Sacyr's Blog

As well as designing cranes and studying gear systems in detail, Da Vinci sketched out plans of what an ideal city would look like without sanitation or transport problems. We analyse how the influence of this Italian Renaissance genius lives on in urban planning 500 years later.

A team of MIT scientists hopes to turn virtually any surface into a noise-cancelling speaker. Details about the novel technology behind this goal have been published in the scientific journal IEEE Transactions of Industrial Electronics.

To move the Statue of Liberty from France to New York, it had to be disassembled into 350 pieces and packed into 214 crates. We look at the design, construction and transport of the structure that welcomed millions of immigrants who came to the continent in search of the American dream.

From the first device capable of recording and reproducing sound to the forerunner of the modern film projector and an alkaline battery for electric cars. We look at the achievements of one of history's most famous inventors, who was awarded more than 1,000 patents in the United States.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is inflicting $4.5 billion a week worth of damage to structures and buildings of all kinds. The country's heritage is under threat. We analyse how the bombardments, in addition to demolishing hundreds of pieces of infrastructures and destroying 2,500 kilometres of roads, are having an impact on churches, museums, historic buildings, monuments and libraries.