The FCC Group held the third innovation day promoted by its Digital Innovation Lab (DI_Lab), as part of its commitment to innovation as a strength and as one of the company's levers for creating value. The Innovation and R&D departments participated in the event with the latest initiatives they have been developing. 

The event was opened by Alfredo García, Systems and IT manager of the FCC Group, who said, ‘This year we are once again bringing FCC Group employees a sample of the innovation developed internally and by different external partners. This day has a practical component, in which attendees can experience some of our most relevant innovations, but also informative with different round tables and presentations on the cases developed for our clients and to generate efficiencies in business processes’. 

For his part, Manel Miranda, the FCC Group's IT Director of Innovation and Business Relations, presented the awards for the roota intrapreneurship programme and emphasised that ‘At FCC, innovation is in our DNA, so that we can continue to continuously improve the quality of the service we provide to our clients and the communities where we operate. The roota intra-entrepreneurship programme is a strategic initiative as part of this improvement. We want to boost the talent of our employees even more, in order to drive innovation and generate new business solutions’. Afterwards, both the winning and runner-up teams presented their respective projects. 

Throughout the day, FCC Construcción, Aqualia, FCC Medio Ambiente and Cementos Portland Valderrivas showcased the latest developments in their respective fields. These initiatives, the result of research and development, reflect the company's commitment to staying at the forefront and offering feasible and viable solutions in each of the sectors of construction, integrated water management, environmental services and the production of cement and derivatives. 

In addition, projects from well-known companies such as Microsoft and Citynext, among others, were on display. 

Innovation Day X DI_Lab 

Innovation Day is an ideas laboratory focused on improving the efficiency of the FCC Group's processes through digital transformation, adding value to the business and improving agility in identifying and understanding the current and future challenges of the digital world. 

Continuing with the initial purpose, the main objective of this initiative is to generate knowledge synergies to drive innovation, technology and digitisation and implement solutions that are feasible and viable to facilitate the adoption of innovative digital processes that solve challenges and, consequently, improve the company's products and services; and also to promote an innovation ecosystem open to institutional actors and external collaborators.