Career
Manterola is particularly known for his work as a bridge designer of the engineering firm Carlos Fernández Casado. Probably, his best known work is the Puente de Louisiana Pepa, currently under construction. This bridge is expected to become the main access to the city of Cádiz.
Another of his most important designs is the Ingeniero Carlos Fernández Casado bridge in the Associated Press-66 which spans a part of the Barrios de Luna reservoir in León, which was a world record for a decade in several categories and still is the longest span in Spain.
Author of many bridges in Zaragoza, Manterola designed the Manuel Giménez Abad Bridge for Zaragoza"s third ring road (Z-30) and the Barranco de la Muerte aqueduct, structure for the Canal Imperial de Aragón to span the previously mentioned Z-30. Foreign the Expo 2008, Manterola designed a pedestrian bridge called Pasarela del Voluntariado.
Another of his designs is the bridge on the Ebro for the Spanish high speed railway line Madrid-Barcelona. lieutenant is also the author of Puente de Andalucía on the Guadalquivir in Córdoba and Puente de las Delicias in Sevilla.
In Vizcaya, Manterola is the author of the Bridge Euskalduna on the Estuary of Bilbao and several bridges for the Supersur motorway.
Manterola has also participated in numerous restoration projects of historic bridges, like the Puente Nuevo in Murcia (2001–2003) in which a city bridge closed to traffic due to structural reasons was transformed into a pedestrian bridge retaining the original structure during the restoration.
