Attendance to Madrid’s Civil Engineering Week breaks forecasts
The large influx of public to the Innovation Tunnel installed in Plaza Callao has exceeded the forecasts of the organizers. Over 30.000 people have visited this free exhibition that has shown pieces that represent the innovative capacity of Spanish civil engineering. To this data we must add the participation of citizens in other activities such as visits to Madrid infrastructure, workshops and educational and recreational activities for young people, as well as those attending the inauguration, which in total involve 33,100 people who have actively participated in this edition of Madrid’s Civil Engineering Week.
The dean of the College of Civil Engineers of Madrid, Lola Ortiz, has assured that “we celebrate the great interest that this sample of the innovative leadership of Spanish engineering in the world has generated and have brought to society a profession that improves the quality of our daily lives".
UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are ambitious, and its accomplishment relies deeply on engineering, especially on civil engineering. On other hand, it is clear that global action to accomplish such goals can only be enhanced by coordinated bottom-up contributions from the project level to local, national and regional action.
Summer is coming and the time for WCCE's General Assembly comes nearer. This time WCCE is travelling to Europe as WCCE's 14th General Assembly will be hosted by Portuguese ORDEM DOS ENGENHEIROS. The activities regarding 14th WCCE General Assembly will be held from 23rd to 26th September 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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