The Sener Foundation, the non-profit organisation of the Sener group, has signed a collaboration agreement with Ingeniería para la Cooperación-Lankidetzarako Ingeniaritza (ICLI) and the association TADEH (Appropriate Technologies for Human Development) to jointly implement an initiative aimed at improving access to water in vulnerable rural communities, primarily in Africa and South America.

The project seeks to design a water extraction pump with the objective of developing an open, efficient solution tailored to the specific needs of the environment in which it will be deployed, thereby enabling more sustainable and reliable access to this essential resource.

The initiative brings together complementary capabilities and extensive experience across different fields. On the one hand, Sener professionals will participate through the Sener Foundation’s volunteer programme, contributing their expertise and experience in the development of engineering solutions. On the other hand, TADEH will provide its experience in delivering training courses in isolated rural areas for the construction of water supply and sanitation systems, while ICLI will contribute its track record in implementing cooperation and sustainable development projects in rural and vulnerable communities.

The partnership between the Sener Foundation, ICLI and TADEH is founded on a shared conviction: that engineering achieves its greatest value when placed at the service of society. Remaining true to the mission for which it was established, the Sener Foundation promotes initiatives that reinforce the socially responsible nature of engineering and technology, channelling the expertise and commitment of Sener professionals towards projects with a positive social impact. This new collaboration demonstrates how knowledge, innovation and joint effort can help broaden access to essential resources such as water and create a lasting positive impact on the communities that need it most.

Engineering and technology group Sener has once again been ranked as Spain’s leading international design engineering firm in the 2026 edition of the Engineering News-Record (ENR) rankings, the sector’s leading international publication. The company rises to 36th place in the “Top 225 International Design Firms”, up from 38th in 2025, continuing its progress among the world’s leading engineering firms.

The “Top 225 International Design Firms” ranks the world’s leading engineering and design companies by revenue generated from projects carried out outside their home country. Sener’s position reflects the importance of international activity to its business: in 2025, 88% of the group’s sales came from international markets, with a growing presence across different geographies. These results position Sener as the highest-ranked Spanish engineering firm in the classification.

In addition to the overall ranking, ENR analyses firms’ international activity across different sectors. In Manufacturing, a category covering projects related to industrial and manufacturing facilities, Sener ranks fifth worldwide, moving up two places from seventh in 2025.

Sener also advances in the “Top 150 Global Design Firms”, which ranks companies by total revenue from design and engineering services, including both domestic and international activity. The company reaches 94th place, up from 104th in the previous edition. The ten-place rise further underscores the group’s global growth over the past year.

Meanwhile, in the “Top 250 International Contractors” ranking, Sener ranks seventh among non-US firms, further strengthening its international position in the integrated management of major projects.  The ranking assesses leading international firms in construction management and program management, recognising their ability to manage and coordinate highly complex programmes.

Sener’s performance comes against a backdrop of growing international activity across the engineering sector. The 225 companies included in the ranking collectively generated $97.6 billion in international revenue in 2025, up 9.2% on the previous year. According to ENR, this growth is being driven by increasing global demand for new infrastructure, the expansion of data centres and artificial intelligence, as well as continued progress in the energy transition.

The results achieved in this year’s ENR rankings support Sener’s international strategy, which is based on diversification and technological innovation, while further strengthening its position among the world’s leading engineering companies. The group combines a multidisciplinary offering with the expertise and capacity to deliver highly complex projects across different sectors and geographies.

The Sener group reported revenue of €933 million in 2025, representing growth of 31.4% year on year, while EBITDA reached €121.5 million. The results reflect strong momentum across all the Group’s businesses, including Mobility (transport and infrastructure), Aerospace and Defence, Energy, and Quark, its specialist data centre design subsidiary.

Robust order intake and the award of new projects across all business areas increased the group’s order backlog to €1.912 billion, up 23.8% compared with the previous year. These results reinforce Sener’s confidence in the talent of its people, the continued expansion of its industrial capabilities, and its ability to develop highly innovative proprietary engineering and technology solutions.

Sener’s growth trajectory is supported by a workforce of 4,500 professionals, around 40% of whom are based in international offices outside Spain. International markets account for 88% of the Group’s revenue. Growth has been particularly strong in English-speaking markets—notably Canada, Australia and the United States—as well as in Central Europe, especially Germany.

Key market highlights in 2025

During 2025, Sener strengthened its business portfolio through the award of new contracts and the delivery of flagship projects across multiple markets.

In Aerospace and Defence, Sener has continued to make progress in highly demanding technology programmes. In 2025, a major milestone was achieved with the first-ever coronagraphic observation of the Sun’s corona through the creation of an artificial eclipse between the two satellites of the Proba-3 mission, led by Sener on behalf of the European Space Agency. The company also remains actively involved in major space programmes, including the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, SpainSat NG and QKD LEO, which is developing a low-Earth-orbit quantum key distribution demonstrator. In Defence, Sener continues to contribute to several leading international missile programmes, providing industrial capabilities for systems including IRIS-T, METEOR, Taurus KEPD 350 and the Patriot missile system (PAC-2 and PAC-3), among others.

This position is further supported by the expansion of Sener’s industrial capabilities. Following the completion of facility extensions in Tres Cantos and Zamudio, the company will double the footprint dedicated to its Space and Defence activities, bringing total surface area to more than 40,000 square metres.

In Energy, Sener continues to expand its activity through projects focused on power generation, energy autonomy and decarbonisation. The company is involved in liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure and combined-cycle power plants designed to accommodate the future use of hydrogen. Key projects include German LNG, Germany’s first onshore LNG storage and regasification terminal, and Gate Terminal in the Netherlands. Sener has also continued to strengthen its presence in Northern Europe, where it is currently involved in five major EPC projects.

In Mobility, Sener continued to expand its international presence across a number of key markets, with Canada standing out as a strategic growth area. The company is involved in major urban transport projects, including the Scarborough Subway Extension. Elsewhere, it has strengthened its local footprint through offices in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa. In the Middle East, Sener is contributing to some of the region’s most significant transport infrastructure developments, including the Abu Qir Metro in Alexandria, the Saudi Landbridge project in Saudi Arabia, and the Abu Dhabi–Dubai high-speed rail connection in the United Arab Emirates. Sener also continues to advance its portfolio of proprietary, high-value solutions. These include Epigea, a system developed from its patented Hypogea retractable turf technology.

Through Quark, Sener has further strengthened its position in the global data centre market, a strategic sector underpinning the growth of artificial intelligence and critical digital infrastructure. The subsidiary has now surpassed one million square metres of IT white space designed, with more than 100 facilities designed worldwide and over 2 GW of IT capacity delivered. Quark has contributed to major international projects for clients including Equinix. Recent milestones include the opening of the MD5 data centre in Alcobendas, which provides more than 4,400 square metres of colocation space and has been designed to support mission-critical environments and high-density workloads associated with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence.

The engineering and technology group Sener has launched Dcode, its new business unit specialising in the digital market. With this move, it becomes one of the first major engineering firms to combine advanced sector expertise (in markets such as energy, infrastructure and mobility, data centres, or aerospace and defence) with the delivery of digital services, offering a deep understanding of clients’ end products and operational environments.

Specifically, Dcode will focus on four main areas of activity: data, advanced analytics, AI and OT/IT cybersecurity—OT referring to operational technologies, those that control and monitor devices through industrial control systems, robotics or sensors, among other means, in order to improve and safeguard physical processes. IT refers to information technologies, encompassing data, networks and computers.

“The launch of Dcode represents a natural step in our evolution as a technology group. We bring something unique to the market: we are not only experts in digitalisation, but we also understand the infrastructure, the system and the end product from our clients’ perspective—an integrated vision that enables us to design solutions with significant added value,” says Esteban Álvarez, Managing Director of Dcode at Sener. “With Dcode, we reaffirm our commitment to innovation and technological transformation, consolidating our position as a key player in the digitalisation of complex industrial sectors. Thanks to the combination of advanced digital capabilities and deep knowledge of the businesses in which we operate, we offer a distinctive value compared with other market proposals.”

Esteban Álvarez, Managing Director of Dcode.

Dcode’s business plan envisages selective inorganic growth in areas of industrial digitalisation that can complement its technological capabilities, combined with organic growth. The latter will focus on data, AI and cybersecurity services in those markets and geographies where Sener already has a strong presence and deep expertise. Today, Dcode primarily provides services in infrastructure, mobility, energy and the healthcare sector.

The Board of Directors of the Sener Group has approved the appointment of Gabriel Vera Artázcoz as its new Secretary. In this capacity, he will support the Chair and ensure the proper functioning of the Board, safeguarding the formal and material legality of its actions.

He will combine this role with the secretariat of the boards of the Group’s main businesses (comprising 4,500 professionals specialising in the aerospace and defence, mobility and transport infrastructure, energy, and data centre markets), the oversight of compliance with corporate obligations across its companies, and the provision of legal advice on acquisitions and restructurings (M&A), a responsibility he has held to date.

Gabriel Vera holds a degree in Law from the University of Navarra. He has completed the General Management Programme (PDD) at IESE Business School and the Executive Programme for Directors in Good Corporate Governance at the Study Centre of the Madrid Bar Association.

He began his professional career at Garrigues as a corporate lawyer. In 2010, he joined Sener, where he worked on project contracting in the energy and infrastructure sectors, as well as on their legal management. Between 2019 and 2024, he served as Director of Legal Affairs for the Aerospace and Defence division. During this period, he advised the Group on several corporate restructurings, as well as on the acquisitions carried out by Sener in recent years: Tryo (2018), Tactix (2022), Quark (2023) and SCR (2024).

The Sener Foundation has been recognised by the NGO Ingeniería para la Cooperación / Lankidetzarako Ingeniaritza (ICLI) during the organisation’s 30th anniversary celebrations. The award was collected by the director of the Sener Foundation, Rosana Madroñal, from the president of ICLI, Miguel López.

The event took place on 21 November at TECNUN – School of Engineering of the University of Navarra, in San Sebastián, and brought together various ICLI collaborators from Bizkaia, Araba and Gipuzkoa to celebrate three decades of commitment to development cooperation and engineering at the service of people.

The collaboration between the Sener Foundation, Sener and ICLI has been consolidated over the years through joint projects that reflect a shared vision of a more just and sustainable world. These include the project ‘Strengthening the socio-productive chain of granulated panela in the Sierra de Piura (Peru)’, carried out by volunteers from the Sener Foundation, as well as the donation of computer equipment and office supplies to support the initiatives that ICLI develops in different countries.

Rosana Madroñal, director of the Sener Foundation, said: ‘For the Sener Foundation, accompanying ICLI on this anniversary reaffirms our conviction that engineering and technology can change people’s lives and help build a fairer world. Together, we celebrate not only the achievements made, but also the challenges that inspire us to continue working.’

The director of the Sener Foundation, Rosana Madroñal, and the president of ICLI, Miguel López.