ACS
Actividades de Construcción y Servicios

R&D&I

The ACS Group is an organisation which is continually evolving, adapting to the needs of its clients and the demands from society. The diversification process through which the ACS Group is passing during these years has led it to undertake a wide range of activities which approach innovation and development in a different but determined manner. Through this commitment to innovation, the ACS Group responds to the growing demand for improvements in processes, technological progress and quality of service from its clients and from society.

Its involvement in research, development and innovation are clear in its increased investment and the R+D+i efforts that the ACS Group makes year after year. This effort leads to tangible improvements in productivity, quality, client satisfaction, occupational safety, the obtaining of new and better materials and products and the design of more efficient production processes and systems.

The ACS Group’s largest companies have management of technology, which is usually the Technological Development Committee, which leads the development of research activities in each company.

 In 2010, the ACS Group collaborated in 172 projects with 59 research centres, 96 universities and 42 technological centres. These prestigious research institutions, both domestic and international, complement the ACS Group’s own research capabilities.

The ACS Group invested a total of 46.77 million euros in research, development and innovation in 2010, which represents an increase of around 8% relative to 2009. Its efforts were aimed at various lines of research.

The Group received nearly 9 million euros in subsidies for R+D+i in 2010.

Strategic decisions for the development of R+D prospects look for the maximum positive impact in the technical advance of ACS