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IBM closed its factory in Valencia 30 years ago. Now he has returned with AI and technology talent formation under his arm

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Thirty years after close your historic factory of electronic circuits in La Pobla de Vallbona, IBM has announced his return to Valencia with a renewed and strategic commitment. The technological multinational has created a “Digital Sales” center in the Innovation Incubator The terminal hubin the Navy of Valencia. The new IBM initiative in the city of Turia is raised as an “erasmus” for the acceleration of the New technological talent of the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Although the space allows to house 250 employees, the company will begin this new stage with the creation of one hundred new direct jobs for the implementation of an international training program for young professionals of the technological firm. The number of employees will increase in the future, but IBM has not advanced any concrete figure. The new IBM stage in Valencia IBM has decided to return to Valencia with a completely different vision from that of three decades ago. If its presence was linked to the manufacture of hardware, now the company is committed to advanced services and commercial management of technological solutions Based on artificial intelligencestorage, cloud services and automation. As its name affects, the new “Digital Sales” center will focus on promoting the skills of its employees of the Departments of Commercial Relations and Sales, integrating into the area of ​​influence of The Terminal Hub. Horacio Morell, president of IBM Spain, has indicated the importance of returning in an enclave full of incubators and innovation nurseries, consolidating the city as A pole of attraction For him International Technological Talent. “From these facilities, we will connect talent, technology and ecosystem to help companies accelerate the adoption of avant -garde solutions in AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity and automation,” Morell stood out in the presentation of the project. An international “erasmus” of technological talent The great novelty of this center is its approach to the Talent formation and acceleration international. IBM has launched a program that selects young professionals in their countries of origin and Transfer to Valencia for a year of training Intensive in new technologies. During this period, participants not only receive theoretical training, but also actively work with real clients, acquiring practical experience and key commercial skills. According to Gabrielle Crisman, director of the center, “the objective is to train the new IBM sales executives that will offer customer and agile experiences promoted by technology.” “After that period, most will return to places of origin to develop their work,” Morell said. The mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, highlighted the importance of this program for Youth employment: “Young people need to find quality work and projects like this help us to achieve this goal,” collected The Spanish. In addition, the company has remarked that the center represents “an opportunity to newly titled young peopleprofessionals with experience in technology and digital sales experts who wish to develop their career in a global company, without leaving Valencia. “ IBM has bet again on Valencia for this strategic project for several reasons. Among the most outstanding factors are excellent living conditions and climate of the city as an incentive for the participants in the training program. On the other hand, from IBM the institutional support of the City Council stands out, the Chamber of Commerceuniversities and other business organizations. “The election of Valencia, by IBM, shows that Valencia has established itself as the technological hub par excellence in Europe,” declared to the The economist Mayor María José Catalá. In Xataka | IBM fired 8,000 workers to replace them with AI. What I did not expect was to hire many others … for the AI Image | The Terminal Hub, IBM

An urbanization was deserted in Valencia after the real estate bubble. Some geniuses have made it ‘Call of Duty’

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The real estate bubble It has had, at least, a positive effect: abandoned residential areas are born to be born a sudden and sporadic new life when they are assaulted by groups of Airsoft fans, a kind of ‘Call of Duty’ in real life that could not aspire to more colorful and appropriate scenarios than those of site as seven waters. What is Airsoft? An activity that Simulates tactical fighting using reprisons of firearms that trigger small plastic balines. These weapons are Real -scale replicas but they do not entail danger (they cannot even be manipulated to become real weapons). The objective is to meet missions or eliminate the opposite team, and over time this hobby has diversified in different styles, ranging from the Recreation of historical battles to modern war clashes that remind it of ‘Call of Duty’. The unusual clash between the Airsoft and the real estate bubble. Airsoft is played in closed environments, which can range from areas specially designed to it to more open but security controls. For example, abandoned industrial areas or empty peoples are used. On many occasions the associations that organize Airsoft games run into legal requirements that require the delimitation of the pitch so that the balls do not exceed their limits or the express permit of the land owner and the corresponding licenses. Therefore, an area like seven waters is especially appreciated by fans. What is seven waters? Seven waters is A municipality in the province of Valencia54 kilometers from the capital and surrounded by a mountain natural environment. It has 1279 inhabitants and a remarkable story with vestiges of the Muslim era, but the most interesting for Airsoft practitioners is an unfinished urbanization where only the streets and about 50 homes were built. The constructions (whose future plans included 684 villas, a shopping center, a hotel and a golf course, all with US financing) They were paralyzed in 2007 for the outbreak of the real estate bubble, and although it is not the only area around seven waters that are abandoned (there are An empty village very close, the reatillo), is the only one that has been recycled for Airsoft practice. Legal Airsoft. The treatment that has reached the Airsoft Plairsoft association and the owner of the urbanizations It is simple and benefits all those involved: the area is rented as a space for sports use, which prevents cases of occupation and vandalism; The owner puts the basic elements of security and surveillance, and the nearby seven waters receive a thrust in its economy and dynamization of other activities (in the area It is practiced mountaineering, riding, Mountain Bikeparagliding and hiking), which take advantage of the natural environment. Zombi attraction park. In 3Dguegosour partner Rubén Márquez compared the reuse of this space to what a few years ago He could see in Detroit: a city with neighborhoods so abandoned that in its day the possibility of recycling them was raised as Zombi theme attraction park. That did not set to curdle, but it is inevitable to think of projects like that when we see men disguised as soldiers with plastic guns, in environments that could have been very close to habitability, with villas that on the outside seem almost functional. A zombie amusement park, but where the guns do not kill. Header | Plairsoft In Xataka | A new movement has emerged in the US: Current people with AR-15 rifles preparing for a social collapse

Valencia tested the four -day work week. A town of Cádiz of 1,355 inhabitants has been the first to implement it

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Zahara de la Sierra, a municipality of just 1,355 inhabitants in the province of Cádiz, has decided to step forward in the Organization of your work day and rise as the first session to adopt the four -day work week and face the challenge of the reduction of the day that is currently located Parliamentary process. Inspired by the pilot experience carried out in Valencia, the City Council of this picturesque Cadiz people have implemented the four -day work week For its municipal staff. The news has generated great expectation, not only for the novelty of the measure, but for the enthusiasm he has aroused among the employees themselves. Zahara de la Sierra adopts four days. The City of Zahara de la Sierra has decided to reduce the working day of its 32 public employees of the current 37.5 hours per week in five working days, to a 35 -hour day distributed in four days per week. Thus, this small population located in the limits of the Natural Park of the Sierra de Grazalema becomes the first public body to adopt that day model. The mayor’s initiative. The implementation of the four -day working hours arises at the initiative of the mayor, such as conciliation measure For public employees of your City Council. The reduction will be implemented voluntarily and will allow workers to fight one day a week, either on Monday or Friday, rotatingly. To complete the remaining hours until adding 35, they will have to work or on Tuesdays or Thursdays in the afternoon. As Mayor Santiago Galván explains in statements to The country: “It’s totally optional. If you have children, enter at 9, no and you like to get up early, enter at 7:30”. This flexibility aims to adapt to the conciliation needs of each employee without affecting the attention to the public that is covered five days a week by rotating shifts. “In the end, the work has to be as a goal, that of being encapsulated in hours is a fatal mistake. That does not benefit anyone, I prefer flexibility,” said the mayor. An agreement with the union support. Beyond being a pioneer initiative in public administration in Spain, the mayor has had the consensus of workers and the CSIF union, a majority in public administrations. According to collect Diario de Cádizthe officials union positively value the measure, considering it “the starting point for all local municipalities and entities to take it as an example.” Francisco Silvestre, head of Local Administration of CSIF Cádiz, explained that “municipal staff deserves the improvement of their working conditions, facilitating, among other issues, family conciliation; but also, by optimizing resources, citizenship care schedules can be expanded and, consequently, also improve the service offered”, so the measure will not only benefit employees, but also result in the citizenship. Learning others’ head. Despite being a pioneer initiative in a public organization, There are already private companies That they have adopted this model of day, so the Consistory can take advantage of that previous experience to solve possible problems that may arise. In addition, the pilot program of the four -day working hours that took place In Valenciaalready advances the benefits that can be expected in that small Gaditano municipality. The different tests performed all over the world They agree to aim an almost immediate improvement in the well -being of the workers, Reduction of labor casualties and an increase in commitment. In addition, a Fall in productivity attributable to the change in the working day model. Valencia and Iceland tests reported that the adoption of four -day work week encouraged local consumption and economy due to the increase in the free time of workers. These data reinforce the idea that four -day work week can be a viable and beneficial formula for different sectors, among which is the public sector, although it is not viable in all companies. In Xataka | Not everything is 38.5 hours a week: the formulas for a waiter or temporary to benefit from the reduction of day Image | Wikimedia Commons (80 km/h)

Valencia feared that the housing market sink into the areas devastated by the DANA. The opposite has happened

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The Dana that He hit the province From Valencia in October it was so violent, it caused so many damage and affected so many people, that in the real estate agencies of the area they feared that the market was upside down. “It was thought that it was going to sink into the most devastated areas,” Recognize The sector. Reality has been another. The region has not only maintained The tension Between supply and demand suffered before the Dana, but has added an extra factor: Damage who suffered hundreds of households. The Association of Real Estate of the Valencian Community (ASCival) has published A report It helps to better understand how the market has responded. “We saw that the demand was strong”. Nora García Donet, president of ASCival, acknowledges that the market response after the Dana has even surprised the sector. After the rains they feared a puncture in the market, but reality has been quite different: the demand remained high while the offer (which in many cases was already subject to intense pressure before disaster) It was marked by the loss of households razed by rain and mud. “In the first moments it was thought that the market was going to sink into the areas most devastated by the Dana, but soon we saw that the demand was strong in a context in which many homes had been inoperative, and this trend is the one that has been maintained over time,” Donet points out. That equation has ended up moving to another key element: prices. A percentage: 18%. The report Ascival provides a fundamental fact to understand the drift of the market: the price of housing has increased by 18% in the municipalities hit by the DANA. More specifically 18.8% in the sale market and 18.1% in the lease. Translated to counting and sound money that means that houses for sale in the affected areas cost 171,428 euros while the rentals are around 800. The provinces has deepened Something else and calculates that a floor for sale in the towns razed by the downpours has increased, on average, about 32,000 euros. In the case of homes for rent, the price increase would be at 145 euros per month. All compared to the values ​​of seven months ago. What is the reason? The same that usually causes price increases in normal conditions: the imbalances between supply and demand. In Your study Ascival indicates a growing decoupling between both both in the sale market and in the rental. In the first case, the association calculates that the demand for houses for sale has shot 22% while the offer has fallen by 31.3%. In the second case, that of the Property Market to lease, the demand has shot 27.1% with the offering supply (38%). “Little more than six months after the devastating consequences of the DANA, the real estate situation in the affected municipalities follows the same trend of price and demand and contribution trend and contrition of the housing supply as in the rest of the Valencian territory,” Point out As a conclusion the Asicval report. That reality is verified by the region’s own agencies. More than half (54.3%) ensures that the supply of housing for sale has decreased and almost 90%(87.5%) have noticed price orange blossom. 58% also believe that there is more rental demand, while 96% consider that the supply has been maintained or dropped. The role of the Dana. The report It does not detail to what extent the increase can be related to the effect of the DANA or its influence on supply and demand, although it does slide some interesting data. The main one is that most people interested in buying or renting a house in the affected municipalities are locals. This is perceived at least by the agencies, which also ensure that customers do not seem especially interested in knowing whether or not the properties are in flood areas, but they do prefer apartments in height buildings. The tension in the market is not new, nor has it emerged after the October disaster. In 2024 Idealista published A report in which he already pointed out that the district with the greatest pressure in the demand for housing in Spain was in the Central-Horte de Trenor area, in Torrent. During the last months the house It has become more expensive Also in the whole of the province of Valencia, not only in the areas affected by the DANA. What the torrential rains did was sweep hundreds of homesdamaging them or leaving them temporarily uninhabitable. Image | Manuel Pérez García and Estefania Monerri Mínguez (Wikipedia) In Xataka | An old dream is injured in Barcelona: the idea of ​​”a house for a lifetime” without fear of move

In Valencia the shepherds resist the disappearance of their trade, so they have had an idea: to turn it into “career”

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When Antonio Miguel (grandson, son and nephew of shepherds) began to take care of cattle in Side of Los Olmosprovince of Valencia, lived with 64 other colleagues. Today there are so few that you can count on your fingers. Recently He reported in The provinces They are just ten. And at 63 he will soon fall out of the list. Your goodbye will aggravate the situation of a falling layer sector in Valencian lands, where the number of professionals He has sunk In just a few decades. To cut that trend and claim the profession, there are those who are trying to move forward an idea in other regions of Spain: A SCHOOL OF PASTORS. A sector in low hours. Beyond testimonies such as Antonio, data draw a complicated panorama for Valencian grazing. Let’s see. Some estimates They estimate that around 1,500 shepherds worked in the community. Today they would be just over 300. Together, the INE shows that the Valencian territory has lost about 30% of its territorial agricultural livestock capacity throughout the last decade. The problem is not much less exclusive of the Valencian Community (occurs in other parts from Spain), but it does paint a future with clouds. A protagonist: Opem. With that backdrop, a few years ago Paco Rubio, livestock, pastor and technician Alicante, joined other colleagues to create the Mediterranean Extensive Pastoralism Observatory (Better known for their acronym: Opem), which basically aspires to “empower” the extensive shepherds and ranchers in the region, give them greater visibility and help them maintain their farms. Throughout the OPEM years he has moved several initiatives, but there is one (in very initial phase) that has achieved a special impact: the organization wants Mediterranean Center. Neither simple, nor limited to Spain. Your goal It is that in the center the concepts of veterinarian are taught, future shepherds are taught how they should treat animals, different types of land and their peculiarities and the way of acting before fires, animal attacks or any other unforeseen event. The trade is not simple (cattle must be taken 365 days a year, without exceptions), but offers a job departure, helps to set population and also has its own horizon, beyond the Spanish field: in Switzerland or Austria professionals are demanded to work during certain months a year. And at what point are they? The idea is not exactly new. Carries on the table now Some years. But Opem has been working on it and especially moving to make it known throughout the region. With the support of the Diputación, he has studied the needs of the territory and organizes informative talks on the “activation of the Valencian School of Pastors”. His desire, he insists, is “to form new generations of farmers, encourage generational relief and promote a model that combines food production, conservation and environmental sustainability.” In recent months he has talked about her in FencedXàtiva and Tuéjar. From ideas to classrooms. In An interview recent with The countryRubio acknowledges that he still works ahead to reach the ambitious project to which the OPEM aspires. The objective, of course, is clear: open in the region of Ademuz corner A school focused on shepherds with facilities, professionals, sheep and land. Much of that already have it. To shape it, however, a budget of 600,000 euros. As for how OPEM would work, the OPEM manager is in favor of a mixed model, with public financing and private management that even allows him to take him to the Balearic Islands. “There is potential”. “There is interest and there is even structure. And we are seeing that it is profitable. But it is an even more complicated sector than that of agriculture because tradition was lost a little earlier,” Comment to The avant -garde Ruth Carbonell, project technician in OPEM. In its favor the collective has the strategic value of grazing, especially in the rural one, where it helps to set population and keeps the fields clean to prevent forest fires. “We trust that there is a potential of people who would and would fill in a hole that is not being covered,” emphasize Rubio on the project. A not so new idea. Although Opem’s idea has generated expectation In the Valencian Community, the truth is that it would not be the first grazing school in Spain. Moreover, they recognize that they are being set in other institutions distributed by the country, such as The Estivein Huesca. In the Valencian Community they have offered courses On grazing and livestock. “We are seeing how Aragon models work and Cataloniawhich are semi -public. In Andalusia there are school of shepherds, but it is public “, Rubio points out. “And then there are private models such as the Basque or Extremadura, where an NGO is responsible and does not receive money from the administration, but a return from who enrolls.” Images | Manel (Flickr) and Gutifoll (Flickr) In Xataka | During the gold fever, California needed sheep. The most unexpected ranshening came to the rescue: the Basques

Every week, millions of flies are released on the Valencia Community and, although it does not seem like it, it is a sensational idea

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The Valencia war against the Mediterranean fruit fly dates back more than thirty years and is A constant reminder That going to war against an insect is never easy. It is not a reminder that is needed, the truth. Hundreds of regions around the world fight their particular conflicts with All kinds of insects, fungi or bacteria. If Valencia is important, it is something else. For a factory in caudete of the sources. An army of flies. Since at least 2017, the one we know today as Valencian Center for Genetic Fight It has been releasing hundreds of millions of flies weekly to combat pests. The technique is not new, but in this Valencian municipality they have led it to its maximum expression. Not for nothing is the largest bioplant in Europe and the second largest in the world: a reference in what is called “sterile insect technique”. Sterile insect? Yes, it is “a method of biological pest control that is based on raising males of the same species to fight that they are sterilized by irradiation.” These sterile males They are released to the fieldwhere they compete with wild males due to mating with females, “reducing plague levels by not giving rise to offspring.” Is a solution that “has been used in agriculture of multiple countries and in various flies and beetles. In addition, it is studied to fight against mosquitoes, in particular the Aedes“vectors of diseases such as dengue and chikungunya.” And is it viable? According to the Valencian example, it seems that. Although the regional government Spend about eight million Of euros a year, it has become a key piece in the defense of a sector that moves more than 10,000 million only in the region. As explained in the country: “In recent years there has been a very pronounced decrease in hectares of citrus treated with chemicals through aerial media (from about 330,000 at the beginning of the 21st century to just a few thousands of hectares today).” That is, it is a relatively cheap and quite effective project that also allows Very specific interventions And safe: “Since sterile males generally only appear with females of their own species, little effect on ecosystems is expected, unlike insecticides, which are toxic to many different species.” An increasingly present future. A few years ago, Manuel F. HerradorProfessor of the UDC Civil Engineering School, he said that in the future, they will be horrified how much of our way of building was summed up in two words: brute force. Something like this will happen when technology historians look at how we cultivate during the 20th century. Now, little by little, we are recovering (and creating) other ways to intervene in the nature much more intelligent, powerful and effective. Font caudete is just the beginning. Image | AlvesGaspar | THAT In Xataka | These mosquitoes are genetically modified to resist the four dengue virus serotypes and avoid their propagation

Valencia promised them happy with his new law to regulate tourist floors. Until “the 11 -day trap” arrived “

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Made the law, made the trap. In His attempt To tackle the proliferation of tourist floors, the Valencian Community has encountered an unexpected (not so) challenge: the picaresque of the homemade, who have found in The new law that regulates the sector a loophole that allows them to rent floors to tourists by receiving more lax standards. The key is in something in principle as innocent as the duration of the rooms. To be more precise in themselves last more or less than 10 days. There are those who already talk about “The 11 -day trap”. What happened? The news I advanced it A few weeks ago the newspaper Levante-EMV: Airbnb have begun to announce apart from Valencia with a common denominator, the minimum time of stay required to their tenants. It doesn’t matter in which street they are located, how they are decorated, their surface, whether or not they have seen the sea or if they are more or less expensive. In all the same is repeated and invariable condition: minimum stay of 11 nights. Not one less. Are they many homes? A few. At the end of February Levante-EMV He pointed out that only in Airbnb could be consulted “tens” of housing located in residential blocks of Valencia (sometimes located in thirds or fourth plants) that were offered under that condition: a minimum stay of 11 days. A quick search on the same platform shows that ads are still like this. Moreover, there are businesses that They have decided Start applying the same criteria. And why 11 days? To understand it you have to use Valencian legislation. To be more precise of Decree Law 9/2024a text approved in August and that updated the 2018 standard on vacation rentals. Your goal, like He moved in 2024 The Valencian government is “to improve the regulation” of tourist floors and “offer legal certainty” to users and homemade. The key is what is a ‘tourist floor’ for the new regulations. Where the temporary barrier comes into play. When modifying article 65, the document Clarify That the “housing for tourist use” are those that (among other conditions) “are given in conditions of immediate availability, for tourist purposes, for a time less than or equal to 10 days, computed continuously to the same tenant.” What does that mean? That vacation homes are associated with that temporal horizon: 10 days. Anyone who is rented for longer would remain out of that categorywhich requires also having a tourist license. In practice it is a legal route that allows homemade to announce their homes on platforms such as Airbnb as something else: Seasonal rentals. According to the urban lease law (Lau) The latter are the rentals that are not destined to cover “the permanent need for housing of the lessee.” The Moncloa already It has been proposed Work in their regulation to prevent them from being used to dodge the requirements that apply to conventional rentals and benefit people for whom they are really intended, such as students. Why is it important? Because one of the objectives of the regulatory change applied in August 2024 in the Valencian Community was precisely to stop the increase in tourist homes, a rental modality that has gone winning strength in Spain and Tense (even more) the market residential. It was recognized by the regional government itself by arguing what it was looking for with the new regulations, in addition to “stopping unfair competition” or giving greater “transparency” to the sector. “The proliferation of this modality (…) has meant its exponential and uncontrolled increase in certain areas, which determines the need to adopt urgent measures to stop a phenomenon that, if not acting immediately, can generate problems that are exponentially aggravated,” reasoned In 2024 the Generalitat Valenciana. There are experts who They already question that the new law has been right when specifying what a home for tourist use is. Have you had consequences? Yes. Or at least reactions. After The news of Levant The Federation of Neighborhood Associations of Valencia (FAAVV) has demanded that the Generalitat regulations be changed as soon as possible He has jumped Already to the Valencian political debate. “Instead of proposing clear limits to the activity and assuming the responsibility of inspecting and sanctioning create endless ambiguous and contradictory assumptions,” laments the FAAVV. “The norm must be changed because it does not help to contain the threat of tourist floors against residential rental and create legal confusion and insecurity.” And what does the government say? The Ministry of Tourism has already warned that the fact that a rent is not considered tourist does not mean that it should not comply with certain standards, such as the deposit of a bond, and that in those cases in which a fraud is appreciated those responsible are exposed to sanctions that can reach 10,000 or even 100,000 euros, depending on the characteristics of the case. However, they are open to make certain adjustments in the standard. “The law was approved in August. Now that it has been working for a while we will review everything, see if there is any type of dysfunction and act,” Recognize The regional government, which also ensures that the vision of this temporal framework (the 10 -day stays) varies from one locality to another. A few weeks ago, the Generalitat discharged 886 homes of the Tourism Registry for lacking NIF/NIE, And he warned: It is the first phase of a process that will end up affecting 34,000 homes. Images | Giuseppe Bucola (Unsplash) In Xataka | If the question is whether tourist floors take the price of rentals, we already have the answer: more than 30%

Tomtom has studied cities with the worst traffic jams and in Spain there is a surprising own name: Valencia

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In many cities, life is what happens between Atasco and traffic jam. It is an evil with which you have to live in the big cities: a great offer, but also a high car mobility that generates those jams. And the big problem is not that traffic jams stole time, but They take money from us. How long do we lose the Spaniards in traffic jams and what are the most angry cities? The annual ranking elaborated By Tomtom he has the answer and Barcelona does not surprise anyone as the most stuck city in Spain. What is a surprise Optra City of the Mediterranean: Valencia. The analysis. First of all, it must be said that Tomtom, one of GPS navigation specialists, has published his ranking for almost 15 years. In it, we can see worldwide circulation data that includes 500 cities of six continents and more than 737,000 million kilometers traveled by cars are taken into account. Important: the data They correspond to the paths in 2024 of the cars that incorporate their GPS technology in one way or another, so, although it is representative due to the popularity of the brand, the minutes may vary with respect to other analysis. That said, the ranking of Spanish cities with more jams is as follows: Time Lost in Transcos per year Average time to make 10 km Barcelona 87 hours 31 ‘, 13’ ‘ Madrid 64 hours 24 ‘, 44’ ‘ Valencia 62 hours 26 ‘, 18’ ‘ Valladolid 54 hours 20 ‘, 5’ ‘ Seville 54 hours 21 ‘, 46’ ‘ Palma de Mallorca 49 hours 17 ‘, 5’ ‘ Malaga 45 hours 20 ‘, 7’ ‘ Las Palmas 44 hours 18 ‘, 50’ ‘ Vitoria-Gasteiz 44 hours 22 ‘, 54’ ‘ Murcia 43 hours 17 ‘, 16’ ‘ Grenade 43 hours 17 ‘, 49’ ‘ Santa Cruz de Tenerife 42 hours 17 ‘, 5’ ‘ La Coruña 40 hours 19 ‘, 26’ ‘ Pamplona 40 hours 21 ‘, 52’ ‘ Saragossa 37 hours 21 ‘, 5’ ‘ Alicante 37 hours 20 ‘, 16’ ‘ Vigo 37 hours 20 ‘, 53’ ‘ Gijón 36 hours 21 ‘, 53’ ‘ Cartagena 35 hours 19 ‘, 45’ ‘ Santander 35 hours 18 ‘, 44’ ‘ Oviedo 33 hours 16 ‘, 42’ ‘ San Sebastián 28 hours 16 ‘, 10’ ‘ Cordova 27 hours 16 ‘, 54’ ‘ Cádiz 26 hours 17 ‘, 13’ ‘ Bilbao 24 hours 16 ‘, 48’ ‘ Top 3. Something interesting is that, above and we take the indicator we take as a reference, the photo does not change too much. That is, if we apply the medium time filter through a 10 -kilometer route, Barcelona, ​​Valencia and Madrid are the first three, in that order. If we apply the lost hours every year, the thing changes a bit with Barcelona first and, far from the Catalan city, Madrid and Valencia, much more couples among them. vs 2023. There are other indices that we can play with, such as the level of congestion (being, again, Barcelona that rises with first position) and the one that can be more interesting: the change in second time by traveling 10 kilometers between 2023 and 2024. Many cities go that time (30 seconds less in Zaragoza or Valladolid, 10 seconds in Murcia, Granada, Málaga or Madrid), but in others, that time increases. The palm is taken by Barcelona (50 more seconds in the average compared to 2023) and Valencia (40 seconds). In this sense, we might think that Dana I could have a role in statistics. More affected the surrounding areas and municipalities, but also In important roads and Valencian ringings, such as the V-30 surrounding the capital. Kilometers of withholdings were generated that could have negatively affected this ranking and we will have to wait for the 2025 version to see if the times are consolidated or, as we comment, they are the result of an unfortunate event. Not far from neighbors. Ok, but … what happens to the rest of Europe? Well, everything depends on the indicator we take. According to Tomtom, Dublin data with 155 hours, Bucharest with 150 and Brussels with 118 hours are the ones that make their drivers losing the longest. If we apply the average time in traveling 10 kilometers, the thing changes. London is the one that takes the palm with 33 minutes and 17 seconds, Dublin the second with 32 minutes and 45 seconds and Barcelona the third with 31 minutes and 13 seconds on average. Urban tolls. As we say, we must bear in mind that these are data obtained based on the time of devices and Tomtom software, so the photo can vary a bit if other indicators are taken into account. And the big question is … Is there a solution to the traffic jams in the big cities? There are those who think they have the answer. New York was in 2023 a hell, but in two weeks and applying an urban toll for driving through the center, The situation changed radically. With tolls of almost 14 euros for driving, the effects soon made note. According to the City Councilthe average travel in the area affected by the toll were made to an average about 11.4 km/h. They ensure, however, that the speed in the entrance bridges to the city have increased between 30 and 40%. In London this measure It was also applied A while ago, reducing rolled traffic in 30% In some areas, but as demonstrated by Tomtom, the British city remains a monster colossal dominated by traffic. We will see how the photo of the Spanish cities is in 2025 and, above all, what happens to cases such as Barcelona and the Valencian, which is the one that really surprises in the Tomtom table. And, beyond Tomtom’s numbers, as a curiosity for interactive map lovers, the DGT has one in which, in real time, we can see the Status of Spanish Roads. Image | … Read more

The Dana left 800,000 tons of waste and mud in Valencia. Now they will reuse for raw material

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The Dana that hit the Valencian Community on October 29, 2024 caused great shock throughout the country, leaving more than 200 fatal victims. In almost five months, I They have generated More than 800,000 tons of waste mixed with mud, a huge figure, since the Valencian Community usually produces an annual average of 180,000 tons. And what are they going to do? In recent months we have seen with much of the national population has turned with the reconstruction and aid in the streets of the Valencian municipalities. However, given the data on the waste, the Ministry of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory He has decided to reuse The land mixed with flood waste for various works in landfills, quarries, agriculture and construction. Reuse. One of the points enabled to carry out this work is in one of the most affected areas of the catastrophe, Catarroja. The project consists of a machine that will make a screening between earth and waste, and then analyze them and make sure they are free of pollutants. Once treated, the Earth can be reused in different spaces. However, it is not there, because it is diversifying in other types of waste, such as tires, butane, scrap and mattresses, for its specific treatment. Reuse in agriculture. The floods caused by the overflow of rivers and ravines dragged large amounts of mud, debris and waste that affected both crops and soil quality. La Ribera Alta and the area of ​​L’Abufera, Key areas for agricultureThey saw how their rice crops, citrus and vegetables were destroyed. For this reason, working on the recovery of the affected soils trying to the sludge and the polluting sediments. However, mud samples taken in the area of ​​the Natural Park of L’Albufera are currently low, but concern persists on long -term effects. Other points to manage waste. The Ministry of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory has created Local collection points in which to accumulate the remains of the municipalities. Transfer points have also been enabled where to make a first crushing treatment, separation of metals and mattresses, located in Quart-Manises, Picasent, Catarroja and Alfafar. Waste energy management. While the Valencian Ministry has promoted this type of solutions, also It is exploring The possibility of incinerating some of this waste. In fact, incineration, as if it were a thermal power plant, allows transforming the heat generated into electricity. In fact, several experts They have defended That incineration reduces the percentage of rejection and, in addition, put as an example that burned waste produces ashes that are useful to develop, among other things, cement. In addition, Spain has advanced Significantly in the use of the biomethane, a clean energy source that can be generated from organic waste and landfills. The use of biomethane could complement the efforts of the Ministry of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory, by providing a sustainable energy solution and reducing the environmental impact of the waste generated by the DANA. Forecasts While the terrain is still being cleaned, one of the areas most affected by waste dragged by the Dana has been the Albufera of Valencia and its beaches. In them, more than 60,000 kilograms of garbage have been removed, including up to 36 varieties of different waste, such as tires, bumpers, butane, furniture and plastics. As cleaning and recovery efforts continue, more additional measures will have to be implemented to address waste dragged by future floods or natural catastrophes. Image | GVA Xataka | We have been thinking that the recycling of plastics worth something. Maybe we were wrong

Valencia faces a serious problem with housing. So someone has had an idea: build more height

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Tecnocasa recently published A report in which the thermometer to the Spanish real estate market, a theoretical exercise that allowed him to obtain two revealing data: in just one year the demand for housing has grown up on average 39% In Spain while the offer undertook the opposite road, retreating more than 9%. The result is a tensioning market, in which the floors last a few weeks or days (even hours) announced in real estate agencies before finding tenant or buyer. In Valencia, an idea has emerged to alleviate that problem and reinforce its public housing offer: allow buildings to gain height, a formula with which they calculate that the city could win More than 70,000 floors protected What happened? That in Valencia has been on the table An idea New to reinforce your housing park. At least the protected housing. A few days ago the Socialists proposed in the City Council of the City Council to retouch the local ordination (PGOU) so that the city buildings grow to the top. Literally. His idea is that the blocks can raise one or two plants their height. The plan He advanced it The country Wednesday, before the commission; But from the PSPV they recognize that he did not obtain the necessary support, so at least for the moment he will stay in that, an idea about the table to face the housing problem. “The PP has rejected our proposal”, Explain The socialist mayor Elisa was worth. Click on the image to go to Tweet. What have they raised? “Raise buildings to gain public housing”, summarize The PSPV of Valencia. The idea is simple: modify the PGOU to upload the city blocks one or two levels. The socialist group has already made accounts and calculates that if an extra plant was added to all buildings, 86,644 homes would leave, a large residential park also distributed throughout the municipality. As part of these constructions are protected by their heritage value or are located in Valencia neighborhoods in which height cannot be gained, the PSPV has retouched that initial figure, but the result remains considerable. “If we subtract 20% for understanding that in the historical centers and protected buildings you will not be able Explain Valía to The country. That (more than 70,000 new floors) is the figure that PSPV presumed this week in networks, where he claimed that his proposal “would avoid expulsion and uprooting.” Why such a measure? The PSPV plan is focused on the creation of protected housing (both for rent and sale) in a territory that dealt with the offer shortage and the price increase. In January the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) published A report that helps to understand much better The situation From the capital of Turia: in five years the prices of the new work have triggered about 80% and the offer was reduced by 83%. Things have not been better in the rental market, which became more expensive. “What we have before us is a tsunami of epic dimensions and all administrations must act in a coordinated, effective and quickly, The director explains of the Chair of the UPV Housing Observatory after remembering the forecasts at the state level. “We estimate that more than 80% of the current demand fits in the public protection house, so the determined commitment to the construction of this type of housing is strategic.” And how do you want to do it? The PSPV proposal is not entirely new and there are other cities in which they have already been activated similar solutionstaking advantage of the ‘Flight Law’. In Valencia the idea is that it is the communities of owners themselves that can promote the ‘stretch’ up the buildings with one or two extra plants. The resulting floors would be added to the Public Protection Housing Park, which among other things would allow it to extend it to “consolidated neighborhoods”, Valía points out. The PSPV plan also includes an extra advantage for neighbors communities. In a city with an aged real estate park, in which A notable percentage From the houses it has more than four decades, the communities of neighbors would obtain from the extra buildability some resources that would allow them to modernize their blocks. Are there more cases? Yes, Valencia is not the only one that has been fixed in that formula. In Barcelona, ​​licenses have been granted to lift floors that increased the buildability of existing buildings. In 2017 it was estimated that in just three years they had benefited from that possibility (the traces) about thirty buildingswith licenses for 120 floors. Madrid too It has varied Over the years the maximum height of its buildings and the Balearic Islands leave another recent example. Palma already added in September 70 requests of buildings to grow in height and add 589 floors of limited price. Images | Jonny James (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | The price of housing in Spain is already higher than in the bubble peak. But the data has a small trick

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