Construction

Our Construction specialty, which has been at the forefront since our bureau was first established, has a team of qualified specialists who accumulate decades of experience and knowledge, acquired through participation in the resolution of the most relevant losses in Spain.

Types of losses

CIVIL WORKS

• Linear works: roads, railways, gas pipelines, etc.
• Geotech: cuttings, embankments
• Maritime works: ports, marine outfalls, rockfill protections
• Dams
• Underground works: Tunnels, Galleries, Cut and Cower
• Hydraulic works and installations
• Mining

BUILDINGS

• Singular works
• Infrastructure, developments
• Serial constructions

RTS LCC

• RTS also has a LCC Division, comprising qualified technical professionals with proven experience, who are active on site.

Our experience

• Given the links between all the listed types, we have handled losses involving Technicians’ Professional Liability; Decennial Insurance; ALOP, EPC contracts and PML calculations.
• Over more than 20 years, this experience has expanded to LATAM, Africa, the US, rest of Europe and currently Australia.
• In Spain, the team is made up of 30 professionals: civil engineers, public works engineers and building engineers, architects and technical architects, who have participated in over 50,000 losses.

Some of the losses we have intervened in:

In Spain

• Expo-Sevilla fire
• Superport of Bilbao
• Boliden / Aznalcóllar, tailings pond
• Broken water tanks in Melilla and Arganda, Madrid
• Collapse of the Ermua Sports Centre
• Flooding of the Maghreb gas pipeline
• Fire in Sacromonte, Granada
• Design defect of the Kursal auditorium, San Sebastián
• Collapse of the AVE high-speed train tunnels, Barcelona and Sevilla
• Claims involving the underground systems of Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid and Sevilla
• Breakwaters (sea storms) in Tenerife, Barcelona, Rota, Coruña, Menorca, Tarragona…
• Losses in the Montblanc tunnel, Cataluña
• River floodings in Zaragoza, Andalucía, Cataluña, the Levant…
• Viaducts of La Herradura, Granada. Design defects.
• Fire at the Fórum, in Barcelona
• Fire at the Swedish Embassy in Madrid
• Carmel Tunnel, Barcelona
• Breakwater collapse in Barcelona

Outside of Spain

• Floods in Monterrey, México
• Earthquake, Chile
• El Niño floods, Chile
• Olympic Stadium, Tunisia
• Desalination plants, Algeria
• Maghreb gas pipeline, Morocco
• Thermal power plant assembly, Portugal
• Floods in Portugal/Azores
• Viaduct collapse, Azores
• Hurricanes, México
• Floods, Germany
• Professional liability, design, US
• Professional liability, design, Indonesia.
• Professional liability, design, Poland
• Storm-Combined Cycle, Algeria.
• Burying-Quito, Ecuador
• Soil collapse, Panamá and Guatemala
• Storm, Perú
• Motorways, Colombia