March 3, 2026
The water tower could be ready at the end of 2026 after undertaking works for 11 million
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The water tower could be ready at the end of 2026 after undertaking works for 11 million

Aug 1, 2025

The public company Expo Saragossa Business has brought out the adaptation works of the Torre del Agua, one of the icons of the sample held in 2008, so that it shows again with the same force at the end of next year 2026. More specifically it is two contracts worth joint value of 11.2 million euros (without VAT) and that are target the horizon of the International Logistics Congress of February 2027.

Regarding the first, it includes the works of adaptation of the building for 5.9 million without taxes. As explained by the Minister of Development, Mobility and Logistics of the Government of Aragon, Octavio López, and according to the project that also went to the contest, two exhibition halls, another of conferences, a glazed viewpoint on the 25th floor and a restaurant with views abroad on the 23rd on the 23rd, this chapter of the works also covers the electrical installations, air conditioning, communications and the mechanical stairs will be enabled inside.

During these tasks the ‘Splash’ hanging sculpture will be covered and the counselor has opened the door to include other characteristic elements of the 2008 Expo, although there is nothing decided. Nor in relation to restaurant management. The deadlines point to the last quarter of this year for the start of the works, until the end of the next.

The second tender, for 5.6 million without VAT, consists of the supply and placement of the new luminaries of the facade, one of the main novelties of the project so that the tower is “a lighthouse of logistics”, as Octavio López has qualified again. In his words, it will be “a unique element of great visual impact” and consisting of 9,000 square meters. The exterior work would start in the first quarter of 2026.

The manager of Expo Zaragoza Empresarial. Pedro Sas, has assured that “in Spain There is nothing similar ”today, according to designers. For their part, López has clarified that the possibility of placing advertisements or advertising motifs is not ruled out, although everything is in an initial phase.

The drafting of the facade project was awarded to the Aragonese company Oboria Digital. It is the designer company of the Las Vegas sphere and other international projects.