INNOVATION AND QUALITY AT THE USER’S SERVICE
			
			  
					Area: Road surfacing
					Description: New road surfacing refurbishment techniques and criteria through cold and hot recycling of existing asphalt mixes. 
					Category: Research and Development (R&D)
				  
			
				Area: Ports
				Description: Design of a new system for joining caissons to provide 3D behavior to a vertical dike in maritime works. 
				Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
			  
			
				Area: Concrete bridges
				Description: In-situ construction of semi-prefabricated u-beam viaducts with maximum materials efficiency and minimization of construction risks.  
				Category: Research and Development (R&D) 
			  
			
					Area: Concrete bridges
					Description:  Development of a new methodology for dismantling structurally-complex viaducts.
					Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
				
			
					Area: Precast concrete bridges 
					Description: Construction of a prefabricated statically indeterminate pergola structure.
					Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
				
			
					Area: Earthworks
					Description: Development of a support procedure to avoid embankment failures.
					Category: Research and Development (R&D)
				
			
					Area: Composite structure bridges
					Description: Design and construction of a steel bridge launcher structure using large-dimension tubular lattice girders.  
					Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
				
			
					Area: Asphalt road surfacing
					Description:Research into the parameters that affect the sideways force coefficient of road surfacing. 
					Category: Research and Development (R&D)
				
			
					Area: Asphalt road surfacing
					Description: Sideways force coefficient improvement system through the formulation, manufacture and installation of ultra-thin layer hot-mix asphalt (AUTL, “Asphalt for Ultra-Thin Layers”) resulting in improvements to safety and comfort for road users.
					Category: Research and Development (R&D)
				
			
					Area: Ports
					Description: Design and development of a new sealed system that allows welding on the open sea without the need for divers.  
					Category: Research and Development (R&D)
				
			
					Area: Railway infrastructure
					Description: Design and development of a new system for building railway underpasses. 
					Category:  Research and Development (R&D)
				
			
					Area: Tunnels
					Description: Accelerated tunnel lining technique using long formwork trolleys. 
					Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
				
			
					Area: River channels
					Description: New constructive procedure for viaducts in flood risk locations.  
					Category: Research and Development (R&D)
				
			
					Area: Concrete structures 
					Description: Design and development of new support technologies for the execution of underpasses, using jacked steel tubes. 
					Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
				
			
					Area: Software
					Description: Dynamic system for generation of BIM model data, adapted to tunnel construction.
					Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
				
				
						Area: Concrete
						Description: Design and manufacture of steel fiber reinforced lightweight self-compacting concrete for renovation of building floor slabs.
						Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
					
				
						Area: Roofs
						Description: Study and discretization of winds for the development of a new roof solution in industrial and large-area buildings.
						Category: Research and Development (R&D)
					
				
						Area: Special foundations
						Description: Research and development of a methodology for the execution of complex special foundations in historical buildings.
						Category: Research and Development (R&D)
					
				
						Area: Building restoration
						Description: Design and development of new methodologies to support structural and architectural elements to be conserved and structural system modifications during the rehabilitation of listed buildings.
						Category: Research and Development (R&D)
					
				
						Area: Building restoration
						Description: Design and development of a new structural consolidation system for the rehabilitation of pillars in historic buildings. 
						Category: Research and Development (R&D)
					
				
						Area: Formwork
						Description: Design of a new solution for the construction of reinforced concrete walls for complex geometries.
						Category: Research and Development (R&D)
					
				
						Area: Foundations
						Description: New solutions for special foundations in anthropogenic soils. 
						Category: Research and Development (R&D)
					
				
						Area: Building structures
						Description: Design and development of new structural systems in unique buildings.
						Category: Research and Development (R&D) 
					
				
						Area: Steel structures
						Description: Development of a new support and control system for large structural overhangs in steel structures.
						Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
					
				
						Area: Building restoration
						Description: Design and development of new construction solutions for the structural rehabilitation of unique buildings.
						Category: Research and Development (R&D)
					
				
						Area: Slip forming
						Description: System for construction of large cylindrical concrete silos using slip forming with the roof pre-constructed at ground level.  
						Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
					
			
					Area: Road safety
					Description: Modified vehicle for installing lane closure signage in highway maintenance operations.
					Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
				
			
					Area: Road safety
					Description: Design and development of a new system for detecting the encroachment of vehicles into lanes closed to traffic.
					Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
				
			
					Area: Road safety
					Description: Design and development of a new system for lifting highway crash barriers.
					Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
				
			
					Area: Asphalt road surfacing
					Description: Research and Development for the transformation of steel slag into aggregates for construction use.
					Category: Research and Development (R&D)
				
			
					Area: Asphalt road surfacing
					Description: New formulation of road surfacing with ultra-thin mixes using steel slag as the coarse aggregate. 
					Category: Research and Development (R&D)
				
			
					Area: Soil conservation 
					Description: Development of a technique for the restoration and treatment of topsoil in civil engineering works.
					Category: Research and Development (R&D)
				
			
					Area: Soundproofing technologies
					Description: New acoustic developments and solutions for reducing noise levels generated by outdoor building services equipment.
					Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
				
			
					Area: Asphalt road surfacing
					Description: Formulation of gap-graded asphalt mix surfacing with steel-slag aggregates.
					Category: Research and Development (R&D)
				
			
					Area: Contaminated land 
					Description: Design and development of a new treatment system for sludge contaminated with asbestos.
					Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
				
        
				Area: Construction technology - Collective protective measures
				Description: Double loading platform for building construction that increases safety in tower crane loading-unloading operations.
				Category: Technological Innovation (TI) with model use license
			
        
				Area: Road safety - Traffic management
				Description: Road safety improvements through the development of works traffic control using automatic control traffic lights. 
				Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
			
        
				Area: Construction technology - Collective protective measures
				Description: Development of collective protections in the construction of reinforced earth walls.
				Category: Technological Innovation (TI)
			
        
				Area: Construction technology - Collective protective measures
				Description: Design and development of a test instrument and method for carrying out strength tests for protective equipment (Safety nets and edge protections). 
				Category: Technological Innovation (TI)