Enriched by booming domestic orders, Spanish construction groups now are flexing their muscles globally. As well as moving into high-value-added sectors, contractors are increasingly exploiting their toll road know-how to pry open new markets. The U.S. is among prime destinations.
“We see the Spanish contractors now in the U.S. [where] they were not a few years ago,” says Stuart Graham, president and chief executive officer of Stockholm-based Skanska A.B. “They know the [toll road] business quite well. They’ve been at it for a long time.”