FCC Construcción
participates
in the new
“SPIA” R+D+I Project
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Garments for individual use.
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Not dependant on external conditions and/or factors related to the activity.
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Highly resistant to continued use and dirtiness.
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Visibility regardless of external light.
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Fully autonomous during the entire working day (10-12 hours).
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Cost affordable for the businessman.
Characteristics of the luminescent garments
New high-visibility
Signalling Systems
Financed by the
Ministry of the Economy
and Competitiveness
Co-financed by
the European Union with
FEDER funds
FCC jointly with NOVATEX, the Centro de
Investigación de Nanomateriales y Nano-
tecnología (Nanomaterials and Nanote-
chnology Research Centre, CINN-CSIC)
and Fundación ITMA (Instituto Tecnológico
de Materiales), participates in the “SPIA”
R+D+i Project. The objective of this pro-
ject is to design, develop, test, and imple-
ment new high-visibility signalling systems,
creating a series of autonomous luminous
garments for individual use made of smart
textiles (photoluminescent, electrolumines-
cent) and “energy harvesting” devices (pie-
zoelectric or ferromagnetic).
Research on these materials started in
2011 and will continue to be conducted,
analysing the process, developing and in-
dustrialising new materials up to the end of
2014.
The “SPIA” project seizes the technologi-
cal advantages of textile nanotechnology
to develop new smart materials (phospho-
rescent and electroluminescent), manufac-
turing functional textiles with luminescent
properties. The project also aims to develop
an adequate high visibility system to take
advantage, by means of piezoelectric devi-
ces, of the energy generated while walking
to feed the LEDs embedded in footwear
and/or other garments.
The novelties and improvement resulting
from the SPIA Project represent a great
technological leap in occupational hazard
prevention since the new equipment being
developed will make it completely unneces-
sary to have external light in order to have
visibility and its surface will have greater lu-
minosity thereby reducing the serious risk
of accidents caused by being run over or
by being hit.
The aim is to develop prototypes of gar-
ments made of phosphorescent fabrics,
adapted to the various fields requiring the
use of individual protection equipment with
the high visibility properties as contempla-
ted in Spanish Royal Decree 1407/1992
and, beyond this decree, marketing of the-
se products thereby improving upon the
current systems for preventing the risks as-
sociated with the lack of visibility.
