FCC Construcción

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R&D projects

FCC Construcción undertakes R&D projects internally and in collaboration at both national and European levels. FCC Construcción also acts as relevant in general activities to promote R&D in the building sector.

Most important projects

Project name Description Programme
/
organisation
Dates
FCC Construcción
  • InvesResearch and development of innovative solutions in underground construction
  • VI EC Outline Programme

2005-2009

  • Hatcons
  • Research and development of innovative solutions for rings and filling behind tunnel linings
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade and PIIC, CDTI

2005-2008

  • ManuBuild
  • Industrialisation of building to develop concepts and examples of open building.
  • Project in the VI EC Outline Programme

2005-2009

  • Buildnova
  • Analysis of the European construction sector's situation, including the financial dimensions
  • VI FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME on Research, Technological Development and Demonstration FP6 Coordinating Actions under Europe INNOVA INNOVATION-2004-1.2.1.4 Networking innovation actors by sectors
    Coordination action
2005-2008
  • HISPALYT
  • Analysis of problems and the best solutions for building non-bearing brick walls
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade.
2005-2007
  • Bio-climatic architecture and solar cooling. Development and building of government buildings with a minimal use of conventional energy, serving to apply the concepts developed and make the relevant measurements.
  • Project in the Ministry of Education and Science

2005-2009

  • Fibre-bearing road surfaces
  • R&D into multi-functional continuous road surfaces with a metal fibre armature
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade
2006-2007
  • Virtual reality
  • Development of a virtual reality system for projects and linear designs.
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade

2006-2007

  • Intelligent cards
  • Development and use of RFID tags to control factory production and monitoring traceability on sites.
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade

2007-2008

  • Geo 3D
  • System to aid knowledge of terrain in 3D in underground work.
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade

2007-2009

  • Sustainable concretes
  • Development of low responsibility concretes made with materials from mud from tunnelling machines and dredging.
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade

2007-2008

  • Integral bridges
  • Design and building of bridges without joints.
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade

2007-2008

  • Mortars
  • Research to obtain two-phase mortars for filling behind tunnel lining rings.
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade

2007-2008

  • Bridge safety
  • Development of a risks matrix to improve safety in ports and marine projects.
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade

2007-2008

  • Jet Grouting:
  • Obtaining of a quality control system for jet grouting elements.
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade)

2007-2008

  • Cleam
  • Clean and efficient building in linear projects.
  • CENIT project, CDTI

2007-2010

  • Design and building of underwater tunnels in earthquake areas.
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade, and IBEROEKA, CDTI

2007-2009

  • Futurespacio
  • Development of TIC solutions to develop processes of undertaking projects.
  • PROFIT project - TRACTOR, Ministry for Industry, Tourism and Trade

2007-2010

  • Bituminous
  • Experimental development of asphalt mixtures for the formation of the sub-ballast layer used in railway infrastructure
  • Experimental/industrial development sub-programme, Ministry for Science and Innovation
2008-2009
  • Bridge damage
  • Low-cost dynamic testing for maintenance of bridges subjected to uncontrolled environmental loads, using wireless sensors
  • Transport and Infrastructure Sub-programme, Ministry of Development
2008-2011
  • Research into the conditions for designing and building car parks for transport centres at risk
  • Transport and Infrastructure Sub-programme, Ministry of Development
2008-2011
  • Design and development of solutions for recycling paper mill sludge in civil engineering projects: application in linear road infrastructure
  • Experimental/industrial development sub-programme, Ministry for Science and Innovation
2008-2009
  • Continuos Wall
  • R&D into slipformed continuous concrete components reinforced with structural fibres
  • Experimental/industrial development sub-programme, Ministry for Science and Innovation
2008
2008-2011
  • Bridge piles
  • Experimental development of innovative foundations for bridge piles
  • Experimental/industrial development sub-programme, Ministry for Science and Innovation
2008
  • Pontoon
  • Experimental development of concrete pontoons for harbour loading and unloading platforms
  • Experimental/industrial development sub-programme, Ministry for Science and Innovation
2008
  • Serrería or Azud del Oro Bridge
  • Unique bridge without balancing spans, whose pylon is anchored to the ground with stay cables. The shape of the pylon is non-funicular to the loads conveyed to it by the crowns.
2008
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  • Research into new methodologies for the analysis, design and construction of tunnels in urban areas
  • Applied/industrial development sub-programme, Ministry for Science and Innovation
2008-2010
  • Comprehensive design of acoustically efficient systems and buildings in a healthful environment
  • Strategic Special Project, Spanish Centre for Industrial Technological Development
2009-2012

Most important projects begun in 2010

  • Sustainable building refurbishment
  • Integrated project, Spanish Centre for Industrial Technological Development
2010-2014
  • TANKS
  • Design of storage systems for bitumen that has been modified with ground disused tyres, for hot bituminous mixing plants
  • Inter-company Cooperation Project, Spanish Centre for Industrial Technological Development
2010-2012
  • ECORASA
  • Technological R&D project concerning the full use of construction and demolition waste as sewer ditch fill
  • Catalonian Waste Agency
2010
  • Vitraso
  • Diagnosis and prediction of noise transmission routes in building
  • ACC1Ó 2010, Catalonian Government
2010-2011
ALPINE
  • Optimisation of flexible surfaces
  • Behaviour tests have been made on different bitumens and simulation models for various demands.
  • Christian Doppler laboratory, StrassenBau Austria, Sank Pölten area
2007
  • Noise protection for the ÖBB
  • Study of noise protection with acoustic barriers for speeds of over 250 km/h
  • Austrian federal railway system
2007
  • Concrete pressures
  • Analysis of concrete pressures in piles built on site.
  • Austrian Federation of Concrete and Building Technology(ÖVBB)
2007
  • Hochssch-
    neeberg project
  • Technology for building in high mountain areas
2007
Servia-Cantó
  • FENIX project. Strategic research into safer and sustainable roads
  • Aimed at generating the scientific and technical knowledge needed to develop safer roads for users and with minimal and sustainable environmental impact.
  • CENIT programme, within the INGENIO 2010 initiative of the Centre for Technological Industrial Development (CDTI)
2007-2010
  • Development of new treatment to stabilise base layers of road surfaces using building and demolition wastes.
  • PROFIT project, Ministry for Industry and CDTI
2007-2008
  • New process for building compacted concrete road surfaces with spreader.
  • Aimed at obtaining a new sustainable material based on compacted concrete with special emphasis on its composition and pouring on site. Also investigating the possibility of using recycled materials (RCDs) in concrete in proportions greater than 20% of the gravel to reduce the environmental impact.
  • Project in CDTI.
2007-2008
  • Technology development project to incorporate processed granulated material from shredded unused tyres for use in hot bituminous mixes.
  • Project evaluating the use of rubber powder from used tyres (NFUs) in a G-20 discontinuous bituminous mix using the dry procedure. In collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. The project implies a considerable reduction of the environmental impact since a waste with a considerable volume is valued and re-used (some 300,000 tonnes per year in Spain).
  • Catalonian Wastes Agency
2006-2007
MATINSA
  • Optimisation of traffic safety solutions applied in upkeep operations
    • Development of innovations in improving traffic safety in road sections subject to problems and/or glare
    • ACEX (Association of Infrastructure Upkeep and Operation Enterprises)
    2007-2008
    • Optimisation of preventive treatments for winter driving through detailed weather predictions to minimise economic, social and environmental impact
    • Optimisation of preventive treatments for winter driving through detailed weather predictions to minimise economic, social and environmental impact
    • ACEX (Association of Infrastructure Upkeep and Operation Enterprises)
    2007-2008
    • Design of satellite positioning systems for improved management of fleets of snowploughs and auxiliary vehicles, with the GMV Technological Business Group
    • Design of satellite positioning systems for improved management of fleets of snowploughs and auxiliary vehicles, with the GMV Technological Business Group
    • ACEX (Association of Infrastructure Upkeep and Operation Enterprises)
    2007-2008
    • Preventive bridge maintenance by means of dynamic testing under uncontrolled environmental loads
    • Preventive bridge maintenance by means of dynamic testing under uncontrolled environmental loads
    • National Public-Private Cooperation Programme, Transport and Infrastructure Sub-programme
    2008-2011
    IMPULSA
    • Immersed tubes
    • Design of an immersed tube using three-celled prestressed concrete boxes, plus the development of a construction process, with the special constraints that the project must resist possible earthquakes, since it will take place in a seismic area
    • CONACYT México- INNOVATEC innovation programme
    2008

     

    Total FCC Construcción investment in R&D

    2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
    Total investment (€) 2.965.500 5.200.000 9.144.634 7.523.212 6.740.797
    Subsidised investment 207.585 466.960 807.471 1.489.712 4.081.931
    Interest-free credits 0 0 3.906.201 4.417.090 1.453.327

    * Information from FCC Construcción, MATINSA, Servià Cantó and IMPULSA. Does not include data from ALPINE.

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