"Zone of Peace, Sustainable Development and Security" was the guiding principle of the Declaration of Managua, signed in 2007 by the presidents of El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua to convert the Gulf of Fonseca into a prosperous region. Since then, the three governments have enhanced this ...

The Master Plan for the Rehabilitation of the centre of the City of Manaus has been awarded the Prize for Best Practices by the Brazilian Council of Architecture and Urbanism of Pernambuco (CAU/PE) and the United Nations Program for Urban Settlements (UN-Habitat). The award was presented to ...

IDOM participated in the 2017 Summer Course of the International Menéndez Pelayo University (UIMP) on “The Management of Environmental Assets and their impact on the Resilience of Cities”. Within the framework of these summer courses, the Minister of Public Works of the Government of Spain, ...

Thanks to its geo-strategic position and the achievement of major engineering projects (expansion of the canal, construction of the metro network, creation of metropolitan corridors ...), Panama City has reinforced itself as the main financial centre of the region. However, this rapid growth and ...

The Special Economic Zones (SEZs) project emerges as an initiative of the Mexican Federal Executive and is part of the strategy to detonate territorial development through dynamic economic poles that boost productivity at regional level and reduce asymmetries among Mexican states, especially ...

Since the launch of the emerging and sustainable cities initiative (ESCI) in 2010, IDOM, with the support of our network of offices in South America, has been collaborating with the International Development Bank (IDB). So far, we have assisted over 30 medium-sized cities considered as emerging. ...

Throughout 2015, IDOM collaborated with the different authorities in the elaboration of the Regional Programs of Urban Development and Ecological Planning and the Master Plan for the creation of a world-class urban centre, capable of offering a dynamic urban lifestyle which is safe for its ...

The automaker Audi has selected the town of San José Chiapa, in the Mexican state of Puebla, for their new plant. Up to 150,000 vehicles a year will be produced at the plant which will be spread over some 600 hectares. This project will boost not just employment but also the tradition of the ...