BMP 2008 presents its awards to the best entrepreneurs and real estate projects

At the national level the BMP to the 'national real estate entrepreneur best' award went to at the hands of George Miarnau Banús, Honorary President of the Comsa group.
The group is positioned as the ninth Spanish company of construction and services, the first in Catalonia and the group, present on five continents, has doubled its sales in just four years. In 2007 it invoiced 651 million euros and closed 2007 with sales of more than 1.2 billion euro. It has a staff of 4,500 professionals.
The 'Parc de Recerca biomedical' of Barcelona has received the award as 'Best national project', according to the jury for the excellence of the architectural design of the building of 50,000 square metres designed by Manuel Brullet and Albert Pineda in a field of 9,000 meters on the sea front of Barcelona. It has been jointly promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University and the consortium of the Franca area of Barcelona with a total investment of 120 million euros. The service provided to society makes possible that 800 highly qualified professionals to work and interact every day in scientific areas as crucial as 'Genomic regulation', 'Regenerative medicine', 'Image Milecular' or 'Research in environmental epidemiology'.

At the international level, the Honorary President of Secovi, Romeu Chap Chap, has been awarded 'Best businessman international'. This Brazilian businessman has been 50 years of dedication to the real estate sector as promoter, and even today his 75 years of age, as a driver of business and social initiatives. In these 50 years has promoted more than 100 skyscrapers in various Brazilian cities and more than 2,400 houses. In total, more than 700,000 square metres constructed. He has pioneered the promotion of shopping malls in Brazil with the top three in the city of Sao Paulo. It has also promoted 50,000 square meters of offices, as well as several hotels and resorts. During his 15 years of Presidency of Secovi got the rebirth of the real estate in Brazil and prompted reforms that made it possible at last in Brazil the access of the humbler classes to the purchase of housing.

For its part, the 'best international project' went to 'Globe Town', located in the region of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), one of the major projects in the world with a budget of € 100 billion. The project, designed by the firm of architects Dante o. Benini, will be a metropolis of the size of Manhattan to accommodate 500,000 inhabitants and located in Nizhny Novgorod, the third city of Russia. There will be a landmark building shaped balloon of 120 meters in diameter that will host a theatre, museums, cinemas and shopping malls. You will also have to Park four times the size of Central Park in New York as well as stadiums, hotels and sports centers with a river port on the banks of the Volga River.

The jury also praised two recent projects, and which have deserved their appreciation. One of them, the delivered to the Junta of Extremadura for the special housing Plan by which the people of Extremadura are eligible for quality housing to be released at a price of 60,000 Euros. The Plan will undertake in 30 towns with a total of 17.149 dwellings protected of which 9.726 are price environment to 60,000 Euros. The formula for carrying out this project has been through the Plan of housing and thanks to a figure of land use called 'Projects of Regional interest'. This figure makes building a land for residential use with the condition that all the homes are protected. To ensure that the promotion of very low-cost housing can be profitable, they are combined with more profitable houses of medium type.

And there was also mention of the jury for the C district of the new headquarters of Telefónica. The works began in January 2004 and concluded in December of last year, was inaugurated by the Kings of Spain the past October 8. The total investment amounts to some 700 million euros, including the ground. He has received multiple awards by the values of sustainability, transparency and simplicity that it includes. About 11,800 people work in district C and more than 1,100 people visit the site every day. On the marquee of district C, the power plant photovoltaic on roof largest in Europe, which generates nearly 22 percent of the energy it consumes the enclosure is mounted.