Today’s Official State Gazette publishes the Bilbao Port Authority announcement that it is putting back the deadline for submitting bids in the tender for the award of the contract to dispose of the land generated by the infill works to be undertaken in Deusto canal. The new deadline is 29 October (the previous one expired tomorrow, 27 September).

The Contract Award Board has begun demolition of the Vicinay Cadenas facilities. This is the last big demolishment to be undertaken in phase one of the Zorrotzaurre project. Vicinay Cadenas, the world’s leading offshore chain sling manufacturer, is the largest company that was located in Zorrotzaurre.

DigiPen, colloquially known as “the videogame university”, has kicked off the 2018-2019 academic year at its new location in Zorrotzaurre. The centre, which has moved from its previous facilities in Zierbena where it had been delivering specialised courses for eight years, begins the new academic year with a student body of 200 from fourteen different countries on the two undergraduate degree courses it offers. DigiPen has a 100% graduate employment rate and the centre has set itself a growth target of 75% in the first three years at its new premises. DigiPen has leased facilities in the former Beta 1…