€37.3 Million Cadiz Waste Collection and Street Cleaning Contract
The contract was signed on 29 November by the Mayor of El Puerto de Santa María, David de la Encina, the Deputy Mayor for the Economy, Antonio Fernández, the Director of the Andalusia II Branch of FCC, Francisco José Cifuentes, and Provincial Manager, Luis Luque.
FCC has delivered services in El Puerto directly or through various subsidiaries since 1980.
Under the new contract, FCC Medio Ambiente is committed to innovation and the use of clean fuels and renewable energies to ensure sustainability.
Following a review of its fleet of vehicles, non-polluting electric and natural gas vehicles have been incorporated to work silently in the historic centre while the use of diesel equipment will be greatly reduced. These vehicles are designed and adapted to the needs of the municipality to improve the quality of the service provided and to reduce the environmental impact.
The development and implementation of new technologies is increasingly demanding and important efforts are necessary to continue on a road along which FCC has been working for many years. Notably the machinery in the service includes three side loading GNC vehicles of 19 m3 de GNC, a reduced width electric rear loading collection vehicle of 7 m3, an auxiliary GNC electric for collection on both sides and moving CL bins and two electric carrier vehicles for supporting the collection.
For street cleaning, the company will provide the service with a reduced width electric tanker of 5 m3, a self-propelled electric washer, two large capacity diesel aspiration sweepers, a self-propelled electric sweeper, two articulated diesel aspiration sweepers, a large capacity diesel scrubber, a GNC high pressure water cleaner vehicle, an electric tipper vehicle, eight electric carriers, two water cleaner vehicles on electric carriers, a diesel washing carrier, 40 electric tricycles and 10 auxiliary carts for sweeping.
The service supervision will have four electrical inspection vehicles. As auxiliary tools there are 20 brush cutters and 20 blowers, also electrically driven.
The new contract also includes the renewal of more than 230 wastepaper bins and nearly 1,400 bins in the city, and FCC Medio Ambiente will deploy a staff of more than 140 fulltime and 102 part-time operatives, managers, workshop staff, administrators and service management personnel.
FCC's proposal included novel provisions for the implementation of training and measures to reduce absenteeism.
