170 October 2019

At 29th October 2019 meeting held at the Fundación Juanelo Turriano headquarters, the judges committee unanimously has announced that the beneficiary of this edition is José Javier Carreño Soler for the theses entitled Estudio arqueo-antropológico de las serrerías marmóreas en el Alto Almanzora (Almería).

Fundación Juanelo Turriano announces the 10th edition of its García-Diego International Prize, worth 12 000 euros, for research in any of the branches of the history of technology. The prize is open to any individual or group submitting an original, unpublished paper in Spanish.

The deadline for submissions is 20 January 2020.

See rules (In Spanish) 

On 18 October Fundación Juanelo Turriano trustees, Advisory Commission members and staff visited the Álvaro de Bazán General Naval Archives housed in Marqueses de Santa Cruz Palace at El Viso del Marqués in the Spanish province of Ciudad Real.

The Foundation wishes to thank the institution and all its members for their courtesies.

The First Forum on Public Works as Cultural Heritage, held at the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineers in collaboration with the Centre for Public Works Studies and Experimentation (CEDEX) and the Association of Civil Engineers, adjourned on 22 October.

Fundación Juanelo Turriano was one of the co-sponsoring institutions.

Forum speakers included Inmaculada Aguilar, Fundación Juanelo Turriano trustee, Javier León and Isabel Bestué, members of its Advisory Commission, and Daniel Crespo Delgado, foundation researcher.

More (first day) (In Spanish)

More (second day) (In Spanish)

Article in ABC (In Spanish)

The ceremony bestowing on Fernando Sáenz Ridruejo and Leonardo Fernández Troyano the status of engineers laureate will be hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering (10 Don Pedro Street, Madrid) on 4 November next at 6:30 PM.

Fernando Sáenz Ridruejo, Fundación Juanelo Turriano trustee, will deliver the keynote address entitled Aportación de los Ingenieros de Caminos a la Difusión del Conocimiento [Civil engineers’ contribution to knowledge transfer].