I IBERO-AMERICAN BIENNIAL CIVIL ENGINEERING AWARD
On the 10th October 1998, Juan José Arenas received an Award for the M-40 and A-1 Madrid-Burgos Motorways Junction.
The cited Prize was given during the I Iberoamerican Biennial in Architecture and Civil Engineering. At the Conference, Arenas offered a presentation titled "Civil Engineering and Culture; an unavoidable commitment", where he explained that engineering is the result of necessity and a dream of human being to reach a better and more habitable world.