Renovation of the Tres Chimeneas gardens in Barcelona’s Poble Sec neighbourhood is the first municipal project to feature the use of electric equipment as part of a global Barcelona City Council initiative designed to bake sustainable mobility into municipal procurement specifications.  

Sorigué is carrying out the renovation work in the area around the Tres Chimeneas with a 1500 kg site dumper, a portable battery, a forklift, grinders and hammers which are all electrically powered.  

Homs Rentals is the supplier of the equipment manufactured by German firm Wacker Neuson. Bimba, promoter of the project, and Socotec, an integrated energy solutions service, are also involved in the initiative.  

This is the first time that Barcelona City Council has started up a public works project using electrically-powered equipment and at the end of the job it plans to compare energy consumption, gas emissions, noise and thermal impact with conventional diesel-powered equipment.  

The idea is to phase in this requirement in tenders so that by 2030, 50% of the equipment used in the city will be less polluting.  

Sorigué has previously been involved in a pilot test run in 2022 as a private project for Aigües de Barcelona which consisted of replacing pipes in Balmes Street and Esplugues Avenue. The results were promising because energy costs were cut by one-sixth, CO2 emissions by one-third and noise was halved.