• Service: Technical supervision
• Consortium:  ACI Proyects
• Personnel: 101 Collaborators

CyD Peru Office Opening

March, offices were opened in Lima, Peru.

Felix De La Fuente

takes over the management of Peru.

NetZero

We committed to being carbon neutral to 2050.

• Remodeling 120 BCP branches.
• Steel Mills Management for Aceros Arequipa.

AVO II Concession project

Section:

• Av. Príncipe de Gales - Los Presidentes.
• Advisory service for inspection.

Andesita Diamante / Codelco (CDZ)

Our service includes: 

• Detailed design engineering
• Front-End Engineering Design
• Technical Inspection
• Sustainability
• Programming and monitoring
• Topography

Consolidation in mining with Codelco Radomiro Tomic

First detailed design engineering contract with Metro (Line 7 section B)

PMO for Line 1, Bogota subway

• Subway will run entirely over a viaduct
• 24 km in length/ 16 stations

• CyD participates in Codelco's Chuquicamata Underground project, through the CDZ Mining consortium.
• This important milestone marks the beginning of future services provided to the copper company.

• Executed in conjunction with the American company CDM Smith.
• Construction management of the expansion project for Minera Escondida Desalination Plant, owned by BHP group.
• This plant is the largest desalination plant in South America and allows minimizing the mine's inland water consumption.

40th Anniversary

CyD Ingeniería celebrates its 40th anniversary with a team of more than 850 employees. CyD Ingeniería continues to project itself into the future through a new generational transfer that allows young executives to take over the leadership of the different areas. Thus, Enrique Cruz Ugarte assumes the role of Executive President, while Hugo Ortiz Sembler remains as General Manager. At the same time, the company's structure is organized into four operating managements and three support managements.

• In partnership with local company Electroconsult
• 170 km in length

Internationalization:

Colombia: Consultancies as independent engineer, CyD-GPS consortium:

• Concession Cesar - Guajira
• Concession northern accesses to Bogota - Accenorte

Los Cóndores Hydroelectric Power Plant (CDZ consortium)

Los Cóndores run-of-river hydroelectric power plant with an installed capacity of 150 MW. It will use water from the Laguna del Maule, through a 12 km adduction tunnel.

CyD Antofagasta office

Opening of own offices

First Sewage water treatment plant

El Trebal II, Aguas Andinas

First Engineering Master Contract (Codelco):

Ministro Hales and Gabriela Mistral

First PMO contract,

Minera Escondida

Rancagua Express 

Consulting and management of this emblematic railway project, which connects Rancagua and Santiago in only 55 minutes.

• Inauguration of the offices in Antofagasta.
• CyD Ingeniería marks a relevant milestone in the history of the company, by joining the mining activity and opening offices in this northern city.

Certifications

The ISO-9001 Quality Certification process is carried out.

In subsequent years, this is complemented by ISO-14001 Environmental Certification and OHSAS-18001 (now ISO 45001) Certification relating to Prevention, Safety and Occupational Health.

• Lines 4 and 4a
• Line 2 north and south extension

CyD was the consulting firm for the Ministry of Public Works and the inspector for the first stage.

Technical inspection team of the concessionaire.

Merval

Management of the project to transform the Valparaíso railway into a commuter train.

First project management contract awarded.

• First large-scale bridge.
• Technical inspection of the new bridge crossing the Bío-Bío River.

Organizational Change

Adaptation to the growth experienced. Creation of Area Managements.

New Offices Corporate Management moves to Isidora Goyenechea 3162, Of. 601.

Technical inspection consultancy for new highway concessions

CyD develops the first Technical Inspection Consultancy or AIF contract in the new toll roads under concession

Contract with Metro de Santiago

CyD Ingeniería is awarded one of the most important contracts in its history with Metro de Santiago, for the new Line 5 project.

Tailings dams

The first technical inspection of a tailings dam at El Soldado Mine for Compañía Disputada de Las Condes is carried out.

• CyD Ingeniería is called to carry out the budget studies.
• The client requests the consulting firm to advise on the construction.

Concepcion office

Concepcion office opening

Private Construction

The private construction process began with the inspection of the “Edificio Amanecer”, in Concepcion.

Sanitary Works

The first client for the Sanitary works department is Empresa Metropolitana de Obras Sanitarias, EMOS.

• Engineer Benjamín Dávila joins the company as a partner.
• The company's name is changed to Cruz y Dávila Ingenieros Consultores Ltda

• Technical inspection of three roads: Lanco-Panguipulli, Osorno-Puerto Octay, Puerto Varas-Ensenada.

• AIF of the Loncoche-San José de la Mariquina road (Araucanía Region)
• Technical inspection of the Pichoy bridge in Valdivia

Creation of the company

On November 7, 1977 Juan Enrique Cruz y Cía. was founded, a pioneer company in the engineering consulting industry in Chile. From its first office, located at 127 Augusto Leguía Norte Street, a history marked by technical excellence, innovation and commitment to the development of the country began to take shape.

Its founder, Juan Enrique Cruz, a civil engineer and Project Manager at the American company Arthur McKee, identified in those years a market niche in engineering consulting, giving rise to a firm that would eventually become a benchmark in the sector.