OHL takes its Cubipod patent to Denmark

OHL has exported the Cubipod to Denmark, a RDI development for the construction of the main mantle of slope breakwaters in ports. Specifically, it will be used in the Hamsthol port breakwater.

In addition, the company is studying implementing this technological innovation, which has been successfully used in port in Spain and Algiers, in other geographical locations after carrying out scale tests in laboratories in Mexico, Germany, Denmark or Spain.

The Cubipod was developed in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Valencia and has important advantages with respect to the traditional cubic block such as its great strength and structural resistance, at the same time as it corrects its disadvantages by preventing cobbling and friction with the inferior layer.  To this we must add the simplicity of its manufacturing, manipulation, installation and storage, the savings in materials and costs that its use entails and the reduction of the ecological footprint. 

This innovation has received outstanding recommendation such as the Gold Medal in the 39th edition of the Geneva International Inventions Fair, Award for the Best Spanish Invention from the Spanish patents agency García-Cabrerizo, National Award for Innovation for its first real application in the Port of Malaga, or most recently, Quality Innovation Award granted by the National Association of Excellence Centers.

Over 300 RDI projects

OHL, with a business line for the exploitation of technologies resulting from RDI, totals over 300 projects in this area, projects in which it has participated with partners of over 20 countries.  As a result of these projects, as well as of innovations recovered from other projects executed in countries such as Spain, Czech Republic, The United States, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Turkey, Australia or Saudi Arabia, OHL now has 11 active patent families, among which those that are applied in constructive process stand out.

Cubipods in the Port of Algiers. Algeria.