075 February 2015

The exhibition entitled Lucio del Valle (1815-1874). Ingeniería y fotografía [Lucio del Valle (1815-1874). Engineering and photography], organised with the participation of Fundación Juanelo Turriano, will open on 3 March at the Ministry of Internal Development’s Arquerías Hall.
This showing forms part of Madrid’s Civil Engineering Week, 2015. 

Foundation trustee and civil engineer Fernando Sáenz Ridruejo will deliver a lecture on the life and work of Lucio del Valle at Arquerías Hall at 6:30 PM on Wednesday 4 March. 

The travelling exhibition Ars Mechanicae. Ingeniería Medieval en España [Ars Mechanicae. Medieval engineering in Spain] will open at the Royal Mint Museum at Segovia on  6 March. Organised by Centre for Historic Studies on Public Works and Urban Planning (CEHOPU) in conjunction with Fundación Juanelo Turriano, the exhibition will be on display through 7 June. 

A ceremony organised by Madrid Chapter of the Chartered Association of Civil Engineers to commemorate the second centennial of the birth of engineer Lucio del Valle was held at 11:30 AM on 2 March, with the unveiling of a plaque on the building where he lived at 3 Valverde Street, Madrid. 

Fundación Aena announces the twentieth (2015) edition of the Fundación Aena Awards. Distinctions will be awarded in the following categories:
Luis Azcárraga Prize: singular studies on air carriage.
José Ramón López Villares Prize: senior or master’s dissertation on aeronautical and aerospace engineering.
Journalism Prize: press articles on airports and air carriage.
Photography Prize: artistic photography.
The deadline for submitting works is 31 March.