Argos
Innovation Center
Argos has come up with a venue in which the challenges to the cement and concrete industry meet with the solutions provided by the academic world, thereby promoting the discovery of new uses for these materials that are key to our ongoing development. All this as part of a collaborative work environment has made available the Company’s leading-edge laboratories to researchers, students and professors from all universities, so that they may create open and pluralistic solutions in terms of materials, processes and applications. Argos believes that gender equality encompasses the inclusion of both women and men given the important social roles both play in the workplace.
Devising, creating, imagining and proposing innovative solutions to address the challenges facing our industry are just some of the Center’s objectives, thereby providing a tangible approach to the concept of science.
We are convinced of the value of employability and income generation as a means of empowerment that allows us to help overcome social inequality and honor our social debt, as well as to create more capital for the country’s economic and social development.
Employees, students and professors from all universities, laboratories are provided with the use of our leading-edge laboratories so that they may come up with open and pluralistic solutions in terms of materials, processes and applications.
The Argos Innovation Center, set up in partnership with the Universidad EAFIT, is one of the most important ideas that Argos has come up with in recent times. The amount of research and innovation that goes on in this Center shall provide new and improved functionalities to new generations of concrete and cement products, thereby advancing our Industry’s technological and sustainable development.
Investment
Investment
$25.000
million pesos in the actual construction
$5.000
million in laboratory equipment
laboratories
12 laboratories
Processes, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), sample preparation, concretes, applications, electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ray, physical, chemical, thermal, instrumental analysis and biotechnology and micro algae cultures.
Building
design
Building
Design
Architect: Lorenzo Castro Selected from four proponents as part of an architectural competition sponsored by Argos and EAFIT.
Design parameters
Dessign
Parameters
LEED sustainable construction.
The building is in the process of applying for its LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification in the Gold category, this to be awarded by the USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council).

Construction
Construction
4.807 m2
Total constructed area.
6.845 m2
Total area corresponding to construction and open public spaces
4.492 m3
of concrete used
4.492 m3
of value-added Argos products
Vegetation
Native or adopted vegetation
Promoting species biodiversity and reducing the consumption of potable water for plant irrigation purposes.
Plants provide cover for 45% of the total area
This reduces the urban heat island effect.
Value added
63% deproducts are value-added products.
Prefabricated in high-strength concrete, colored paving concrete, colored pervious concrete, industrial flooring concrete, and self-compacting concrete.
reduction in water consumption
72% reduction in water consumption
Rainwater collection system located on the roofs of the building reduces the use of potable water.
Workstations
60 workstations
Between fixed and mobile
Reduction in energy consumption
44% reduction in energy consumption
Thanks to the specification of its light fittings and the efficiency of its design, the building's energy consumption was reduced by 44%
alternative
transportation
12 bicycle racks / 6 showers
Facilitating access to the building through an alternative and environmentally friendly transportation system.
links
Innovation Architecture
Innovaciones
en la ingeniería civil
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