[10] During 1974, the company obtained its second concession in Spain, the Burgos-Armiñón highway, which linked Burgos with Bilbao and the French border of Behobia.

[11] In 1985, Ferrovial acquired Cadagua, an engineering and construction company for water treatment plants established in 1971.

[20] That same year, Ferrovial took over Budimex, then the leading Polish construction company in terms of turnover and market capitalization.

That year, Cintra signed a contract for the construction and operation of the Central Greece Toll Highway (E65),[35] and Amey was chosen by Network Rail (the UK's railway infrastructure manager) as one of three providers for Britain's National Rail track renovation services.

[37] A year later, Cintra was awarded the construction, maintenance, and operation of the North Tarrant Express Highway in Texas in the US.

[38] At the end of 2009, the company absorbed the highway management company Cintra;[39] it was awarded maintenance and management of the LBJ Express Texan highway;[40] it changed its corporate name to Ferrovial S.A.; and it sold the Gatwick airport for €1.659 billion, according to the British Competition Commission's indications, which opened a file at the end of 2008 for alleged monopoly.

[51] In that same year, the company was also awarded a new construction section of the Crossrail including Farringdon Station,[52] as part of the project to build a fast railway connection passing through the city of London's underground.

It had previously been awarded the construction of two tunnels between Royal Oak and Farringdon and the accesses and bays at the Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road stations.

[53][54][55][56] In August 2012, Ferrovial announced the sale of 10.6% of BAA to Qatar Holding for €607 million, retaining a 39.37% stake in the UK airports manager following the deal.

[59] With a contract to build an urban road in Saudi Arabia for €145 million, Ferrovial strengthened its presence in the Middle East.

[68] At the end of the decade, in 2017, Ferrovial entered the urban mobility business by working with Renault to launch the carsharing operator Zity in Madrid.

[70][71] In the town of El Salado, Colombia, the company built a water system[72] as part of the Social Infrastructures program: a solar-powered aqueduct.

[75][76] In July 2022, the company was fined €38.5 million, along with five other contractors, by the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) for bidding collusion in public tenders for building and civil infrastructure works.

[80] On 15 December 2024, it was reported that Ardian and PIF have successfully acquired 22.6% and 15% respectively of stakes in Heathrow Airport for a combined US$4.12 billion from Ferrovial and some shareholders in FGP TopCo.

[82] In Spain, it operates the Autema highway concession, A66, and the Autopista del Sol (E15), as well as the SerranoPark car park in Madrid.

In Canada and the United States, it operates highways under a barrier-free toll system, including the 407 ETR, the 407 East Phase 2, and the 407 EDG highways (Toronto), the LBJ Expressway, the North Tarrant Express and NTE Extension (Dallas), and I-77 (North Carolina).

[87][88][89] In European countries, Ferrovial has a share in the M3 and M4 highways in Ireland, and it is overseeing the M8 improvement project in Scotland.

[94] Ferrovial's first foray into private airport management was with the purchase of a share in the Mexican company Aeropuertos del Sureste in 1998.

As part of the Palau Case investigation, Anti-Corruption discovered "sufficient evidence" of Ferrovial Agroman paying illicit commissions to the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) party through the Palau de la Música Catalana to ensure that public works such as the City of Justice and the unfinished line 9 of the Barcelona Metro station would be awarded to them.

[125] On 15 January 2018, the Provincial Court of Barcelona issued a judgment in the Palau Case, acquitting the two executives related to Ferrovial Agroman.