Since 2020, when Sorigué took on the construction of the CaixaForum Valencia, the group’s delegation in this region has not stopped growing. That 6,500 m² project has become an architectural benchmark for the Valencian Community and has opened the door to several important local projects.  
Various educational institutions, a wastewater treatment plant and a busy avenue all carry the group’s quality seal. Unstoppable work to demonstrate that innovation and sustainability are closely linked to development. The Valencian Community Regional Office is currently making progress on the following projects. 
 
Construction of the first Infant, Primary and Secondary School (CEIPSO) in Alicante 
 
With capacity for 560 pupils, from 2 years old to 4th year of compulsory secondary education (ESO), the Virgen Pobre Infant, Primary and Compulsory Secondary Education School (CEIPSO) in the town of Xaló is the first combined junior and secondary school in the province of Alicante. In addition to the expectations of the municipality’s educational community, which has been demanding an institution of this kind for years, there is the challenge of articulating different types of classrooms and sports courts in three independent sections. On a plot of 10,377m², a U-shaped structure has been designed to accommodate the three blocks, each consisting of a ground floor plus two upper floors. The infant school is located on the ground floor, the primary school is on the first floor and the secondary school is distributed between the first and second floors. 
 
The €8.1 million investment will be deployed in two phases: the first phase will be ready in the first quarter of 2023 and will allow the opening of classrooms for pupils from 2 years old to 1st year ESO. From March, when the old infant and primary school will be demolished, the works will enter the second phase to build the gymnasium and the sports courts. The new combined junior and secondary school will be a fully air-conditioned building and the infant school section will have underfloor heating to offer more warmth. With a four-month completion period, the useful built surface area exceeds 5,000 m², in addition to 7,500 m² of playgrounds, sports courts, green areas and a school garden.  
 
Refurbishment of the Tabarca wastewater system 
 
The high influx of visitors to the island of Tabarca, Alicante in the summer season exerts great pressure on an insufficient wastewater treatment system, threatening the Tabarca Marine Reserve and the ecosystems in the area. The remodelling project awarded to Sorigué has a budget of €1.6m and includes the construction of a 5 km underwater outfall to carry wastewater from the island to the Martínez Valero pumping station, located in the municipality of Santa Pola. This station will also be extended and equipped with 5 new centrifugal pumps with an installed power of 30 kW. 
 
With the underwater works underway and the start of the refurbishment of the Tabarca WWTP and the Santa Pola WWPS, the work is expected to be completed before the summer of 2023. 
 
Building Canet Secondary School  
 
The municipality of Canet d’en Berenguer will have a new fully sustainable secondary school. With a budget of €7.7 million, the IES Canet project is being developed on a 10,000 m² plot to provide 5,485 m² of built infrastructure. The building has an energy rating of AA, is air-conditioned by air source heat pumps and has a photovoltaic energy production system of over 100 kW. 

The facilities have a capacity for 550 students across 12 groups of compulsory secondary education (ESO) and 4 upper secondary education groups. The ground floor comprises technology and science classrooms, a laboratory, multi-purpose rooms, a library, a music room, a caretaker’s office, a staff room and offices, among other spaces, while the first floor houses the ESO and upper secondary classrooms. Finally, an annex building will be constructed, connected to the main building by a covered walkway, to house the gymnasium and changing rooms. 
 
Development of the new multi-purpose building for the UMH headquarters in Altea 
 
The campus of Miguel Hernández University (UMH) in Altea, Alicante will have a new multi-purpose building called ’Mascarat’. A project designed by Arkítera and executed by Sorigué with a built area of 1,621.50 m². The facility is characterised by a large, textured façade, which gives the impression of lightness. This concept follows some of Le Corbusier’s criteria, as by reducing the weightiness of the volumes through different finishing patterns, achieving a ’dematerialisation’ of rotund volumes, creating an architecture that is large in size but light in appearance. 
 
With an investment of €2.6m, the new building has two floors distributed over 550 m². Among other auxiliary spaces, ’Mascarat’ has an assembly hall with capacity for 350 people, language and training classrooms, accommodation for guest professors, an office area and an exhibition hall. The latter, with a minimum usable area of 80 m², is located on the east façade of the building and extends up to the first floor. 
 
The design of the building maintains the same aesthetic line of the rest of the buildings at the university headquarters, in coherence with the characteristics of the location and the traditional image of Altea, mainly in terms of the materials used and the colour criteria.  
 
Improvement works for the pedestrian use of Avenida del Doctor Gadea in Alicante 
 
Avenida del Doctor Gadea, located in the centre of Alicante, is being completely restructured to make it more sustainable by reducing the number of vehicle lanes, widening the pedestrian area and reducing the speed of traffic.The project, with an investment of €2.5 million, includes the installation of tactile paving and the elimination of architectural barriers for greater accessibility, as well as a comprehensive intervention to renovate the public lighting network, the irrigation network, the traffic lights and the rainwater drainage system.  
 
The redevelopment project for this major avenue is part of a package of works to establish a Low Emissions Zone (LEZ) to encourage walking, cycling and other sustainable modes of transport. This will improve air quality and ensure greater convenience for pedestrian and commercial traffic between Alicante’s Ensanche Diputación district and the coastline.  
 
In addition to this delegation in Valencia, the Sorigué Group deploys its activity in Spain through branches in Lleida, Barcelona and Madrid and eight work centres located in Badalona, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Tarragona, Palma de Mallorca, Zaragoza, Huesca, Granada and Seville.