{"id":240866,"date":"2024-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/sin-categoria\/cimne-celebrates-official-opening-of-lleida-facilities\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:46:38","slug":"cimne-celebrates-official-opening-of-lleida-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/cimne-celebrates-official-opening-of-lleida-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"CIMNE celebrates official opening of Lleida facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (<strong>CIMNE<\/strong>) yesterday celebrated the official opening of its <\/span><b>research facilities in Lleida<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an office and lab space within Lleida&rsquo;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/parclleida.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Agrobiotech research park<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new facilities, opened in 2022, host the centre&rsquo;s<\/span> <b><i>Building, Energy, and Environment<\/i><\/b><b> Innovation Unit<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beegroup-cimne.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BEE Group<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">), a highly-specialized team working on big data and artificial intelligence solutions to reduce building energy consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lleida city mayor, Mr. <\/span><b>Felix Larrosa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, joined CIMNE&rsquo;s director Dr. <\/span><b>Javier Bonet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Managing Director, Ms. <\/span><b>Anna Font<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and BEE Group leader, Dr. <\/span><b>Jordi Cipriano<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in the opening ceremony, which was also attended by Agrobiotech Park&rsquo;s director, Mr. <\/span><b>Miquel Aran<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and Mr. <\/span><b>Roberto Garc&iacute;a Gonz&aacute;lez<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, deputy to the Vice-Rectorate for Knowledge Transfer at the University of Lleida.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimne.com\/cvdata\/cntr2\/spc2\/dtos\/mdia\/News\/20240629_Lleida.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Dr. Bonet&rsquo;s words, the new facilities will leverage BEE Group&rsquo;s potential to &ldquo;working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy management&rdquo;, offering &ldquo;tangible solutions&rdquo; for researchers, organizations, and society to &ldquo;<\/span><b>address the energy transition challenge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&rdquo;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CIMNE&rsquo;s BEE Group research lines span <\/span><b>different facets of energy efficiency<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, ranging from demand-response solutions, user behaviour tools, big data analytics, biodigester technology, and energy community management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The group was founded in 2001 as an autonomous research department at CIMNE and has led or take part in dozens of international research and technology transfer projects, including <\/span><b>five <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beegroup-cimne.com\/technology-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>spin-off companies.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The BEE Group team is formed by <strong>2<\/strong><\/span><b>0 multidisciplinary experts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, between staff scientists, research engineers, postdocs, PhD students, and collaborators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.2em\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimne.com\/cvdata\/cntr2\/spc2\/dtos\/mdia\/News\/20240629_Lleida_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) yesterday celebrated the official opening of its research facilities in Lleida, an office and lab space within Lleida&rsquo;s Agrobiotech research park. 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