Construmat closes its most international Edition and an agreement to take place in China
on June 3, 2011
Fira de Barcelona has signed an agreement with the Division of materials of the building Chinese Council for the promotion of international trade (CCPIT BM). The objective is to organize a Construmat China in the capital, Beijing/Beijing from 11 to 13 July 2012. This initiative wants to help the Catalan and Spanish companies, especially SMEs, to enter the Chinese market, one of the most dynamic economies in the world.
The President of Construmat, Josep Miarnau, said it before and had been reaffirmed in this later. The foreign market is one of the solutions to boost the sector, to open to small and medium-sized new companies possibilities and "deal with the weakness of the Spanish market". In this sense, he said Miarnau, "the large number of international contacts made during the fair shows that our commitment to foreign markets is successful."
The Catalan President bet to give a push to a "very local" sector
Artur Mas, President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, held during his visit to Construmat the bet of the Hall for leaving abroad, to countries such as China or Brazil, among other. Something to which the branch, he said, has been little used: "To the construction sector has cost him go outside, because it is a very local area". But he urged that this step not so den only large companies but also small and medium-sized enterprises of the construction, which claimed the support of the Government, Fira de Barcelona and business platforms.
Autonomic President did not lose the opportunity that gave him the visit of the Secretary of State for housing, Beatriz Corredor, which asked "alleviated the criteria to help rehabilitation".
Hope, also in Brazil
Brazil has been the country visiting Construmat 2011. Representatives of their construction associations have encrypted over 43,000 million euros investments which will be necessary to respond to the socio-economic growth expected with the 2014 world and Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics. The Chairman of the management of the construction of the State of Sao Paulo (Sinduscon-SP), Sergio Tiaki Watanabe, has ensured that, with annual growth of 4%, "Brazil offers great opportunities for the industry of materials and equipment". "In Construmat, we found that the Spanish construction we can be very useful, and for this reason, we will satisfied by the number of contacts made," he explained.
With internationalisation, innovation, rehabilitation and sustainability have been the three main areas on which it has vertebrate Construmat 2011. Claudine Lauzeral, Director of marketing at the Norwegian firm Technal, has stated that "the living room has capture the visitor's quality with purchasing power, especially in projects related to the rehabilitation".
Industrialized housing Garoza of Ávila and the works of the line east of the bird on the stretch of the embalse de Contreras between Valencia and Cuenca have been awarded the highest distinction of 14th edition of the Construmat awards. These awards have great prestige among the professionals of the sector.
Industrialized housing Garoza 10.1 of Muñogalindo, in Avila, has been promoted by Rafael cell and built by IDM systems modular according the project of architects Juan blacksmiths and Veronica Melendez. The building is a metal House armed dry in a workshop specialized modules of 3 meters in width and transported to its final location to be installed on a single day.
For its part, the stretch of the line of the bird of Levante crosses the embalse de Contreras in the town of Villargordo del Cabriel (Valencia) over 6,523 m and it has resulted in the construction of three tunnels and three viaducts in which have been used different construction techniques, such as land, screens for containment of land works, tunnels in mine and artificial, viaducts of large dimensions, underwater work or demolition of concrete structures.
The viaduct of Contreras is the absolute record of Europe in concrete arch bridge. Promoted by Adif, the work has been executed by the temporary Union of companies (UTE) consisting of Azvi SA, construction San José and Sener-Gestec according the project of Javier Manterola Armisen, engineer of paths, channels and ports.
The figures of the Organization
128,000 visitors, of which about 9,000 from abroad (from 58 countries)20% Of international buyers came from emerging countries, thus making Construmat in its trading platform to access European markets.
