ACS
Actividades de Construcción y Servicios

Research and development

In general, in the ACS Group Construction R+D+i area, the main projects by line of action worked on in 2010 were:

Transport Infrastructure
EXPLOTUN (CDTI): Geotechnical exploration and improvement of the terrain in front of the tunnel boring machine.
CLEAM (Cenit): Sustainable infrastructures for transport.
OASIS (Cenit): Optimisation of motorway use. Joint elimination (MF): Elimination of expansion joints in existing bridges (MF).
REHABCAR (Innpacto): Restoration of roads and motorways (layout, road surfaces and bridges). Machine for positioning and squaring of railway sleepers.
HYPODE: Sustainable infrastructures for transport

Building
I3CON (EU): Industrialised, Integrated and Intelligent construction.
ARFRISOL (Exceptional & Strategic Project): Bioclimatic architecture.
INVISO (Exceptional & Strategic Project): Industrialisation of sustainable buildings.
CICLOPE (Exceptional & Strategic Project): Analysis of the environmental impact of buildings throughout their life cycle.
FAMAX: New photocatalytic, self-cleaning materials for the construction of GRC façades with maximum environmental sustainability.
RIMAC: Application of High Production Industrial Wastes for the development of new materials for civil works and building. 
SHERIFF :Hybrid and economic system of flexible façade rehabilitation.

Marine Works
DYNAPORT (MF): Durability of concrete in maritime works.
DILAPE (MF): Pendulum caisson for dissipation of energy and exploitation of wave power.
CLIOMAR (CDTI): Influence of meteo-oceanographic climate on the life cycle of maritime works.

Hydraulic Works
ALIVESCA: Hydraulic design of stepped spillways without side walls in roll compacted concrete dams.

Materials and Processes
ALOE (Avanza): Monitoring with 3D laser: Building and civil works.
SICURA: Augmented reality applied to building and the maintenance of tunnel boring machines.
MAPLA (Avanza): Interactive platform for management of heavy machinery maintenance.
HORMIFORMA (Innpacto): Optimisation of planning and construction of visible concrete structures with complex shapes.
TAILORCRETE (EU): New industrial technologies for developing custom structures in cement and concrete.

Environment
UPSOIL: Technologies for decontamination by chemical oxidation and reduction.
PROMARES: Environmental protection of the coast and marine habitat.
CLAY DIFFUSION: Diffusion of pollutants in urban waste dump barriers and their evolution with time.
Establishment of selection criteria for plant species for stabilisation of slopes and the development of new nursery and planting techniques.

Other
PATRAC: Accessible heritage. A no-barriers culture.
GIBICMED: Integral management of real property of cultural interest by means of digital structural monitoring.
CIBIC: Conservation of infrastructures based on computational intelligence.
LINEO: Real-time locating system based on interactive technologies for its application in construction environments.