The seventh edition of the Civil Engineering Week held last March in Madrid  was proof of the significant influence of this profession on people’s lives. With an interesting exhibition full of virtual reality, visits to the most relevant infrastructures of the capital of Spain and many leisure activities,  the Civil Engineering Association of Madrid paid [...]

Nasas Nigrán, the shopping center and entertainment area that opened its doors last December, is fast becoming a key recreational hub in the South of Galicia. The new shopping center, located in Porto do Molle’s business park, in Nigrán (Pontevedra), has been developed by real estate group Grupo Inmobiliario López Real Inversiones 21 (LR21) and [...]

On the 6th of December, the Municipal Auditorium hosted the 38th edition of the “Spanish Constitution School Contest”, organized by the Government Sub-delegation in Ourense. This contest is held annually, and its goal is to promote the democratic principles set forth in the Spanish Constitution of 1978 among the schools in the area.  The Constitution [...]

The preliminary results of the R&D&I project known as “KEOPS: Geopolymer cementitious solutions with integral sustainability and high added value based on construction wastes” were successfully showcased in different technical and business forums during the last quarter of 2022. The project, launched by EXTRACO in 2021, aims at developing new concrete-based formulas with no Portland [...]

EXTRACO has recently implemented carbon footprint verification for its operating activity in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG). This is the most widely used corporate standard to measure and monitor greenhouse gas emissions. By adding this protocol to its operating process, EXTRACO wishes to highlight its social and environmental commitment (given it is a [...]

The start of the 2022/2023 academic year has coincided with the opening of the new College of Arts and Cultural Preservation in Valladolid.  These premises can be found at the La Rondilla neighborhood, next to the “Santa Teresa” secondary school (in a space previously occupied by old classrooms and the gym). In addition to completely [...]

Last June, students from the Civil Engineering program at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) paid a technical visit to the Ourense-Celanova motorway (AG-31). They visited the traffic control center set up at the Operation and Monitoring Site in A Manchica (A Merca, Ourense), located close to the motorway’s central link. Not only did [...]

At the end of last May, and as part of the collaboration agreement between the Spanish Government and the UN, the Ministry of Defense formally transferred a new office space (located in the Quart de Poblet technology center, in Valencia) to the Department of Operational Support of the United Nations Secretariat. This unique, newly constructed, [...]

The Spanish Confederation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (CEPYME) has included EXTRACO among the 500 companies that grew the most during the 2021 financial year. By means of this distinction, CEPYME identifies, selects, and promotes companies that spearheaded growth (both in terms of business results and capacity to generate added value, employment, innovation, and international [...]

Under the umbrella of the cycle “Sustainability and circularity of materials”, last April 28, the Axencia Galega de Innovación (GAIN) organized the workshop “Materials based on secondary raw materials” through the Materioteca de Galicia. EXTRACO was one of the speakers invited to the technical conference, held at CIS Tecnoloxía e Deseño in Ferrol (A Coruña), [...]