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Ferrovial and MIT cooperate to design sustainable, safe and inclusive new forms of mobility

Partners include industry leaders such as Hyundai, Intel, Liberty Mutual and Toyota  Ferrovial began collaborating with Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 through the MIT Industrial Liaison Project (ILP).  Ferrovial has joined the MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI), a project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that seeks to respond to the challenges of mobility by […]

Ferrovial renews its collaboration with the MIT for a further five years, reinforcing its commitment to innovation

Ferrovial is committing $5 million to support low-carbon energy and sustainable infrastructure research at MIT Ferrovial began collaborating with MIT in 2007 25 research projects have been developed in recent years Ferrovial has renewed its collaboration with the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) for a further five years. The collaboration with the prestigious academic institution […]

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MIT collaborates with Cadagua for sludge recovery through hydrothermal carbonization

Last November, a new research project entitled, “Utilization of sewage sludge to design, produce and characterize carbon-based materials through hydrothermal processing and computational modeling” was signed between MIT and Ferrovial. Over the next 18 months, both organizations will study the possibility of applying the Hydrothermal Carbonization (HTC) process to sewage sludge in order to evaluate […]

R&D & Innovation in H2O

There is no better way of dealing with challenges than to prepare for them. Cadagua is carrying out several innovationprojects, some of them with MIT, to anticipate  the challenges set by water management. WASTEWATER TREATMENT The projects being carried out by Cadagua in this field are aimed at reducing the carbon footprint and the amount […]

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MIT and Cadagua collaborate on brine recovery project in water treatment plants

The R & D Department of Cadagua, together with the Innovation Department of Ferrovial, has once again collaborated with the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a Brine Recovery project, which deals with the recovery and valuation of products from the desalination of seawater. The team of researchers that included Professor John H. Lienhard […]

Creation of the MIDE collaborative platform to promote entrepreneurship and innovation within the Madrid Community

Ferrovial, Pascual and IBM, amongst other companies, have joined Madrid’s Technical University (UPM) to launch the Madrid Innovation Driven Ecosystem (MIDE), as the first not-for-profit collaborative platform. With the support of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the aim of the platform is to promote entrepreneurship and innovation within the region. According to the REAP (Regional […]

Rail to the future

1957 saw the opening of the Padornelo Tunnel, which provided a rail connection between Galicia and the Castilian plateau. With a length of almost six kilometres, it is still the longest tunnel in the Spanish conventional network. The execution of this infrastructure was slow and tragic. The project was devised in the late 19th century […]

Ferrovial collaborates in a book published by MIT on strategic alliances between universities and large companies

The Innovation Directorate of Ferrovial, through Alberto López-Oleaga, Manuel Martínez and Ciro Acedo Boria, has participated in the elaboration of a book sponsored by MIT on collaboration between universities and large companies. The book tries to explain, through real examples, how to develop successful strategic alliances between universities and corporations, showing the good practices of […]