The Caminos Foundation has awarded Eptisa—celebrating the 70th anniversary of its founding this year—the Rafael Izquierdo Award for Solidarity in the corporate category, in recognition of its extensive track record of collaboration in international cooperation projects, which spans more than three decades.
Granted by the Caminos Foundation in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Civil Engineers (Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos), this award, now in its 12th edition, acknowledges initiatives demonstrating solidarity and social commitment in the fields of civil engineering, transport, water, and the environment. The awards ceremony, held at Madrid’s Teatro Real, brought together more than 700 attendees, including institutional representatives and industry professionals.
In Eptisa’s case, the award recognizes three decades of activities focused on engineering at the service of people, with the aim of creating fairer, more resilient, and more sustainable societies.
Mauricio Gómez Villarino, CEO of Eptisa, expressed his gratitude for the award “on behalf of hundreds of ‘Engineering Teams’ who have contributed to making our planet more livable, within a company built by people,” and added that “this recognition is particularly meaningful in the year Eptisa celebrates its 70th anniversary, as not many companies manage to pass through that major milestone of maturity.”
The company’s CEO described Eptisa as a benchmark of “engineering with a soul—committed and highly advanced,” an image he has held since the beginning of his career as an engineer 25 years ago, when he had the opportunity to learn in detail about an Eptisa project that demonstrated how to produce water in underserved areas facing scarcity, unlocking their potential.
