The new strategic model that the Government of Spain wants small and medium-sized companies to follow is to incorporate the culture of design and innovation into their business. The State Society for the Development of Design and Innovation (DDI) awarded Idom the assistance to implement this model in more than 120 companies from the regions of Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, and Galicia, in its journey towards the systematization of design and innovation processes. To carry out this project, the largest yet in design and innovation i ...

Midland Quarry Project was “highly commended” in the ‘UK Project Over £1M’ category at the Ground Engineering Awards which was held in London on 6th February 2009. The former stone quarry of some 16 hectares is located approximately 1 km to the northwest of Nuneaton, Warwickshire - situated midway between the cities of Birmingham and Leicester in United Kingdom.
Quarrying commenced about 1885 and ceased during the late 1990’s, when the quarry had developed as two distinct voids – a large deep main void which had partly flooded and a smaller parab ...

The city of Vitoria (Spain) has recently joined the list of European cities which have bet on the light rail as a mean of transport of medium capacity to promote mobility in cities by public transport as opposed to private vehicles.
IDOM put the whole project together for the tram line and the Depot and Garage building and helped in the management of building and starting up the line, putting its experienced technicians from other tram projects in Bilbao, Granada, Tenerife, Seville, Porto, Barcelona and Madrid at the disposal of the Basque Govern ...

Atizapan de Zaragoza is a dynamic and active metropolitan municipality north of Mexico City, which grew rapidly during the industrial momentum experienced by Mexico in the 1980s.
The Ministry for Economic Development in Mexico and the Mexiquense Council on Science and Technology (COMECYT) have chosen Atizapan to support the development of a pioneer technology park in the country oriented towards communication and information technologies.
IDOM was hired to draw up the strategic plan to identify and select the park model and focus together with t ...

The AIC opened its facilities in January (in Bizkaia, Spain). IDOM drew up the architectural design, the project detail and managed the building site of this complex international benchmark in the automotive industry.
Innovation, in the broad sense of the word, will give the most relevant edge in the automobile sector, which has always managed to reinvent itself throughout its history; however, it now has to play a more decisive role thanks to new requirements for quality, safety, the environment and vehicle comfort. Cooperation with vehicle manu ...

Fast growing SME’s are companies that produce a high yield for investors, promote regional development, generate satisfaction in managers and employees and contribute to creating jobs. Venture capital companies, public authorities and researchers are deeply interested in fast-growing companies. Unfortunately only three to five per cent of SME’s that are set up have the potential to generate significant wealth and employment.

In order to obtain deeper knowledge and characterisation of fast growing SME’s, the Multilateral Investment Fund (FOMIN) ...

Today, the procedure to determine the ocular deviation is completely manual (using prisms) and the error is huge. IDOM has developed a new diagnostic system that use the highest technology to provide a revolutionary precision: the “Ocular Motility DIGitizer” (DigMo Project).
This project is only an example of IDOM’s commitment to innovation within the health system. The Firm is developing an Innovation Management System for the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God at Barcelona, in collaboration with the Barcelona Professional Association of Doc ...

Sia Patollo, a Latvian company of Norwegian and English capital, is developing a shopping centre in Riga. The centre consists of seven floors with a terrace and underground parking. The gross leasable area (GLA) is 40,000 m2 and will include 220 shops and restaurants. The developer is expecting 30,000 visitors a day.
The work began in December 2007, starting with the construction of a peripheral wall based on a pile system. The developer contracted IDOM to review and coordinate the installation design (air-conditioning, plumbing, electricity, fir ...