KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Eduardo Andrade, a longtime executive in the
Mexico energy industry, has joined
Burns & McDonnell as its general director in Mexico for Burns & McDonnell Services S.A.
de C.V. In that role, he will oversee the company's pursuit of
power generation and electrical transmission projects as
Mexico moves quickly to upgrade
its energy infrastructure. Over the past 30 years, Andrade has
served in a variety of executive roles for large companies in
Mexico with significant operations
in the energy sector.
"Mexico is quickly becoming a
first-world economy thanks to investments in the power and energy
sectors and Eduardo has been a key influencer in that process due
to his professional and civic roles over the past several years,"
says Mike Brown, President of Burns
& McDonnell International. "We're thrilled to have him on our
team and ready to get to work helping Mexico achieve its potential on the global
stage."
"I have spent my entire career advocating for investments and
improvements to Mexico's power and
energy sectors because I believe strongly this is the best way
forward to improve the lives of my fellow countrymen," says
Andrade. "This opportunity to lead Burns & McDonnell, the
number one power firm in America, to bring their skills and
expertise to my home country of Mexico is a dream come true."
Prior to joining Burns & McDonnell
Andrade was Executive President for Mexico for Sacyr, where he was responsible for
a number of business initiatives related to recently enacted
constitutional reforms in Mexico.
Sacyr is a multi-national corporation with engineering and
construction projects in 29 countries across five continents. In
addition, Andrade has held executive positions with Iberdrola, a
Spanish energy company with global operations, and Techint, the
world's second largest steel producer with additional businesses in
construction and oil and gas production.
Andrade is a founder of the Mexico Energy Association and the
Energy Chapter with the Canadian Mexico partnership. He is a past
president of the World Energy Council, Mexico Chapter, and
currently serves on the Mexico Energy Regulatory Commission's
External Advisory Board for electricity. He holds a civil
engineering degree, with concentration in project management, from
Universidad de Mexico and a
graduate degree in corporate finance from ITESM (Instituto
Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey).
In 2016, Burns & McDonnell established an office in
Mexico City to pursue
engineering/procure/construct (EPC) project opportunities in the
power and energy sectors.
Earlier this year, the company was certified by the Centro
Nacional de Control De Energía (CENACE), enabling the company
to gain access to critical data on grid performance and other
system performance measures as a means to offer engineering
consulting services to clients and the system operator. The
certification has enabled Burns & McDonnell to develop master
plans on a number of improvements that are necessary to improve
system reliability and resilience. Formed in 2013 in the wake
of a reform of Mexico's energy
industry, CENACE is Mexico's
independent system operator for the country's electrical grid.
Burns & McDonnell has had a presence in Mexico for more than 100 years, beginning in
1908 when company founders Clinton
Burns and Robert McDonnell
won a bid to develop a hydroelectric project for El Tigre Mining.
Over the following decades, the company has engineered and built a
number of projects, including a massive new wastewater treatment
facility in Monterrey that was the
largest treatment facility in Mexico when completed in 1997.
Mexico implemented far-reaching
reforms of its power and energy industries in 2014 after decades of
monopoly control by state-run enterprises PEMEX and Comisión
Federal de Electricidad (CFE). Both sectors are now open to private
investment by both U.S. and international businesses. Solar, wind
and gas-fired generating facilities are being added to the
Mexico grid while other projects
are being planned to upgrade its power transmission and
distribution system.
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