Can a piece of music capture a commitment to progress and sustainability? In this feature, we explore how Lucas Vidal—Emmy and double Goya award-winner—composed a musical theme to accompany ACCIONA’s work. Performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra, it is a sound journey that fuses emotion, innovation and collective effort. 

An infrastructure project can be an integral part of nature while also protecting communities from extreme weather events. A living example of this is the flood-control channel ACCIONA is building on the border between North Dakota and Minnesota. 

After more than twenty years turning wind into energy, the blades of this Tahivilla wind turbine are beginning a new life, defined by sustainability and circular innovation, in the sole of a sneaker. Read the full story here.

Water takes centre stage at the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso in Spain. Today, National Photography Prize winner Javier Vallhonrat, the palace’s Royal Plumber Luis Vallejo, and Ana Jiménez, Innovation Manager at ACCIONA, come together to uncover its mysteries in a contemplative documentary produced by ACCIONA in collaboration with PhotoESPAÑA and National Heritage. See it for yourself.

In the heart of northern Canada, ACCIONA has built one of its largest infrastructures on a global scale: a hydroelectric dam capable of supplying clean energy to nearly half a million homes. A milestone in sustainable engineering, built under extreme conditions and now a reality after nearly a decade of work. Discover it in this story.

Building a wind farm in Alberta (Canada) presents a unique technical and logistical challenge — but also a major opportunity. In an environment defined by extreme temperatures and demanding terrain, ACCIONA Energía has demonstrated its ability to adapt and innovate, bringing its largest wind farm in North America to life. Would you like to find out how they made it happen?

Historical ecology is a new, interdisciplinary field exploring artistic and archaeological sources to record the state of biodiversity in the past. As such, paintings, such as those by Monet and Turner, in this way become an involuntary record of ecosystem evolution.

Protecting a natural park is just the first step. Without animals, forests are merely a postcard. Rewilding is restoring life to ecosystems so they can return to operating alone and how they were before human intervention.

Kris Tompkins lives in a house of just over 1,500 square feet in a California farming town. She spearheaded one of the largest private land donations in modern history, helping to protect a combined area larger than Portugal or Costa Rica. Amaro Gómez-Pablos sits down with her for an interview that challenges our very definitions of success, wealth, and legacy.

Labeling theory suggests that the names we give people and things don’t just describe but also mold behavior. Does this also happen when something is declared to be “sustainable”? Is being sustainable a state or a process? Below, we discuss the subject 

Wetland conservation is not just essential for protecting the environment and biodiversity, it has important economic benefits and brings about better well-being in society.

Road traffic, endless construction works, industrial activity and so many other noisy stimuli that people living in big cities are exposed to carry a serious risk to health and the environment. While focused on continuing to fight environmental pollution, we must not forget that noise pollution also affects our well-being

Climate change, the emergence of new demand sources—such as data centres and hydrogen—soaring energy costs, and supply shortages are fast-tracking innovation in agricultural irrigation systems.

A team of researchers has successfully transformed Edison’s century-old nickel-iron battery into an ultra-fast charging device that could revolutionise renewable energy storage.

A team of Korean researchers has developed a 3D smart energy device capable of switching between heating and cooling modes without any external power source.

Buildings in our cities could soon harvest atmospheric water for irrigation or human consumption, thanks to a pioneering smart paint developed by the University of Sydney in Australia.

Despite the formidable obstacles in their path, the underground progress of these gargantuan machines makes the impossible a reality: carving out rail, metro, and road tunnels beneath deep seas, solid rock, and thriving cities.

The technology sector is fuelling an unprecedented crisis of trust. Artificial intelligence is making it possible to question the authenticity of images and videos themselves, while autonomous systems — with no identity and no legal accountability — operate with human-like capabilities at machine scale and speed.

Learning the classics and applying them to the day-to-day can change our way of living in the world and add purpose to our professional lives.

Fernando Mínguez works as the Executive Director of the Concessionaire for the São Paulo Metro Line 6 Project, which ACCIONA is currently undertaking in Brazil. He was one of the first to dive into the international experience and today marks thirty-five years with the company—always embracing new challenges and, along the way, learning new languages.

“I don’t know what’s going on” is a recently published article that tackles leadership within highly complex organisational environments. It’s the starting point for exploring situated decisions—those choices that are, by their very nature, imperfect.

Knowing a lot is not synonymous with advancing faster. In complex and changing environments, the skills to connect knowledge, collaborate and adapt become a decisive factor for both individuals and organisations.

Claudia Montenegro is a civil builder for ACCIONA in Chile. She took a radical turn in her life, moving from being a homemaker to becoming a key figure in the construction of the Marga Marga Provincial Hospital nursery—the first project of its kind built entirely by female hands.

Real decisions don’t emerge from a single office, but are the result of a fluid, logical conversation among the team as a whole.