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The awards ceremony for the García-Diego International Prize, tenth and eleventh editions, was held at Madrid’s Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers on Wednesday, 27 April.

The tenth edition prize was awarded, ex aequo, to the following authors:

 

Juan José Nieto Callén for: La fabricación de pólvora negra en el Imperio español [Black powder manufacture in the Spanish Empire]

Vicente Ruiz García for: Españoles contra el escorbuto. Empirismo, Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos al servicio de las grandes travesías oceánicas de la Edad Moderna [Spaniards vs scurvy: food empiricism, science and technology at the service of long oceanic voyages in the Modern Age]

The three second prizes awarded in the eleventh edition went to:

Vicente Garcia Ruiz for Desafío contra la fiebre amarilla. Medicina, tecnología química y biotecnología contra la pandemia que vino del mar (ss.XVII-XX) [Yellow fever and its challenges: medicine, chemical engineering and biotechnology to combat a sea-borne pandemic (seventeenth to twentieth centuries]

Salvador Gómez Arellano for El Imperio español azucarero en la Nueva España. Tecnología en Morelos, la azucarera de México [The Spanish sugar empire in New Spain: technology at Morelos, leading sugar producer in Mexicol]

Enrique Ramírez Sánchez for Sistemas antisísmicos en la arquitectura histórica de fábrica (S. XII-XVII) [Anti-seismic systems in historical masonry architecture (twelfth to seventeenth centuries)].

Speakers at the awards ceremony included Pedro Navascués Palacio and José María Goicolea Ruigómez, Fundación Juanelo Turriano President and Vice-President, respectively. The Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers was represented by Fernando Ruiz Ruiz de Gopegui..

The travelling exhibition entitled Artifex. Ingeniería romana en España (Artifex. Roman engineering in Spain), co-produced by the Centre for Public Works Studies and Experimentation-Centre for Historic Studies on Public Works and Urban Planning (CEDEX-CEHOPU) and Fundación Juanelo Turriano, opened on 21 April at the Convento de San Francisco (Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja).

Santo Domingo de la Calzada Mayor David Mena, CEDEX Director Aurea Perucho, Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño Bishop Santos Montoya and Fundación Juanelo Turriano Director Bernardo Revuelta Pol were present during the opening ceremony.

The exhibition will be on display through October 2022.

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The deadline for early bird registration to attend the Twelfth National and Fourth International Spanish-American Congress on the History of Construction is 15 June next.

Organised by Sociedad Española de Historia de la Construcción and Instituto Juan de Herrera, it will be held at Mieres in the Spanish province of Asturias from 4 to 8 October 2022.

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The deadline for submitting the final versions of conference papers, communications and posters to the TICCH’s Eighth Congress on industrial heritage has been extended to 15 May.

The congress, to be held at Balmaseda in the Spanish province of Bizcaia from 2 to 4 June next, will revolve around the slogan Gender perspectives for the industrial heritage: work for (not) around the house.

A seminar entitled Diálogos de la Revista de Obras Públicas 3633. El patrimonio cultural de la obra pública [Revista de Obras Públicas 3633: Discussion of public works as cultural heritage] will be held at Madrid’s Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers at 6:00 PM on 5 May next.

Daniel Crespo Delgado, professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and Fundación Juanelo Turriano researcher, will participate in this in-person and online session.

 

The lectures delivered at the Ninth Alcántara Roman Bridge Seminar, held on 18 and 19 March last, were enlivened with a series of musical performances. In keeping with the programme entitled The Three Centenary Year,

Daniel Crespo, Complutense University of Madrid professor and Fundación Juanelo Turriano researcher, delivered a lecture on Conservation of Alcántara de Nebrija Bridge up to the twenty-first century.