The year that ends was not just another in BITAFAL. A year full of challenges, participation in major road works, innovations and projects for the future. It was also a year of participation in the academic world, action in the community and a strong commitment to sustainability.
For all these reasons, we decided to close the year as we started it: all together, happy for what we experienced and excited about what is to come. To celebrate, we organized a party with our entire team, which we called Your Route is My Route
A party that made us go through all the climates: joy, reflection, gifts and a lot of emotion. And like any gathering of friends, music and fun were present with the band Vi-Em live.
Do you want to experience the party like us? Look!
First International Meeting of the CAS BITAFAL – UM
Since its creation, the BITAFAL – UM Sustainable Asphalt Chair has been developing various activities to disseminate advances in technological innovations and products, pointing towards sustainable road construction.
In this sense, in November we organized the first international meeting of the chair called “Warm mixtures: learning for successful management.” The event was held in the halls of the UM Faculty of Engineering and featured a panel of prominent specialists such as engineer Ángel Sampedro from the Alfonso el Sabio University of Spain (UAX), engineer Juliano Gewehr from Ingevity in Brazil, the Argentine global expert Mario Jair and our directors Santiago and Ignacio Kröger.
Before a large gathering of students, Alumni graduates and representatives from other universities, the experts analyzed the results that have been obtained in the countries that are most advanced in the matter, the advantages they present in terms of durability, reduction of impact and costs, and the opportunities for improvement that arise from their analysis with a view to greater use of them in the future.
The meeting was held in person and via streaming, which generated a large audience and laid the foundations to repeat the experience in the coming months.
In the first days of November, we carried out an important warm mixture application test together with the Municipality of Canelones and the GRINOR company on Aparicio Saravia Street in El Pinar Norte. The test consisted of the application of a mixture with AC30 MAX asphalt, which allowed the mixing, laying and compaction temperature to be reduced by 40°C.
Those responsible for the General Directorate of Works of the Canary Islands were present at the event, who were able to verify the advantages of using this product, which requires less energy for its manufacture, improves the compactability of the mixture and allows rapid release to traffic. and most importantly, it reduces the occupational risks of the team that uses it since there are almost no fumes present and the temperatures are significantly lower.
Our Transformation and Strategy Manager Ignacio Kröger recalled that this application is the first to be carried out at the municipal level throughout the country, pointing out that “we appreciate this Municipality's openness to testing new technologies. We are betting that a standard is generated and that the temperature of all construction sites in Uruguay can be reduced to 40°C, which means reduced emissions, improvements in air quality for workers, etc. “This technology impacts sustainability at all levels.”
Along with the BITAFAL and GRINOR team, students from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Montevideo were present, who, through the BITAFAL – UM Sustainable Asphalt Chair, are carrying out their final degree project, in an area of great impact on the society such as road construction.
This end of the year I had a surprise prepared for all of us who are part of BITAFAL. Our director and founder Diego Kröger has decided to take a break from his path as an entrepreneur.
After more than 40 years of work, where together with his brother Claudio they made BITAFAL a leading company in the road development of Uruguay, Diego decides to give way to the new generations, who continue the path of permanent innovation and sustainability, two pillars fundamental in the past and future of the company.
The good news is that Diego continues his journey, now along the paths of his other great passion: art. As an outstanding plastic artist that he is, he will soon be inaugurating his own painting and sculpture exhibition in Manantiales, which will surely be a must-see on the regional art scene.
For all of us who make BITAFAL, we can only say Thank you Diego, BITAFAL will always be your home!!
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