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The MIT Energy Initiative and MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program renew collaborations with Ferrovial

Ferrovial is committing $5 million to support low-carbon energy and sustainable infrastructure research at MIT

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Cambridge, Mass. and Madrid, Spain, 15 April, 2021 – The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) have renewed their collaborations with international infrastructure company Ferrovial. The company has extended its status as an associate member of MITEI, and is continuing its membership in MIT’s ILP.

“We are pleased that Ferrovial will continue to support the innovative work coming from MIT’s energy research community through its membership with MITEI,” says Robert Armstrong, the director of the MIT Energy Initiative.

Over the next five years, Ferrovial will invest $5 million to support low-carbon energy and sustainable infrastructure research at MIT. The company first became a member of ILP in 2007, and MITEI member in 2011. The research collaboration with MITEI has benefited projects in areas including building energy technologies, software automation for identifying energy service opportunities, uses for brine byproducts from seawater desalinization, sustainable urban mobility, and more.

Ferrovial will also continue its membership in MITEI’s Mobility Systems Center, which continues the multidisciplinary research started under the three-year Mobility of the Future Study. The company’s participation in the study’s consortium of members helped advance understanding of the different factors that are shaping personal mobility at different scales, from global and national markets to policy and mobility choices at the city and individual levels. The study report, Insights into Future Mobility, was published in 2019 and has been a resource for stakeholders in industry and government as they navigate the challenges and opportunities ahead.

“The collaboration between Ferrovial and MITEI has resulted in twenty-five research projects in the development and management of sustainable infrastructure, including water, sustainability, mobility, engineering, and digitalization,” says Dimitris Bountolos, Ferrovial’s chief information and innovation officer. “In recent years there has been a growing demand for collaboration focused on mobility and data.”

“We deeply value the industry insights that our ILP members from around the world bring to the MIT community,” says Karl Koster, the executive director of the MIT Office of Corporate Relations. “We believe that perspective helps drive the real-world application of technology innovations emerging from MIT.”

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About the MIT Energy Initiative

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) is MIT’s hub for energy research, education, and outreach. Through these three pillars, MITEI plays a catalytic role in accelerating responses to the many challenges facing our global energy system. MITEI’s mission is to develop low- and no-carbon solutions to efficiently, affordably, and sustainably meet global energy needs while minimizing environmental impacts, dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigating climate change. To advance this mission, MITEI brings together researchers from across the Institute and facilitates collaborations with industry and government. MITEI and its member companies and organizations support hundreds of research projects across the Institute.

About the MIT Industrial Liaison Program

The Industrial Liaison Program is instrumental in providing connections to MIT faculty, departments, labs, and centers. It serves companies across the globe and is organized both geographically and by industry. In addition to corporate partners, ILP also helps regional governmental organizations who look to the unique, entrepreneurial MIT/Cambridge environment as they begin to develop their own regional innovation ecosystems. Learn more at ilp.mit.edu.

About Ferrovial

Ferrovial, a leading global infrastructure operator, is committed to developing sustainable solutions. It is a member of Spain’s blue-chip IBEX 35 index and an industry leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index; it is part of FTSE4Good and the Carbon Disclosure Project, and all its operations are conducted in compliance with the principles of the UN Global Compact, which the company adopted in 2002. For more information visit www.ferrovial.com.

Press Inquiries:

MITEI Media Relations
miteimedia@mit.edu

Ferrovial Corporate Communications
North America
Chris Lippincott
+1 512-461-2980
christopher.lippincott@ferrovial.com

Europe
Paula Lacruz
+34 626 12 93 00
placruz@ferrovial.com


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