The CSD High Performance Centers in Madrid, León and Sierra Nevada will complete in 2025 the biggest modernization process in their history

• The energy efficiency of these spaces will be optimised, with the aim of reducing the demand for non-renewable primary energy and CO2 emissions by at least 30%.

• In addition, digitisation and accessibility will be promoted to enrich the experience of high-level athletes using these facilities.

Madrid, 7 February 2025.- The three High Performance Centers owned by the Higher Council of Sports (CSD), located in Madrid, León and Sierra Nevada, are immersed in the largest process of modernization in their history, with an investment of 27.7 million euros, aimed at improving their sustainability, digitization and accessibility.

Actions, funded from NextBurnEU funds, are geared towards optimising energy efficiency, enabling at least 30% reduction in the demand for non-renewable primary energy associated with the lighting, heating, air conditioning and ventilation of the facilities.

In addition, digitisation and accessibility will be promoted to enrich the experience of athletes training in the High Performance Centres. And that is that a comfortable environment, with adequate lighting and controlled temperatures, favors its performance.

The CAR in Madrid is currently developing the energy rehabilitation works of the Sports Medicine Center, where the CSD offers medical care to high-level athletes, as well as the Exterior Pavilion, a multipurpose building that will be renovated to become a Center of Excellence in Sports Innovation.

Linked to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan are also the energy rehabilitation works of the athletics module and the Blume Residence, where 300 athletes trained by the CSD reside. In the CAR of Madrid there is also the change of lighting of various spaces in the Multiple I and Multiple II buildings and in the Polideportivo Central. Previously, the lighting system of the rhythmic gymnastics room of the Multiple I building and the exterior sports lighting of the athletics track, hockey field and launches were replaced.

On the other hand, in the CAR of Sierra Nevada, the installation of geothermia and the replacement of thermal installations and the thermal envelope of the residence of athletes is proceeding, while in the CAR of León the work of energy rehabilitation of its facilities is underway.

In line with the objectives of the European Union

These improvements are in line with the actions foreseen in Component 26 of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, which is enabling the promotion of the sports sector.

Spain has been the only country in the European Union that has included sport as a driving policy, making EUR 300 million available to this important economic sector.

All the works of the High Performance Centres in Madrid, León and Sierra Nevada will end in 2025, when the CSD will complete the implementation of the “Ecological Transition Plan for Sports Facilities” aimed at the modernization of spaces through actions on energy efficiency, sustainability, digitisation and accessibility.