FCC Construcción

Using the most suitable technology for each project provides added value and is a differentiating factor in the current highly competitive market.

FCC Construcción participates heavily in the promotion of a number of European and domestic R&D&i initiatives and in the development of its own projects plus projects in cooperation with other business units of the FCC Group on a domestic and international basis. In addition, it participates in cooperative projects as a member of consortiums, an arrangement that enables the synergies between the different members to be used to increase the flow of knowledge.

The company has designed an R&D&i policy to more easily steer its efforts in the innovation field toward integration with the company's top-priority lines of action as a whole.

The R&D&i activity of FCC Construcción is specifically aimed at spearheading the building sector's most important advances in technological and process innovation as related with the company's main activity. FCC Construcción participates actively in those initiatives that are oriented along its own lines of action, which are:

• Information and communications technologies
• Marine construction
• Knowledge of terrain
• Materials
• Transport systems
• Building
• Underground construction
• Occupational risk prevention
• The environment
• Process management.

In step with the sector's evolution, FCC Construcción has focused its R&D&i activity on the following lines, which it has defined as having top priority:

• Refurbishment and sustainability
• Integration of multiples modes of sustainable transport systems
• Underground construction
• Marine construction
• Environmental optimisation of the useful life cycle.

The company earned R&D&i Management System Certification as meeting R&D&i Management System Requirements from AENOR, the Spanish standardisation and certification association, on 31 August 2007. It secured a three-year renewal of its certification in May 2010.