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The Spanish works abroad will be able to opt to the Prizes Construmat for the first time

2/21/2013

21 February 2013

The International Living room of the Construction of Fira of Barcelona, Construmat, has launched the bases of announcement of the 15ª edition of the Prizes Construmat of technological innovation and sustainability in the construction in his three categories (Edificación, Civil Engineering and Product). For the first time, the works built, promoted or projected by any Spanish company in the outside will be able to opt to the Prizes Construmat.

To the categories of Edificación and Civil Engineering, can opt all the works of new plant or of intervention in existent works, that have realised in the period comprised between 1 January 2011 and on 31 December 2012.

Any one of the agents that have participated in the work (promoter, facultativo or constructor) can present his candidature to the prizes to través, only and exclusively, of the web www.premiosconstrumat.com. The term of registration finalises to the 17:00 hours of the day 20 March 2013.

In the past edition, the prize in the category Civil Engineering recayó in the works of the line of Raise of the BIRD in the stretch of the reservoir of Contreras between Cuenca and Valencia.

To the category of Product can opt constructive processes, products for structures and enclosures and products for isolations and coatings. All the candidatures have to be presented by an expositor of Construmat 2013 and his registration has to formalise, also, through the web www.premiosconstrumat.com. The term of registration finishes to the 17:00 hours of the day 15 April 2013.

The director of Construmat, Pilar Navarro, has stood out the fact that the Prizes open to the outside. “The internationalisation is the road so that the sector face up to these so complicated moments and want to do a public recognition to which already have launched to cross the border, putting of relief the quality of the companies that conform the Spanish industry of the construction”, has signalled.

The bases of the Prizes Construmat, whose technical office runs to charge of the Institute of Technology of the Construction of Catalonia (ITeC) establish that you award them will not be able to be declared deserts neither conceded ex aequo. The delivery of the Prizes Construmat 2013 will take place the Thursday 23 May in a public act in the frame of celebration of the living room.

In the last edition, the maximum galardón in the category Edificaciones was for the project of house industrialised and modulate House Garoza 2.0, work of the architects Juan Smiths and Verónica Meléndez and of the technical architect Ramón Paradinas, built by IDM Modular Systems and promoted by Rafael Cell.

In the category Civil Engineering the recognition recayó in the works of the line of Raise of the BIRD in the stretch of the reservoir of Contreras between Cuenca and Valencia, of the engineer Javier Manterola, built by the UTE Reservoir Contreras (Azvi SA and Saint Constructor José SA) and the UTE Sener-Gestec and promoted by Adif.

In the category Product, the prize in constructive processes was for the Cimbra AR TG60 of Layher, SA; in structures and enclosures, rewarded the structural system with forged slim floor' without descuelgues Hormipresa Deltamix of Hormipresa and in isolations and coatings and installations the prize received it the membrane impermeabilizante autoprotegida no bituminous for covers Derbipure of Derbigum.