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People
good ideas
The winners of the
2
nd
Edition of
the Eco-efficiency awards
are colleagues who,
if anything distinguishes
them, is their great ideas,
worthy of the FCC Group’s
recognition.
A small idea could be the start of a major
project. Bill Gates and Paul Allen, a school-
mate, founded Microsoft in 1975. Fruit of
a visionary idea, he decided to carry it out
in the garage at his house. A few years la-
ter, Steve Jobs founded Apple jointly with
his childhood friend Steve Wozniak, also
at his garage, an event that has revolutio-
nised the world of computers forever. Both
are great example of how and where great
successful ideas are born.
Manuel, Miguel Ángel, Ignacio, Antonio
and Álvaro, all winners at the II Edition of
the Eco-Efficiency Awards, are the prota-
gonists of our story. The first four submit-
ted the project “Automatic traffic restriction
system for improving air quality in Madrid”
and Álvaro wagered on the candidacy of his
“Project for the design of an eco-efficient
worksite shack”.
The idea of the winners who submitted the
project “Automatic traffic restriction system
for improving air quality in Madrid” came up
in a very typical Spanish way. It was not in
their garage but rather at an outdoor terra-
The group
including Manuel
Fernández, Miguel Ángel
Ramírez, Ignacio Báñez
and Antonio Benítez work
at the Conservation and
Systems department
Eco-efficiency prizes for
ce one evening in early summer. “The four
of us were sitting down at a terrace of a bar
having a drink and eating tapas... and each
of us have our own way of getting an idea
and putting it into practice and our way is
a very Spanish one”, they said. “Our idea
came when we looked at the sky of Ma-