On Wednesday, 8 November, a meeting was held in Madrid to launch CETIEB, "Cost-Effective Tools for Better Indoor Environment in Retrofitted Energy Efficient Buildings". The manager of Innovation and Technology at FCC CONSTRUCCIÓN, Francisco Esteban Lefler, was in charge of welcoming the project participants on behalf of the entire FCC Group.

CETIEB is an R&D project funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme, and it is coordinated by the University of Stuttgart. Along with FCC, the participants include undertakings and research centres such as Schwenk Putztechnik GmbH and the Fraunhofer Institute from Germany; RED, Università Politecnica delle Marche and STAM from Italy; the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives from France and Delap & Waller Ecoco Limited from Ireland.

The project has a total budget of 3.5 million euro, of which 2.5 million will be funded by the EU, and it has a 36-month completion period. The project's main objective is to develop innovative solutions for better environmental quality monitoring indoors and to conduct research into active and passive systems for environmental quality control.

FCC is participating in four of the eight work packages, and it is leading package 7, "Demonstration", in which the efficiency of the technologies developed under the project will be demonstrated in a real building. For this endeavour it will have the decisive cooperation of Zone II of FCC CONSTRUCCIÓN.

Lastly, the findings are going to be disseminated and recommendations are going to be made for future EU legislation and recommendations.