The delegate of the Government of Spain in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández, has held a first institutional meeting with the new manager of the Circle of Andalusian Construction, Consulting and Public Works Companies (Ceacop), Arturo Coloma, after his recent appointment, with whom he has shared an analysis of the state in which the engineering and construction sector is located, the main concerns and challenges that it faces and how European funds Next Generation EU affect them, through the different lines of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).

Within the framework of the meeting, Fernández reviewed with Coloma the subsidies available to the different public administrations for the conservation of the residential park and the sustainability of buildings, with the aid of the Program to promote the improvement of energy efficiency and sustainability in housing; the rehabilitation of public buildings, through the Programs to Promote the Rehabilitation of Public Buildings of Autonomous Communities and Cities (PIREP autonomic) and Local (PIREP Local), as well as the actions for the recovery of historical heritage through 1.5% Cultural.

The government delegate also referred to the lines aimed at local entities to promote sustainable mobility with the aid contained in the Programme of aid to municipalities for the implementation of low-emission zones and the sustainable and digital transformation of transport, and to the actions for the conservation and construction of road infrastructures, such as the remodeling of the Tres Camino link in the Bay of Cadiz or the improvement of the A-7 between Roquetas de Mar and Viator (Almería).

To this has added the works of improvement of the High Speed Line (PAV) between Madrid and Andalusia, the continuity of the works of the LAV of the Mediterranean Corridor in the province of Almería, the new station of Antequera or the Atlantic Corridor.

Fernández has informed the manager of CEACOP of the more than 1.3 billion euros destined for hydraulic infrastructures in Andalusia in the policy of combating drought and for granting water security to the population, which include both the construction and improvement of desalination plants, as well as the sustainability of irrigation systems, works for sanitation and adaptation of water purification and the execution of pipelines, such as those of the Béznar-Rules system, in the province of Granada, or the San Silvestre tunnel, in Huelva.

The delegate offered Coloma, and the general secretary of CEACOP, Daniel Fernández, who was also present at the meeting, the “maximum collaboration and the opening of permanent communication channels for the reinforcement of the sector as an economic engine of Andalusia”.