Cristina Marchante García, a Construction Engineering graduate, received an award for her Undergraduate Dissertation titled: `Títulos habilitantes de naturaleza urbanística: Declaración Responsable en la Región de Murcia´, which studies the documents and process to be followed for refurbishment work. The work was supervised by Fulgencio Avilés Inglés, teacher of the Higher Polytechnic School.

Arturo Martínez de Maya, who holds a Master's Degree in Pathology and Intervention in Building, received the award to best Master’s Thesis for the work titled: `Manual de intervención sobre las lesiones más comunes en los inmuebles no protegidos del casco histórico de Cehegín: Identificación y propuestas de actuación. Caso práctico de vivienda unifamiliar tipo´, with the supervision of Pedro Antonio Díaz Guirado, teacher of the Higher Polytechnic School. In his work, he developed a model of housing that allows to define energy improvements, to establish a budget and to quantify the repercussion and the economic benefit, providing tangible and actual data that help those who want to carry out a remodelling or rehabilitation.

Antonio Mármol Ortuño, president of the Official Association of Building Engineers, Technical Architects and Construction Engineers of the Region of Murcia gave the awards, whose aim is to disseminate the important research work that is carried out in universities and to give visibility to it. Juan Roldán, director of the Bachelor’s Degrees in Architecture and Construction Engineering of EPS-UCAM states that “It is important that the effort of our students is recognised by professional institutions such as COAATIEMU, in this case, to which we are grateful for the close collaboration we have in different tasks involving the teaching and professional aspects”.