Mexico. Opening the twenty-eighth National Congress of Civil Engineers "Building a Sustainable World", the Secretary of Communications and Transportation, Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, said that in the first three years of the current administration 80 percent of the nearly 10,000 contracts for the construction of large infrastructure works in Mexico were assigned to national companies, with an amount that exceeds 217 billion pesos.
Accompanied by the president of the College of Civil Engineers of Mexico, Víctor Ortiz Ensástegui, and the Undersecretary of Infrastructure of the SCT, Raúl Murrieta Cummings, he explained that 70 percent of the Mexican companies that have obtained the contracts are local, which allows to support regional economies, the creation of jobs and the strengthening of the national economy.
The federal official said that despite the legal obligation to carry out international public tenders, the participation of national and local construction companies has been decisively promoted, in which qualified civil engineers also participate.
For his part, Víctor Ortiz Ensástegui, president of the CICM, said that Mexican engineers want to participate in large projects such as the New International Airport of Mexico City, because we are at the height of the best engineering in the world.
He also recognized the close interaction and support he has had from the SCT when listening to his concerns as a guild, and for the issuance of the commemorative postal stamp of the 70th anniversary of this school.
For his part, Fernando Gutiérrez Ochoa, organizer of the event, said that it is necessary to promote the interaction of young people, academia and the productive sector, since by training and having competitive skills worldwide, it will be possible to build the infrastructure that Mexico needs in the short, medium and long term.
