Rafael del Pino y Moreno (* 10 November 1920 in Madrid) is a Spanish building contractor. It carries "Rey del Ladrillo for the surnames "(dt. king of the brick) and applies after Amancio Ortega as the secondaryrichest man of Spain. Its fortune and that its family became estimated from the Forbes of magazines on 5 billion US Dollar.

Del Pino created 1952 the building contractor Ferrovial, which supplied the Renfe first in the Spanish post-war period also from Germany imported railway sleepers. When into the 1960er years the undergrounds were extended of Madrid and Barcelona, Ferrovial was also involved in it. At the same time the company expanded its business field also on road construction and the co-operation at the large dam projects of the Franco time. After the assumption of different enterprises since center of the 1990er years is Ferrovial today the second largest building contractor in Spain and has more than 23,000 coworkers. Among other things duty-requiring roads in Chicago, Ireland, Portugal and Chile as well as numerous interiorurban parking lots belong to it. The enterprise operates airports in Bristol, Belfast, Sydney and Chile. In February 2006 Ferrovial offered 8.7 billion Pound for the assumption of BAA, to the operator of the largest British airports (Heathrow, Gatwick); the offer was however rejected.

Rafael del Pino delivered the post of the chairman of the board of its enterprise in the year 2000 to its son Rafael del Pino y Calvo Sotelo. To the family del Pino 58% it belong enterprise. Del Pino dedicates itself since its retreat from the company above all to that sails on its high-seaworthy, very comfortable boat Alcor. It is married with Ana Calvo Sotelo (sister of the former Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo) and has five children.

Related links

• http://www.ferrovial.es/ homepage Grupo Ferrovial (splinter /engl.)
• http://www.fundacionrafaeldelpino.es/ donation Rafael del Pino (assigns among other things scholarships)
• http://www.el-mundo.es/sudinero/99/SD159/SD159-02.html Gonzlez and Alvaro "El Patriarca de la in El Mundo from 14 February 1999.
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/story/0,,1705651,00.html Andrew Clark, "The empire OF the brick king", in The Guardian from 9 February 2006.

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