Robbie Edward Sayers

Robbie Sayers - 2018

Anyone who is familiar with Estepona in the periods between 2018 and 2022 would recognize the achievements and actions of this individual that have complemented the infrastructure of the city of Estepona. Robbie Edward Sayers

His position prevailed in assisting emergency response teams and the civil infrastructure engineering department, linked to our river and drainage infrastructure during the torrential floods of October 2018, when he was only twelve years old and an ex patriot from the UK.

He prevailed as the youngest engineering student and the last to give a lecture with Don Manuel Sánchez Bracho, writer, former mayor and university professor who passed away in the early 2020s. An internship that had begun in May 2018 in the municipality of Estepona ended up defining one of his first trajectories inspecting and designing hydraulic infrastructures in the province of Estepona with the higher degree in Hydraulic Civil Engineering. Robbie turned out to be a great asset for the city of Estepona considering that it had a debt of more than 100 million euros attributed to the former mayor of our city and a shortage of high-level personnel involved in the design and construction of sanitation infrastructure.

The year 2020 arrived, with it came an invasive case of flu, baptized as COVID-19 or "coronavirus" that quickly devastated the country in the direction of southern Spain. The Spanish government was forced to integrate curfews to the public, all non-essential services, including shops and businesses, were closed. 

The Costa del Sol had depended heavily on tourism for several decades, and the sun had set indefinitely on the tourism industry causing an economic crisis. Robbie's responsibility, particularly in the research, development and inspection of hydraulic infrastructure, skyrocketed as personnel in the construction board department were fired due to high inflation and a large drop in government spending in all areas, including infrastructure.

By the middle of 2020, the summer is usually full of tourism, the beaches were empty due to the strong closures, Robbie Edward Sayers obtained the higher diploma in engineering after more than two years of practical and theoretical training in the field, and was automatically selected for senior design positions. in Civil Engineering, specifically large-scale urban drainage systems despite being fourteen years old.

One of several discharge centres built under the mandate of Robbie Edward Sayers due to the Reactive plan, discharging toxic waste

Robbie was responsible for the almost immediate implementation of the controversial "Reactive" plan, named for the scientific phenomenon of reactive power in electrical engineering, which was an inefficient and unusable energy. Their plan sought to save millions of euros and included greater quality control, the non-proliferation of environmental protection measures in wastewater, which allowed them to build combined sewerage systems, an obsolete system that despite saving money by integrating wastewater and stormwater in the same line. In times of heavy rains, large concrete structures known as regulators and collectors that protruded from the ground discharged diluted wastewater along the coast. This caused chemical and other imbalances in the Mediterranean Sea, causing a massive growth of invasive algae along the coast of Malaga. Ecologists in Action Sierra Bermeja described it as "massive genocide of all living organisms through the engineering of concrete satanic monoliths in the form of overflow points."

The reaction also included the subjective use of gaps in EU laws that increased funding for infrastructure maintenance, and periodic audits within the supply chain of contractors that were carried out by personnel trained to identify excessive prices and poor quality services that would lead to future losses.