Smart Infrastructure Innovation Centre (CI3) Ferrovial’s Innovation projects Ferrovial’s Innovation Policy Política de Innovación de Ferrovial Ferrovial’s Global Innovation Group, together with Ferrovial University, launched the first Ferrovial Innovation Seminar in March. This seminar forms part of a cycle of seminars that will brin [...]

Innovation and entrepreneurship are important to Ferrovial. Both are central to our history as well as relevant for our future. In the field of innovation, our company develops a strategy of open innovation. Through a partnership ecosystem made of firms, public agencies, universities and startups, our approach enriches the innovation process through the exchange of […]

Innovation has become a necessary requirement for any company that wants to survive. This principle is of even greater importance in an industry as demanding as infrastructures. The impact that they have on the daily life of citizens, on companies’ growth and on the development of regions and countries entails the search for solutions that […]

The rapid and constant technological changes we are seeing today are a source of opportunities and challenges for companies. Innovation plays a crucial role as growth factor, both nationally and internationally, and R&D is the necessary element for improving a company’s ability to generate and use knowledge and so strengthen its competitive advantage. Innovation is […]

When I think about innovation, I don’t only think about the literal definition (“Invention*Commercialization = Innovation” as MIT’s Bill Aulet, Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management would say), I also think about the impact and the effect it can […]

Can a movie serve as a metaphor for reality? Can a historical character embody the characteristics required in today’s leaders? Perhaps because I am so immersed in the world of innovation, I see links with the film Braveheart and its hero, William Wallace, in many of my day to day issues. The struggles in Scotland’s […]

Promoted by Ferrovial, the Castilla-La Mancha Regional Government and the University of Alcalá. The centre has started up the EMMOS (energy efficiency in buildings), TOBOSO (toll road software) and RINTER (smart collection of consumer separated waste) projects. Rafael Fando Mestre, Ferrovial’s Head of Innovation, has been appointed as Direct [...]

The Railway Innovation Hub held its general assembly meeting on January 26 at its headquarters in the Andalusia Technology Park. The highlight of the meeting was members voting on positions for the Board of Directors and the Presidency. These candidacies were all ratified with more than 95% of the votes. Laura Tordera, head of Innovation at Ferrovi [...]

For a while now, we’ve been talking about the circular economy, and it is here to stay. It’s on everyone’s lips: public and private administrations, academic circles, and even the rest of society. From the time when we first took on the need for the economic model to evolve and change, and once the initial […]

Innovation changes materials, operations, and methods, creating new versions that are better than existing ones. Sometimes, what’s developed can be radically different from what we’re familiar with. In some cases, if the change created doesn’t positively impact business, it will hardly be considered an innovation. Innovation as continuous improvement is closely linked to construction. The […]

Energy consumption is a major concern in Europe, not only due to energy dependence on third countries but also because of greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings, where we spend much of our lives, account for 40% of total energy consumption at present. We use a range of buildings, and all of them offer scope to reduce […]

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a lecture at the Victoria and Albert museum given by the author Ken Follet. It started with a very interesting picture from a manuscript from the 15th century, The Bedford Hours, one of the finest treasures of the British Library. The manuscript contains the depiction of the Tower of […]

Citizens are currently witnessing the rapid development of buildings, services, technologies and environment. This is becoming one of the main sources of innovation for companies like Ferrovial. Internally, programs like Zuritanken collect innovative ideas proposed by our own colleagues, suggesting specific issues and challenges. Externally, we support collaborative initiatives such as the Cities Open Challenge, […]

Ferrovial’s project, Evolving HR with the Power of AI, has won the Forbes Innovation Award in the Talent and Culture category.

Ditecpesa, invited by the Polish subsidiary Budimex, has participated in the Innovation and Asphalt Surfaces conference organised by the General Directorate for National Roads & Motorways of Poland, and the Polish Association of Asphalt surfacing contractors, an event sponsored by Budimex. At the event, Ditecpesa played a prominent role in the [...]

Our division of Ferrovial Servicios, in cooperation with the company’s Innovation area and Citymart.com, the platform for innovation in municipal services, is launching “Cities Open Challenge by Ferrovial”. This new initiative focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation and aims to identify transformative solutions for sma [...]

Perhaps you see only a robot, but the fact is that behind this mobile trolley which is helping street cleaners to be more efficient in their job and improving ergonomics, there is a whole process of innovation which has allowed the project to come to fruition. But first, let’s get the introductions done. Hello world, I […]

In line with its open innovation strategy, Ferrovial has renewed its agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a further five years (until 2020), to support research projects aimed at transforming cities and developing the infrastructures of the future, as a sustaining member of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). “By renewing o [...]

Innovation is, without a doubt, one of the fields which has most evolved in recent years. Like a prediction come true, increased innovation in the ecosystem has triggered a world which moves at lightning speed, where any product, service or business can change drastically from one day to the next, be surpassed or become completely […]

Innovation is a strategic tool to respond to global challenges facing the infrastructure sector: increases in population in cities, problems of congestion and pollution, energy efficiency … That is why we promote innovation constantly and systematically, through more than 100 projects aimed to create wealth in a sustainable way, improving our pro [...]

Tideway Central Are up for: Tunnelling Team of the Year Innovation in Design and Delivery Innovation in Tunnel Shaft Design and Construction (Heathwall) NLE Are shortlisted for 3 innovation awards: Design and Delivery for the Kennington Cross Passages Instrumentation and Monitoring for the environmental monitoring systems Innovati [...]

The organization recognized Ferrovial’s work as the world’s leading operator of infrastructure and sustainable mobility that integrates startups and scaleups that want to reach an international scope into its open innovation strategy. During the ceremony, Federico Flórez said: "Open innovation and a commitment to startups is a central [...]

Madrid, 9 December 2009. Ferrovial, the Castilla-La Mancha Regional Government and the University of Alcalá have signed a Cooperation Agreement to establish a Smart Infrastructure Innovation Centre. The agreement was signed in Guadalajara (Spain) by José María Barreda, President of Castilla-La Mancha, Virgilio Zapatero, Chancellor of the Univers [...]

Ferrovial Services, through Amey and the Centre of Excellence for Cities, has reached an agreement with Sheffield City Council to create Sheffield Smart Lab. This programme—a first not only in Sheffield but also worldwide—seeks innovative solutions to address two major challenges that Sheffield faces: to energise the city centre, and to support [...]