Works Control Center
Introduction
The Center for Studies and Experimentation of Public Works, better known by its acronym CEDEX, is a Spanish public body "Public Body (Spain)") applied to civil engineering, building and the environment.[3].
CEDEX was created as an autonomous body by Decree of August 23, 1957. It is organically attached to the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility "Ministry of Transport (Spain)") and functionally to the ministries of Transport and for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
Features
The Agency provides multidisciplinary support in civil engineering, building and environmental technologies, and assists both public administrations and institutions as well as private companies.
It is made up of a series of specialized technical units called Centers and Laboratories, which provide high-level technical assistance, applied research and technological development within the framework of civil engineering: ports and coasts, inland water hydraulics, roads, structures and materials, geotechnics, techniques applied to civil engineering and the environment, and historical studies of public works. The Centers and Laboratories dedicate approximately 70% of their resources to high-level technical assistance and the remaining 30% to applied research and development, technology transfer activities and other technical and scientific information actions.
The activities they carry out are, among others:.
• - Collection, analysis, processing and exploitation of basic data.
• - Reduced physical models and numerical simulation.
• - Study and research in its own facilities and with prototypes.
• - Quality control in public works.
• - Support for the planning and implementation of the basic regulations of the Departments.
• - Environmental studies.
• - Monitoring of works, elements and systems.
• - Scientific and technological information and documentation.
• - Organization of postgraduate courses, seminars and other teaching activities.
The specialization of its professionals, the facilities, the variety of civil engineering and environmental topics it addresses and the growing cooperation with similar foreign institutions, make CEDEX a cutting-edge international organization for the solution of the numerous problems that arise in the areas of its specialization, especially in cases in which it is necessary to combine engineering with environmental aspects, for the benefit of sustainable development.