The Who's Who in Spanish Road Infrastructure Technology

APIA XXI, S.A.
Address
Av. Albert Einstein, 2
39011 Santander, Cantabria
Phone number +34 94 229 02 60
Fax +34 94 227 46 13
Web http://www.apiaxxi.es
Key Information
Contact details
Israel Pinto Grijuela
Head of R&D Department
Phone number +34 94 229 02 60
Fax +34 94 227 46 13
E-mail imasd@apiaxxi.es
ptc
member
• Company founded in 1987.
• Offers comprehensive services ranging from the project pre-planning to the control and execution of works,
including all management processes and strategic consulting.
Member of Associations and Platforms:
• Spain: PTC, TECNIBERIA, ASINCE, ASICA, ASICMA, ASIF, CEPREVEN, CEOE, CEPYME,
PLANETA.
R&D: According to the last audit received for the certification of UNE 166.002:2006, the firm holds innovation
management systems in the following areas: renewable energies’ technology, noise pollution engineering, intelligent
transportation systems, structural engineering and advanced electronic instrumentation.
Resources devoted to R&D: During 2009 more than 50 employees worked in R&D. Their profiles covered the
following education areas: Civil Engineering, Telecommunications, Industrial Sciences, Agricultural Sciences,
Physics, Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, Architecture, Law and Economics.
Areas of activity
• Design and Planning
• Construction
• ITS and Mobility
• Road Safety
• Materials
• Energy and Sustainability
• Environment
R&D: Products and Projects
• Aerodynamic behavior of floating wind turbines.
• Analysis and optimization of support structures for solar trackers.
• CAMVIA: Automated road mobility characterization through video analysis techniques.
• CILECCTA: Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for the construction industry.
• COMBSHORE: Offshore combined plant for wind power generation.
• JATROPHA: Research and industrial development of Jatropha cultivation.
• POM: Development an offshore multi-function floating platform.
• RETCAIT: Development of acoustic barriers with optimized phono-structural properties.
• SACIV: Development of a new road-infrastructure characterization system using magnetic sensors.
• SIATRA: Intelligent system for road traffic analysis.
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