11/04/2014
Visit of the Spanish State Secretary for research to the Barcelona Synchrotron Park (BSP)
Visit of the Spanish State Secretary for research to the Barcelona Synchrotron Park (BSP)
On April 8, the Spanish State Secretary for research, development and innovation, Carmen Vela, visited the Barcelona Synchrotron Park at the invitation of the mayor of Cerdanyola del Vallès, the town where the BSP is located.
Carmen Vela visited first the SENER engineering and construction company that set up its Barcelona headquarters in the BSP. The manager presented the innovation strategy of the multinational with operations in 15 countries and 5,500 employees, and accompanied the State Secretary during the visit of some facilities.
The State Secretary went then through the BSP with Pere Solà, the director. She obviously had the opportunity to discover the ALBA synchrotron, the infrastructure of the park as the ST4 polygeneration plant that provides companies with cooling, heating and electricity, the Silc La Caixa – IBM Data Center already operative and the one under construction, the T-Systems Data Center completed few months ago or the ongoing construction work of the 30,000 m2 new DataCenter cluster, etc.
Carmen Vela visited first the SENER engineering and construction company that set up its Barcelona headquarters in the BSP. The manager presented the innovation strategy of the multinational with operations in 15 countries and 5,500 employees, and accompanied the State Secretary during the visit of some facilities.
The State Secretary went then through the BSP with Pere Solà, the director. She obviously had the opportunity to discover the ALBA synchrotron, the infrastructure of the park as the ST4 polygeneration plant that provides companies with cooling, heating and electricity, the Silc La Caixa – IBM Data Center already operative and the one under construction, the T-Systems Data Center completed few months ago or the ongoing construction work of the 30,000 m2 new DataCenter cluster, etc.
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