The University of Vigo recognised the work of the company by its collaboration in different initiatives of investigation and undergraduate training

Extraco has just overcome successfully the annual audit that allows the company to carry on developing the Project Sitegi, an ambitious project of R&D that will make possible to create and adapt modern technological systems to improve the security in roads and to reduce the costs of maintenance. The company from Ourense, together with other companies and the University of Vigo, are developing and setting up a specific software and technologies for the inspection of infrastructures, in order to collect data of different parameters in the roads, that will help to make decisions about executing rehabilitations in bridges, tunnels, viaducts, road surfaces and slopes.

A technician of the Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (CDTI), (an agency of Ministerio de Economía y Competititividad) which funds the project, visited the central headquarters of Extraco in the beginning of August, to check the advance of Sitegi. In particular, he analysed the mobile unit of inspection developed, where a new tow for GPR antennas, termographic cameras and a laser profiler was put.

During the audit, the technician also visited several test stretches implemented on purpose for the project where works to calibrate all the equipments and action protocols had been made, as the Ourense-Celanova highway, Rairo-Bemposta stretch of the OU-510 road or the asphaltic agglomerate plant that Extraco has in Allariz.

Institutional recognition:

On the other hand, the company has been recently honoured by the University of Vigo to its collaboration with this academic institution in different projects of investigation, such as Sitegi and undergraduate training programs.

The appreciation ceremony was promoted by the Consello Social of the University of Vigo, chaired by Ernesto Pedrosa, in the Facultade de Ciencias Económicas last June.

The aim was to celebrate the implication of business companies which the academic institution because they have more than 2.000 collaboration agreements.