Within the framework of its calendar of activities, the Uruguayan Road Association organized, between May 27 and 29, 2026 at the CAF Auditorium, an international meeting together with the World Road Association (PIARC) aimed at professional updating and trends in the industry at a global level. BITAFAL was present through its technical/commercial team, actively participating in the conferences with excellent technical and academic content.

On this occasion, the conference was dedicated to “Intelligent Road Asset Management: Innovation and Technology at the Service of Infrastructure”, addressing topics of great importance for the present and future of the industry. Issues such as digital transformation and AI, sustainable management and its importance in new contracts, new IT tools endorsed by PIARC, were analyzed in depth by a panel of top-level professionals, providing a vision of the challenges that road construction already faces at a global level.

As a fundamental conclusion, the congress made it clear that managing a road today means managing information throughout its life cycle. Moving from a culture of “emergency repair” to one of “preventive and intelligent maintenance” reduces costs for the State, improves user safety and contributes directly to the sustainable development of the country.

Predictive models, the choice and use of appropriate computer tools, today allow the management of roads and bridges, anticipating the problems generated by their use and generating the most economical and least harmful solutions for their normal operation. A special chapter dealt with the management of sustainability in road construction and its inclusion in contracts, the possibilities of accessing bonds or financing conditional on the fulfillment of environmental goals, a topic that BITAFAL has been part of its verticals for years.

The International Conference of the Uruguayan Road Association was a new demonstration that the joint work of companies, academia and authorities is essential for the country to move towards road development at the level of the most developed systems in the world.