ACS
Actividades de Construcción y Servicios

Research and development

37 projects relating to the development of new construction techniques and work methodologies directly applicable to the improvement of efficiency and quality were developed.

Some of these were backed by the European Union as part of its 6th Research Framework Program or by the Central or regional governments, as part of either the National Research Plan or the Autonomous regions programs for R&D&I.

Main R&D projects undertaken in 2005:

• Futerespacio: intelligent management of construction processes.
  


• Habitat 2030: Building materials and parts.
  


• Dynamic three-dimensional measurement techniques applied to infrastructures.
  


• ENABLE: For awareness in Europe working towards innovation and sustainable development.
  


• Manubuild: Development of open industrialised construction of building systems.
  


• REPCOR: strategies for the repair of concrete structures affected by the corrosion of their frames.
  


• Desorción: research on highly efficient techniques for the decontamination of land.
  


• ARFRISOL: Bioclimatic architecture and solar cooling for building.
  


• Valle 01: Project for the research of road design by means of interactive virtual reality technologies.
  

Noteworthy was the award at the end of 2005 of the integrated European I3CON project for the Intelligent Integration of Information in Construction. This is a project led by Dragados, together with 27 other European organizations from 13 countries, which is to last four years. Also notable is the ROBOT@CWE project being developed in collaboration with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Robotic Laboratory of Japan, whose objective is the application of robots which perform special high technology work in construction.