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

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

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

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

The actions, financed with NextGenerationEU funds, are aimed at optimizing energy efficiency, which will allow to reduce by at least 30% the demand for non-renewable primary energy associated with lighting, heating, air conditioning and ventilation of the facilities.

In addition, digitalization and accessibility will be promoted to enrich the experience of the athletes who train in the High Performance Centers. And it 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 Outdoor Pavilion, a multi-purpose building that will be renovated to become a Center of Sports Excellence and 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 who are awarded CSD scholarships reside. In the CAR of Madrid, the lighting change of various spaces in the Multiple I and Multiple II buildings and in the Central Sports Center is also in progress. 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.

For its part, in the CAR of Sierra Nevada, the geothermal installation and the replacement of the thermal installations and the thermal envelope of the residence of athletes are proceeding, while in the CAR of León the work of energy rehabilitation of its facilities is under way.

In line with the objectives of the European Union

These improvements are part of the actions foreseen in component 26 of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, which is allowing the promotion of the sports sector.

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

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