About us
About 40 years generating dreams
SA de Obras y Servicios, COPASA, the mother company of the Copasa Group, is a construction and services company founded in 1985.
The wide experience acquired over more than 35 years’ activity has given us the capacity needed to undertake projects of all types – railway works, roads, water works, port works, public, residence and hospital buildings, maintenance of transport infrastructures, operation of water works, collection and handling of SUW, industrial activity, etc. All our activity is sustained on a premise that we consider fundamental: giving our clients full satisfaction.
The company
Mission
To build technologically advanced infrastructures and provide services by applying innovative solutions with the safety of the workers and respect for the environment foremost, generating value for our clients, shareholders and workers and contributing to the development and improvement of the quality of life of the persons in the countries in which we are present.
Vision
To be a leading business group in the construction and development of infrastructures and in the profitable and diversified provision of urban, logistics and energy services, applying innovative solutions with a permanent presence in the national and international markets.
Chairman´s letter
Dear shareholders:
As always, it is an honor and a pleasure for me to address you each year, each end of cycle, to take
stock of the recently completed fiscal year. To take stock and to ask for more work, more revenue,
more activity. As for the activity, it is a rather ethereal request, given that it is not here nor it is you to
whom we make this request, but the public administrators, to whom we demand honest, sustainable,
efficient, balanced, strong, well planned and very, very sensible management.
Corporate governance
Board of directors
José Luis Suárez Gutiérrez
Chair of the Board and Managing Director
Germán Galindo Moya
Vice-chairman of the board
Alfredo Blanco López
Director
Víctor Barallat López
Director
Juan Pablo González Pacheco
Director
Management bodies
GENERAL MANAGER
José Luis Saravia Centeno
ECONOMIC-ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER
Eduardo Izquierdo Fernández
MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER
Eduardo Alonso Barrio
CORPORATE ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER
Rubén Iván Padín Gómez
CORPORATE, FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Alfredo Blanco López
ASSOCIATE MANAGER TO THE GENERAL MANAGER
Juan Inocencio Leite Represa
Jorge Enrique Lucas Herranz
Rafael Arín Abad
COORDINATION AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Santiago González-Llanos Fernández de Mesa
CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS
Civil works I
Jaime Gutiérrez Fernández
Civil works II
José Luis González Gago
Civil works III
Andrés Martínez González
Building construction
Felipe Sánchez Alvariño
Concessions
Javier Ramos Barbosa
Saudi Arabia
Jaime Díaz Sancho
Brazil
Germán Conde Santos
Mexico
Manuel Tobar Vidal
Colombia
Juan Antonio López Ruíz
LEGAL AFFAIRS
José Luis Suárez-Vence Legerén
TENDERS
Germán Galindo Canales
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL AND R&D&I
María Jesús Fernández González
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Gumersindo Quiroga López
HUMAN RESOURCES
Mirian Fariñas Torres
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Jaime García Pérez
Economic and financial information
Copasa was the first Spanish company to debut in the MARF (Alternative Market of Fixed Income), the platform promoted by the Government and BME (Control of Markets and Spanish Markets) whose Regulation is approved by the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV)).
Certificates
Processes improvement, environmental management and R&D&I
Copasa has had quality certification since 1997 and environmental certification since 1999. Our commitment to quality and the environment drives us to renovate and improve our management continuously to cover the needs of our clients and to encourage respect and care for the environment. All of this has led us to improve the processes in all areas of the company and to improve our energy efficiency.
Likewise, since 2005 we have been developing projects and collaborating with companies, universities and technology centres to develop innovative projects that improve our competitiveness. We currently have 22 R&D projects, certified by accredited organisations, in all areas of our activity, both civil engineering and building and in various areas from construction, environmental and occupational health and safety processes to the development of new technologies.
COPASA applies the LIFERAIL project to extend the life of AV train rail – COPASA
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Nº Certificate |
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Quality management system, according to the ISO 9001:2015 standard, certified by AENOR. |
ER-1678/2009 |
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Environmental management system, according to the ISO 14001:2015 standard, certified by AENOR. |
GA-2017/0292 |
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R&D&I management system, according to ISO 166002:2021, certified by AENOR. |
IDI-0002/2017 |
Business policy
Risk prevention
COPASA has had OSHAS 18001 certification. The company’s involvement in the prevention of occupational risks and the health of its workers means that in recent years Copasa has had one of the lowest accident rates in the sector.
ISO 45001 EN
ISO 45001 ES
LEGAL AUDIT
Other companies in the group
Luso Galaica de Traviesas
This company’s activity is the manufacture of concrete sleepers for railway lines. LGT has the technologically most advanced manufacturing system, SDR (Dywidag – Spann – Rahmen System) with a production capacity of 1,440 sleepers/day.
LGT is certified as per the ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001: 2004 standards that accredit its assurance of quality and respect for the environment as well as product compliance and inter-operability certificates from Cetren. All products made by LGT are approved by the railway authorities.
GESECO
GESECO specialises in providing first need public urban services with an important activity in the conservation and maintenance of infrastructures (roads, green areas), collection of SUW and street cleaning, the operation of treatment facilities and the management of water supply and sewerage systems.
GESECO Aguas
GESECO Aguas is a services company, focused on the integral water cycle. Its main activity is the operation and maintenance of water treatment facilities and the management of supply and sewerage systems.
PESA
PESA Medioambiente continues to expand nationally and internationally in the management and treatment of water. Wholly owned by Copasa, the company undertakes all types of water treatment projects – drinking water, waste water, industrial water, desalination, etc.
Internationally, the projects in Romania and Bulgaria have been joined by ones in Algeria, with participation in the building and operation of WWTPs in Biskra and Bethioua. Pesa also continues to maintain its portfolio of projects in Morocco and Peru.
AUCEL
AUCEL is the concessionaire for the AG-31 motorway, which runs from the A-52 Rías Baixas motorway to Celanova. This motorway is the backbone for improving communications in the area of Celanova, in the province of Orense. The motorway went into operation in February 2013 with a shadow toll scheme.
AUSAL
AUSAL is the concessionaire for the AG-41 Salnés motorway, the main access to the largest tourist areas in Galicia, in the province of Pontevedra.
The motorway opened to traffic in July 2008 and will be operated by this concessionaire until 2035 with a shadow toll scheme.
AUCOM
AUCOM is the concessionaire for the Costa da Morte motorway (AG-55) which strengthens the corridor connecting the city of La Coruña with Finisterre, between the municipalities of Carballo and Baio in the province of La Coruña. The concession period terminates in 2038. It is currently in operation and has been open to traffic since July 2016.
COPASA Arabia
COPASA Arabia is the Copasa Group company in Saudi Arabia with its headquarters in Jeddah. The company is undertaking the works in the project for the high speed railway line between Mecca and Medina for the Saudi Railway Organization (SRO).
Copasa Arabia has installed various factories in the Saudi Kingdom to manufacture track materials (sleepers, cable channelling, rail welding) and five aggregate crushing plants. This company is also maintaining the 449 km of double track on the line for 12 years as well as other contracts that may arise in Saudi Arabia in the near future.
CALTIA
CALTIA is the Copasa Group company in Mexico. Currently, its most important project is the building of the western breakwater in the natural enlargement of the Port of Veracruz, for the Administración Portuaria Integral de Veracruz (APIVER), the most important port work currently under way in Mexico.
Depuradora de Ares
Depuradora de Ares is the concession company created to design, finance, construct, and undertake the 20-year operation of the waste water treatment plant for the area north of the Ares Estuary in A Coruña. The plant, which is currently in operation, serves a population of 52,000 inhabitants.
Abedul
Abedul is a business division that consists of various service area concessions, such as service stations and café-restaurants, located on different motorways throughout Spain. The terms of operation are between 30 and 45 years. The concession contract, in partnership with the Ministry of Public Works, includes design, financing, construction, and operation.
Circuito Vial Tres, S.A.
Circuito Vial Tres, SA has the 20-year public/private participation contract to design, build, operate and finance the Route 14 centre-west Sarandi del Yi bypass and the connection with Route 3 in Uruguay. The project involves the rehabilitation of 270 km of existing road, the repair of 11 structures and the building of eight bridges and three new locality bypasses, all on 15 sections of various lengths to be put into operation between 2019 and 2021.
