ULMA Construction
{{Short description|Spanish business}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}
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| name = ULMA Construction
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| type = Cooperative
| industry = Construction
| num_employees = 2,025
| num_employees_year = 2021
| founded =
| founders = Pedro Ugarte
Esteban Lizarralde
Julián Lizarralde
Isidro Mendiola
Ignacio Maiztegi
Julián Ayastu
| hq_location =
| hq_location_city = Oñati
| hq_location_country = Spain
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = {{ubl|Raúl García (president)|Aitor Ayastuy (general director)}}
| products = Construction, formwork, scaffolding
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| subsid = 25
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| website = {{URL|https://www.ulmaconstruction.com/}}
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ULMA Construction is a Spanish company that produces and distributes industrialized formwork and scaffolding systems for building, civil works, and rehabilitation. Ulma is operating in 80 countries on five continents through the rental and sale of its services and products, technical project development, and on-site consultancy.{{Cite web|title=Concrete in Canada: Q&A with ULMA Construction {{!}} UrbanToronto|url=https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2020/07/concrete-canada-qa-ulma-construction|access-date=2022-02-21|website=urbantoronto.ca}}
History
ULMA Construction was founded in 1961 in Oñati (Guipúzcoa), as Sociedad Cooperativa Industrial Talleres ULMA, engaged in the manufacture of packaging. In 1963 it started working in the building sector and introduced the first pre-fabricated scaffolding.
Its global expansion began in Portugal (where the first subsidiary was created in 1980), France, Argentina and Chile. The cooperative split up into new businesses between 1984 and 1985: packaging and building. A year later, ENARA Cooperative joined them and they formed the Oñalán Group, renamed ULMA Group in 1992. The group has a presence in 80 countries, 4,500 employees, and a turnover of 700 million euros. By the end of 2021, ULMA Construction had 2,025 employees.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-16 |title=Grupo Ulma y Orona salen de Mondragon, que pierde así un 15% del conjunto de sus ventas industriales |url=https://www.europapress.es/economia/noticia-grupo-ulma-orona-salen-mondragon-pierde-asi-15-conjunto-ventas-industriales-20221216190241.html |access-date=2022-12-22 |publisher=Europa Press}} File:Harborside Tower 1 NY. ULMAConstruction.jpg
Projects and works
ULMA Construction has carried out construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance of all kinds of buildings, such as bridges and viaducts to tunnels, hydraulic works and water treatment plants, as well as towers, high-rise buildings, schools and universities, stadiums, sacred and corporate buildings.{{cite web
|title=Arc de Triomphe : une rénovation de haute voltige pour les échafaudages Ulma
|url=https://www.constructioncayola.com/infrastructures/article/2014/06/03/93029/arc-triomphe-une-renovation-haute-voltige-pour-les-echafaudages-ulma.php
|access-date=2015-05-31
|title=Spring Street Salt Shed
|url=http://www.construction-today.com/sections/institutional/2149-oliveira-contracting-spring-street-salt-shed
|access-date=2015-05-31
|title=Bridges in Sunderland and Poland are being slid into place
|url=http://www.worldhighways.com/categories/road-highway-structures/features/bridges-in-sunderland-and-poland-are-being-slid-into-place/
|access-date=2015-05-31
}}{{cite web|title=Ulma per la Metro BLU di Milano
|date=17 July 2017
|url=http://www.edilportale.com/news/2017/07/aziende/ulma-per-la-metro-blu-di-milano_59148_5.html
|access-date=2017-09-20
|title=Das Herz von Köln wird gebaut
|url=https://www.this-magazin.de/artikel/tis_Das_Herz_von_Koeln_wird_gebaut_2652019.html
|access-date=2015-05-31
|title=Q22, um arranha-céu sustentável no centro de Varsóvia
|url=http://blog.arcelormittal.com.br/q22-um-arranha-ceu-sustentavel/
|access-date=2015-05-31
|title=Sichtbeton-halle für Grundschule
|url=https://www.this-magazin.de/artikel/tis_Sichtbeton-halle_fuer_Grundschule_2457099.html
|access-date=2015-05-31
|title=Mané Garrincha Stadium
|url=https://structurae.net/structures/mane-garrincha-stadium-2013-brasilia
|access-date=2017-09-20
|title=ULMA takes part on the construction project of the new office building Eschborn in Germany
|url=https://tunnels-infrastructures.com/ulma-office-building-eschborn/
|access-date=2015-05-31
}}
It has safety systems certified by renowned companies such as GSV, AENOR, and AIDICO. These guarantee the collective protection of workers on-site, with working platforms for the formwork of walls and pillars, access ladders to the different work areas, scaffolding and walkways for work at height, and perimeter protection systems (inside holes or slabs edges).{{cite web
|title=Safety and Innovation integrated in the formwork and scaffolding systems developed by ULMA Construction
|url=http://safetycommunity.com/profiles/blogs/safety-and-innovation-integrated-in-the-formwork-and-scaffoldin-1/
|access-date=2015-05-31
}}
= Works carried out with ULMA Construction Formwork =
- Hudson Yards, New York City, United States. Central building construction, comprising four elevator shafts, in 10 Hudson Yards.{{cite web
|title=Skyscraper projects carried out with self climbing systems
|url=https://www.1src.com/video/t_JN9kF-eaXfY
|access-date=2017-09-20
}}
- Port of Bayovar, (Peru). Construction of two large silos in one of the biggest South American phosphate fields.{{cite web
|title=Obras civiles impulsarán crecimiento del sector construcción
|url=http://gestion.pe/empresas/ulma-obras-civiles-impulsaran-crecimiento-sector-construccion-2143517
|access-date=2017-09-20
}}
- Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha (Brasilia, Brazil). Construction of the compression ring.{{cite web
|title=ULMA Construction estará en los Juegos Olímpicos de Brasil 2016
|url=https://www.tulankide.com/es/ulma-construction-estara-en-los-juegos-olimpicos-de-brasil-2016
|access-date=2017-09-20
}}
- Prague Metro, Prague (Czech Republic). Technical service support for the widest tunnel in the Czech Republic.
- El Cajón Dam, Grande de Santiago River (México).{{cite web
|title=Proyecto hidráulico en México
|url=http://www.project-redupre.eu/Mon-28/7005_proyecto-hidr%C3%A1ulico-en-m%C3%A9xico.html
|access-date=2017-09-20
}}
- Palace of Versailles, Paris, (France). Restoration of the roof over the Ambassador's Staircase.
- La Pepa Bridge, Bay of Cádiz (Spain). Construction of several deck sections in the world's second tallest bridge.
- Harborside, Jersey City (New Jersey). Construction work in the tallest residential buildings in New Jersey.{{cite web
|title=Ulma, presente en las obras del metro de Riad y de una torre en Nueva Jersey
|url=http://www.icex.es/icex/es/navegacion-principal/que-es-icex/donde-estamos/red-territorial-de-comercio/navegacion-principal/noticias/NEW2017729468.html?idComunidad=4&utm_medium=ICEX.es&utm_content=07082017&
|access-date=2017-09-20
}}
- Empire Outlets, New York City. Formwork and shoring systems in the commercial area, hotel, and parking lot in Staten Island.{{cite web
|title=ULMA participa en el proyecto de construcción del Empire Outlets de Nueva York
|url=https://obrasurbanas.es/ulma-empire-outlets-nueva-york/
|access-date=2017-09-20
}}
- Museo Fundazione Prada, Milan (Italy). Formwork and shoring solutions for the walls and slabs of the Fondazione Prada Museum. This museum combines pre-existing industrial buildings with new ones.{{cite web
|title=Soluciones innovadoras de encofrado en arquitectura de vanguardia
|url=https://www.interempresas.net/Construccion/Articulos/161840-Soluciones-innovadoras-de-encofrado-en-arquitectura-de-vanguardia.html
|access-date=2017-09-20
}}
- Milan Metro, Blu line, Milan (Italy). Refurbishment of the Argonne station on the new Milan Metropolitan Line.{{cite web
|title=Ulma per la Metro BLU di Milano
|date=17 July 2017
|url=http://www.edilportale.com/news/2017/07/aziende/ulma-per-la-metro-blu-di-milano_59148_5.html
|access-date=2017-09-20
}}
- Atlantic Station, Atlanta (Georgia). In a former post office building converted into a mixed-use residential development, formwork systems were used in one of the towers and the parking lot.{{cite web
|title=Building Transformation
|url=http://manufacturingnorthamerica.com/tag/ulma/
|access-date=2017-09-20
}}
- Jaworzno Power Station, Jaworzno (Poland). Engineering solutions, scaffolding, and formwork systems. The work on the powerhouse and the electrical and mechanical system's center was also monitored.{{cite web
|title=Solución integral ULMA en la ampliación de la Central Eléctrica Jaworzno III
|url=http://www.ecoconstruccion.net/noticias/solucion-integral-ulma-en-la-ampliacion-de-la-central-electrica-jaworzno-iii-fAngO
|access-date=2017-09-20
|title=Ulma Construccion Polska Sa Filia Jaworzno
|url=http://miejsce.katowice.gazeta.pl/miejsca_katowice/161720950/Ulma+Construccion+Polska+Sa+Filia+Jaworzno/miasto-Jaworzno/p/
|access-date=2017-09-20
}}
- Skyliner, Warsaw, Poland, specialized formwork systems for a 120m high skyscraper.{{Cite web |date=2022-06-10 |title=Innovation in high-rise construction |url=https://www.international-construction.com/news/innovation-in-high-rise-construction/8021311.article |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=International Construction |language=en}}
File:Wislok Bridge2 Polonia. ULMA Construction.jpg|Wislok Bridge, Poland
File:Puente de la Constitución de 1812, Cádiz 1. ULMA Construction.jpg|La Pepa Bridge, Cadiz (Spain)
File:Lima Electric Train 2. ULMA Construction.jpg|Lima Electric Train
File:Palace of Versailles. Restoration 1.jpg|Palace of Versailles, restoration
Social responsibility
In 2010, ULMA Construction contributed to the creation of the ULMA Foundation, donating 10% of its profits to social, sports, or socio-cultural projects of public interest in the Basque Country.{{cite web
|title = Projects that support the ULMA foundation in the CSR field
|url = http://www.fundacionulma.com/es/menu,colaboraciones/
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101013044109/http://www.fundacionulma.com/es/menu,colaboraciones/
|url-status = dead
|archive-date = 2010-10-13
|type = official page
|access-date = 2015-11-26
}}