La Mancha Public Health System• ESINSA Castilla La Mancha Infrastructure Services and Assistance

Corporation• Castilla La Mancha Finances Institute• Institute for Wine• Castilla La Mancha Roads Management Society• Castilla-La Mancha University

SPAIN’S PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENTSALBACETE PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENTALICANTE PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENTCIUDAD REAL PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENTGUADALAJARA PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENTHUESCA PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENTVALENCIA PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT

CITY COUNCILSAmong others:Madrid City CouncilValencia City CouncilCastellón City CouncilCiudad Real City CouncilTeruel City Council

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COMPANIESAumarAutopistas del Estado (Spain’s Highways Corporation)Canal de Isabel IICastilla la Mancha Savings BankCISA – BANCAJA Valencia Savings BankPrivate Developers

FOUNDATIONSLa Luz de las Imágenes FoundationJaume II El Justo Foundation

WE HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTING THE FUTURE FOR 26 YEARS

L’Océanografic, City of Arts and Sciences of ValenciaClient: C.A.C.S.A.


AVE (Spain’s high-speed train) Madrid-Valencia stretchClient: Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Spain)


“Arción has become a reference in the field of construction”

Arción will celebrate its 26th birthday this year 2010, and it will do so by being present in most corners of Spain. During all these years, we have earned the respect from our peers. We are now considered a large company, able to serve the most demanding and successful clients and investors.

Arción was born in 1984 as a company specialized in the restoration and recovery of some of the most emblematical works in Spain’s cultural and historical heritage. Since then, and without forgetting our origins, we have grown and are now the builder of carriageways, railroads, viaducts, hydraulic works and all sort of housing projects.

We are present in some the most important counstructions of this generation, such as the AVE, Spain’s high-speed train. We are at the forefront of our sector with buildings such as the Guadalajara Art School or the Robotized Car Parking in Valencia’s city centre.

Hundreds of professionals work in our company, and they do so within the frame of our socially responsible corporate culture. A corporate culture whose main features are professional ethics, a high degree of respect for the environment and our commitment towards the community where we live and work.

We are concentrated in getting to the future before everyone else. From our start, we have made an effort to constantly update ourselves when it comes to technology and material resources.

Nowadays, that effort has been recognized by international awards that works which Arción undertook have received. Among them, the prestigious Designshare Award for Innovative Schools or the prize that L’Almoina Archeological Museum received as the second best European Museum.

We have erected works that will stay for a very long time in the memory of those who admire them. We want to keep it that way in the future.

A-42 Dual carriagewayClient: Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Spain)

TRACING ROADS AND RAILWAYS


Old NIII Road (Madrid)Client: Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Spain)


“We are noted for our high quality processes”

We realize that, in Arción, we have spent a great deal of our history connecting the dots. Trazing highways and railroads that connect cities, that help move goods and services, create jobs and economic growth. We have spent a lot of time leading projects whose main objective has been to contribute to the development and modernization of Spain and other countries.

Arción undertakes infrastructure works, and it does it thanks to technologies and methodologies designed to fit the current needs of the industry. We are noted for our high quality processes and for being able of perfectly undertaking great public projects.

Thousands of people travel every day by roads that we have built. For instance, the A-1 dual carriageway (in the Manoteras- San Sebastián de los Reyes stretch, in Madrid), the A-42 dual carriageway in the Madrid-Toledo stretch and the A-5 dual carriageway in the Oropesa stretch.

An endless number of passengers travel by trains and railroad stretches which we have created, as the AVE (Spain’s high speed train) that goes from Madrid to Valencia.

All those works are a reminder that, nowadays, the greatest pride a corporation such as Arción can take is, simply, of that of connecting the dots. That of connecting people and cities.

A-42 Dual carriageway. Stretch: Cabañas de la Sagra (Toledo)Client: Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Spain)


A-5 Dual Carriageway, near the province of Cáceres (Toledo) Client: Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Spain)


Defence against floodings at Valencia’s river Turia final stretch Client: Regional Government of Valencia

Sur Quatre Carreres Boulevard (Valencia)Cliente: Valencia City Council

Arción brings innovative and modern infrastructure solutions in order to guarantee the supply of water, avoid floodings and favour the recovery of zones with a certain degree of ecologic value.


AVE (Spain’s high-speed train) Ocaña-Villarrubia de Santiago stretchClient: Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Spain)

A-1 Dual carriageway: Manoteras-San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid) stretchClient: Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Spain)

Carrascosa reservoir (Guadalajara)Client: Carsima


Quatre Carreres State (Valencia) Client: Valencia City Council

TOMORROW’S GENERATIONS WILL LIVE HERE

Maintenance of La Paz University Hospital (Madrid)Client: La Paz University Hospital (Madrid)

66 Semidetached houses. El Bosque estate (Valencia)Client: Private Developer


“We are honoured that many cities have entrusted us with their museums, their schools and their hospitals”

For us, building housing projects is more than putting bricks together. For us, it is erecting the homes where tomorrow’s generations will live and dream.

For that reason, committed as we are with the community where we live, we make the effort of working for it with efficiency, determination, quality and a complete respect for its environment.

In late 2009, we were honoured with the Brick Architecture Award for a public housing project in Mocejón, Toledo. A project that was designed by architect Luis Martínez Santamaría. Being considered the best construction company in that category is a great way of starting the decade, isn’t it?

We are honoured that many cities have entrusted us with their museums, their schools and their hospitals. In Valencia, where our corporate offices are located, we were charged with building the L’Almoina Archeological Museum. In Vinaroz, we erected the Forget Public School. In Daimiel, we created its local clinic.

Arción is present in Albacete’s Medical School building, in the Parliament of the Region of Valencia, in Castellón’s Sports City, in the Guadalajara Art School or in Jávea’s Conservatory.

If, in a hundred years old, young music students keep on playing their notes within the walls we erected, our work will have been worthwhile.

167 apartments (Valencia)Client: Private Developer


Social Security Treasury Bulding (Majadahonda, Madrid)Client: Spain’s Social Security Administration


91 Apartments and 40 OfficesClient: Private Developer


Sports City of CastellónClient: Castellón de la Plana City Council


Covered Swimming Pool in Puertollano (Ciudad Real)Client: Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha


Secondary School in Museros (Valencia) Client: CIEGSA


Airport (Valencia)Client: AENA (Spanish Airports and Air Navigation Company)

Hospital in Cadalso de los Vidrios (Madrid)Client: Regional Government of Madrid (Madrid’s Public Healthcare System)

PRESERVING OUR EMBLEMATICAL PAST FOR THOSE TO COME


Restoration of Peter’s Castle (Alicante)Client: Petrer City Council


“Arción has the knowledge, expertise, and the human and material resources to bring the grandeur back to our common past”

During the first few years of Arción’s history, our core business was the restoration and recovery of Spain’s architectural and cultural heritage.

For decades, our corporation’s main commitment was to restore emblematical buildings for the sake of future generations. We have undertaken important works at such emblematical buildings as the wall of the Castle of Xátiva, the Castle of Petrer, the New Batzán Palance in Madrid, Benicássim’s famous Villa Elisa or L’Almoina Archeological Museum, in Valencia.

Nowadays, we are among the most respected Spanish companies in that specific field.

In 2009, two of our main works were the restoration of San Juan de la Cruz Church and the recovery of San Esteban Protomártir Church, both in Valencia, where our headquarters are located.

Our commitment with the past opens the way to an even more strenghtened future.


L’Almoina Archaelogy Museum (Valencia)Client: Valencia City Council

San Juan de la Cruz Church (Valencia)Client: La Luz de las Imágenes Foundation. Regional Government of Valencia

Restoration of El Torreón – Castle of Xativa (Valencia)Client: La Luz de las Imágenes Foundation. Regional Government of Valencia


San Esteban Church (Valencia) Client: La Luz de las Imágenes Foundation. Regional Government of Valencia

A SOLID CORPORATION, COMMITED TOITS PEOPLE


Asphalt agglomerate plant. Almagro (Ciudad Real)

Asphalt agglomerate plant. Segovia


“We devote an important part of our resources to the implementation of new technologies, the deployment of efficient planning and management processes and the acquisition of state-of-the-art machinery and equipment”

Within our corporation, we devote an important part of our resources to the implementation of new technologies, the deployment of efficient planning and management processes and the acquisition of state-of-the-art machinery and equipment.

The investments we have made in technology have been mainly about acquiring concrete and asphalt agglomerate plants. Moreover, the company owns a lot of machinery in constant renovation. Our facilities are modern and we are focused in mining resources, the making of bituminous mixtures and the production of concrete.

As a company which gives a great deal of importance to its corporate social responsibility, all our work is undertaken with the objective of always reducing our ecological footprint to the minimum. We want to build and help the cities where we work grow, but we insist in combining that task with a great deal of respect for the environment.

We keep on communicating to the societies where we work all our respect for nature. We stand for the planet and we vouch for a sustainable use of resources. We are committed with it and we have a solid policy of research and quality that makes both economic development and environmental equilibrium compatible.

We are constantly thinking about reaching new heights. For that reason, we have developed strong alliances with universities and faculties, we give prizes to the best research projects in our field and we have R+D programmes.


Limestone deposit. Villarrobledo (Albacete)


Mineral Aggregates. Almagro (Ciudad Real)


Business Integrity:We look after our people

Arción’s success would not have been posible without the hundreds of people that work in our company. They are professionals who, day by day, show how talented the are and how they are committed to our common objectives of growth.

From its start, Arción has taken responsibility for bringing up its people and helping them grow professionally, too. Every single employee pays attention to even the smallest details and their expertise is the main key to our success.

The corporation’s professional team, as well as newest workers, are always taken care of. They are invited to join training programmes and we make sure that they are sufficiently prepared as to undertake their duties properly.

We look after our people. We know that knowledge is an endless source of competitive advantages and the engine that generates wealth in a country like ours.

We do take pride in investing in our people as much as we can. It could be no other way.


Premios Cámara 2007 Award Ceremony, where we were acknowledged as “Best Construction Company”

Arcion is a Renowned and Prize-Winning Company

We do not work just to win prizes, but winning them fills us with pride. In our field, the recognizition of our professionals is much more than just a diploma. It is a way of learning that we are always improving the way we work. It is knowing that we work with the greatest of clients.

We have earned national and international prizes, but there is something very clear to us: behind a great building work, behind every single prize, there is always a great client. For without a great client, great works would simply not exist.


Europa Nostra Award: Second Best European Museum. L’Almoina Archeological Museum. Valencia.

Valencia Chamber of Commerce Award. Best Construction Company 2007.

Designshare Award for Innovative Schools (United States). Guadalajara Art School.

Hyspalyt Award 2009. Mocejón Housing Project, designed by architect Luis Martínez Santa María.

Architecture FAD Awards. Finalist. VII Brick Architecture Awards. Public Housing Project in Guadalajara.

“Olympic Castilla La Mancha” Programme. Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha.

“Infanta de España S.A.R. Doña Elena” Sports National Prize

Civitas Nova Forum. Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha.

Golf National Tournament. Castilla La Mancha Savings Bank.

Levante U.D. football club

Comunidad Valencia Bicycle Race

Safety and Health Congress. Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Awards

Sponsorships

Mocejón Housing Project (Toledo)Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha


Branches

Paseo Alameda, 61 - 146023 VALENCIATelf.: 96 3318179 - Fax: 96 3318449.

Paseo Alameda, 56 - 1º46023 VALENCIA

www.arcion.es

COMPANY ADDRESS

HEADQUARTERS

LOCAL OFFICES

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Delegación Zona I C/ General Urrutia, nº 75 - 5º 46013 VALENCIATelf.: 96 3300573 - Fax: 96 3318052

Delegación Zona IIAvda. de la Industria, 49 b, 1º - Edificio El Fresno28108 AlcobendasMADRIDTelf.: 91 4901090 - Fax: 91 6622548

Delegación Zona IIIAvda. de la Industria, 49 b, bajo - Edificio El Fresno28108 AlcobendasMADRIDTelf.: 91 4901090 - Fax: 91 6622548

Delegación Zona IVC/ General Urrutia, nº 75 - 5º 46013 VALENCIATelf.: 96 3300573 - Fax: 96 3318052

Delegación Castilla la ManchaC/ Ojos del Guadiana, nº 3 - 1º13001 CIUDAD REALTelf.: 926 271646 - Fax: 926 256934


ARCIÓN: CLOSER TO THE FUTURE.In the creation of this book, Adrian Frutiger’s Avenir Next typeface was used.

Its first Edition was printed in Valencia, Spain, in 2010.www.arcion.es

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