History

Idea of Independence

Juan Enrique Cruz Salas, Project Manager of North American Company Arthur McKee, one of the largest engineering firms in the world, discovers a niche market in the area of engineering consulting.

Creation of the company

The company, initially named Juan Enrique Cruz y Cía., is a pioneer in the engineering consulting industry and is located at Augusto Leguía Norte 127, 2nd floor, in Las Condes district of Santiago.

First contract – MOP

The contract in question deals with the technical inspection of the “Loncoche – San José de la Mariquina” road (Araucanía Region). Subsequently, a new contract of the same nature is added: Pichoy bridge in Valdivia.

New contracts – MOP

The company is awarded three new contracts with MOP. All of three arc technical road inspections in the south of the country: Lanco – Panguipulli, Osorno- Puerto Octay and Puerto Varas- Ensenada.

Bridges – MOP

The company was awarded a major contract with MOP. Which consists of the technical inspection of 24 bridges to be turned from wood into concrete.

New partner

Engineer Benjamín Davila Montané joins the company as a partner, so the company changes its corporate name to Cruz y Dávila Ingenieros Consultores Ltda. (Henceforth, Cruz y Dávila or the current CyD Ingeniería).

Creation of the Appraisal Department

The Appraisal Department conducts arbitrations for construction companies such as Delta, Brotec, Claro Vicuña Valenzuela and Figalem.

Sanitary Works – EMOS

CyD Ingeniería expands, and the Sanitary Works Department is established, with a specialized team of professionals. It’s main client is Empresa Metropolitana de Obras Sanitarias (EMOS).

Private building

CyD Ingeniería is awarded its first private building inspection. Which is carried out in the building with offices and apartaments “Amanecer” in Concepción.

10th Anniversary

CyD Ingeniería celebrates its 10th anniversary with a team of around 100 collaborators.

New office in Concepción

CyD Ingeniería opens a new office in Concepción, the first one outside Santiago, mainly to provide public works supervision services in the south of the country. Wich is located at Cochrane 753 Interior.

Codelco

CyD Ingeniería makes the first registration for Codelco Chile (Chuquicamata Division) thus becoming part of the supplier register.

National Congress

CyD Ingeniería develops the budget analysis for the construction of the new National Congress. In addition, the client requests the company to advise the Project management, the process is carried out by both the representatives of the outgoing government and those of the newly elected President Patricio Aylwin.

Mining tailings dams

CyD Ingeniería is awarded its first technical inspection of tailings dams. This inspection is carried out at El Soldado mine, part of the Disputada Las Condes company, which currently belongs to Anglo American Group.

Villuco land subdivision

CyD Ingeniería is assigned its first management and technical inspection service for the development of land for residential use. It envolves the Villuco estate subdivision in Concepción, where houses will be built.

Los Alpes sawmill

CyD is granted the management service for Los Alpes sawmill in Concepción. Which is an important industrial project in the area.

Santiago Metro Line 5

CyD Ingeniería wins its first contract with Metro de Santiago. To work specifically on the new Line 5 project. This contract becomes one of the most important for the company. As it initiates a relationship with the client of more than 29 years, that continues to this present day.

Independent Engineer

CyD Ingeniería is awarded the independent engineering for the construction of the Itata Highway, north access to Concepción. This service matches as the first one as a technical consultant to national and international banks that finance large concession projects in Chile and abroad.

20th Anniversary

CyD Ingeniería celebrates its 20th anniversary of life with a team of about 250 collaborators.

Organizational change

CyD Ingeniería is experiencing great growth and there fore needs to be professionalized. Thus independent Managements are constituted by area and some managers join as partners.

New Headquarters

After 20 years located on Augusto Leguía Norte St., CyD Ingeniería Corporate Management moves to a new office at 3162 Isidora Goyenechea Ave. 6th floor, Las Condes, Santiago.

Llacolén Bridge – MOP

CyD Ingeniería is awarded the first technical inspection of a large road bridge named Llacolén. This bridge crosses Biobío river, connecting San Pedro de la Paz and Concepción.

Carriel Sur Airport

CyD Ingeniería is granted the first technical inspection of Carriel Sur Airport in Concepción. Which received international airport approved in 2009, due to the repairs made to its runway and the installation of an instrument landing system.

Full School Day

CyD Ingeniería is awarded an important contract with the Ministry of Education (Mineduc). This consists of the technical inspection of the infrastructure for the Full School Day plan (JEC by its Spanish initials) throughout Chile, which involves more than 1,200 schools between Arica and Tierra del Fuego.

Merval

CyD Ingeniería takes on the management of the project that turns the Valparaíso Railway into a Metro train. It carries out large-scale engineering works, which involve, among other things, burying a section of the railway without stopping its operation.

Lines 4 y 4A – Santiago Metro

CyD Ingeniería is awarded the management consulting services for Santiago’s new metro lines 4 and 4A.

Costanera Norte Highway – MOP

CyD Ingeniería participates as a consultant company for MOP in the megaproject of the construction of Costanera Norte highway, carrying out the inspection for the first stage. Subsequently, during the expansion of the highway, we acts as the technical inspection team of Sociedad Concesionaria Costanera Norte S.A., supporting the client in the external control of the work.

Bíovías

Due to the experience gained with the services delivered for Santiago’s Metro and Merval in Valparaíso, CyD Ingeniería partakes in the management of the Biovías project, which consists of improving the road infrastructure and public transport systems of Concepción for the State Railways Company (EFE by its Spanish initials).

ISO certifications

CyD Ingeniería obtains the ISO 9001 certification for the quality of its procedures. Subsequently, it achieves the ISO 14001 environmental certification and the OHSAS 18001 occupational health and safety certification (today ISO 45001). All three certifications are currently updated.

Convento Viejo, El Bato and Chacrillas reservoirs – MOP

CyD Ingeniería was awarded the technical inspection of several projects for the Hydraulic Works Directorate of MOP, including Convento Viejo, El Bato and Chacrillas reservoirs. These works continue until 2016. Subsequently, Valle Hermoso, Empedrado and La Punilla reservoirs are added.

This date, CyD is the Chilean company with the most experience in the technical inspection of reservoirs.

30th Anniversary

CyD Ingeniería celebrates its 30th anniversary with a team of about 350 employees.

Succession process ends

The General Management of CyD Ingeniería is transferred to a new generation of professionals, Enrique Cruz Ugarte and Hugo Ortiz Sembler.

Enjoy and Dreams hotels and casinos

CyD Ingeniería is granted several contracts in the field of hotels and gambling casinos, both for Enjoy and Dreams. It develops projects in Enjoy Antofagasta, Enjoy Coquimbo, Enjoy Santiago, Dreams Temuco, Dreams Valdivia, Dreams Punta Arenas and Dreams Puerto Varas.

Road and airport concessions

Due to its experience in road and airport projects, CyD Ingeniería is awarded the technical inspection of several highway and airport concessions nationwide, with the highlight being the service provided for the construction of the New Araucanía Airport in Temuco.

Organizational change

CyD Ingeniería begins a transformation process in order to prepare for a new period of growth and development. Thus, the company is structure is composed by a President, two General Managers, four Operational Managers, and four Functional Managers.

Office in Antofagasta

After four years of developing an important plan in the north of the country, CyD Ingeniería achieves an important milestone in the histoy of the company, by joining the mining activity and inaugurating a new office in Antofagasta. Since them to date, the organization has important clients such as Codelco, Minera Escondida Limitada, BHP, Antofagasta Minerals, SQM, CMP, Capstone Copper, among others.

Lines 3 y 6 – Santiago Metro

CyD Ingeniería is awarded the management consultancy for Santiago’s new metro lines 3 and 6.

Rancagua Express – EFE

CyD Ingeniería starts the consultancy and management of another EFE project, Rancuagua Express metro train which connects the cities of Rancagua and Santiago whose main advantage is to reduce travel times.

Puente Bicentenario – MOP

(After the 2010 earthquake) CyD Ingeniería is awarded the technical inspection of the Bicentennial Bridge in the Biobío Region. This bridge connects San Pedro de la Paz and Concepción and allows the transit of heavy vehicles.

Los Cóndores Hydroelectric Power Plant- ENEL

For the first time, ENEL outsources the technical inspection of a subway run-of-river hydroelectric plant and it does so in a consortium of which CyD Ingeniería is a member. It is Los Cóndores, with an installed capacity of 150 MW. Which uses water from Laguna del Maule, through a 12-kilometer adduction tunnel built with TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine), delivering energy equivalent to the demand of 200,000 homes.

Going abroad / global

CyD Ingeniería begins the process of internationalization in Latin America by being awarded road infrastructure projects. It highlights include the inspection of the first concessions highways in Paraguay. They correspond to Routes 2 and 7. Which connect Asunción with Ciudad del Este.

Corporate Volunteer Program

In order to channel the solidarity activities that CyD Ingeniería constantly promotes, the Corporate Volunteer Program is created to help those most in need in the communities where the company is present. This team allows the direct participation of employees from different management areas in various initiatives of Hogar de Cristo and other foundations.

40th Anniversary

CyD Ingeniería celebrates its 40th anniversary with a team of about 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 Executive Presidency and Hugo Ortiz Sembler remains as General Manager. At the same time, the company’s structure is organized into four operating areas and three supporting areas.

Desalination plant expansion – MEL

CyD Ingeniería along with the North American company CDM Smith and the client’s team, are awarded the construction management of the expansion project of the Minera Escondida Ltda. (MEL) desalination plant, part of the BHP group. This plant is the largest desalination plant in South America and will minimize the mine’s consumption of inland water.

Codelco’s Chuquicamata Underground project

CyD Ingeniería, along with a Chilean partner are awarded the contract for professional support services for Codelco’s Chuquicamata Underground project. This important milestone marks the beginning of future services provided to the state-owned copper company.

Line 7 – Santiago Metro

CyD Ingeniería, with other partners are awarded the detailed engineering of section B of Line 7. This contract is an addition to the management services that CyD Ingeniería has been provided to Metro.

Bogotá Metro

Within the framework of internationalization and due to its expertise with Santiago Metro and Merval, CyD Ingeniería, through a Chilean-French-Colombian consortium is awarded the management of the first line of Bogotá subway system, one of the most important projects in Colombia, which will contribute to improve the quality of life of thousands of families in that city.

Welfare Committee (Comité de Cuidado)

As Chile and the world adapts to the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Welfare Committee (Comité de Cuidado) is created, with the aim of looking ofter the well-being of CyD Ingeniería’s employees, thus joining the Corporate Volunteer Program. Both initiatives are part of the company’s culture and respond to the principles and values of SER CyD.

45th Anniversary

CyD Ingeniería celebrates its 45th anniversary with a team of more than 2,500 collaborators, professionals of various specialties who stationed throughout Chile and abroad.

Change in the general management

CyD Ingeniería undergoes a new generational transfer process to face new challenges. Rodrigo Mujica Barros takes over as the new General Manager of the company and Hugo Ortiz Sembler becomes the new Executive Vice President of the Board of Directors.

AVO II Concession

CyD Ingeniería is awarded the supervision of the Américo Vespucio Oriente II (AVO II) works, a new subway urban highway of more than 5 kilometers in length with an investment of US$ 700 million.

Santiago Metro

CyD Ingeniería, along with a Chilean partner are awarded the detailed engineering for the extension of Line 6, as well as 6 stations of section A of Line 7. At the same time, the development of the conceptual engineering for Lines 8 and 9 beging followed by the basic engineering of Line 9, among other projects.

Codelco desalination plant

CyD Ingeniería, with North American partners, are awarded the counterpart engineering support during construction and commissioning of the desalination plant and water conveyance system for Codelco Distrito Norte which will reduce inland water consumption.

Hospitals, mining and energy

As of today the company partakes on the most important public hospital projects of the country, providing advisory services to the inspection during construction and operation. In addition CyD has an outstanding participation in important mining contracts with more than 1,200 professionals. Ans also actively participates in renewable energy projects with multiple clients.

Thanks to its wide experience in various fields, CyD Ingeniería remains as a reference in the field of consulting engineering in Chile.

CyD Ingeniería Perú

As part of our internationalization process, the CyD Ingeniería management team is created in Peru. The supervision of the construction of the Vía Expresa Santa Rosa, an urban motorway connecting Costa Verde with the Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, stands out.