PITA - Parque tecnológico Almería

According to the Association of Science and Technology Parks of Spain (APTE), a technology park is a project, generally associated with a physical space, with the following characteristics:

• Formal and operational dealings with universities, research centres and higher education institutions.
  
• Designed to encourage the creation and growth of knowledge-based companies and other organisations belonging to the service sector which also possess high added value and are normally established in the park itself.
  
• A stable managing body that promotes the transfer of technology and fosters innovation among the companies and organisations using the park.

 

PITA Objectives

• Promote R+D+i among activities related to intensive agriculture.
• Contribute to its competitiveness and consolidation.
• Boost innovation in cutting-edge agricultural technology development.
• Encourage the diversification of the provincial economy.
• Achieve environmental excellence of productive areas, companies and organisations.
• Secure scientific and business sector integration..

The PITA Technology Park is most notably distinguished for its quality, spaciousness of facilities, low building density, and carefully controlled internal urbanisation guidelines.


Commitment to the environment: building designs that avoid unnecessary use of land, infrastructures that minimize consumption of natural resources but, at the same time, maximize usage of renewable energies, large protected land areas, and proper waste management.

Development designed to adapt to land type and provide the Park with the finest infrastructures; these include natural gas, purified water for irrigation, a telecommunications network comprised of three independent fibre optic networks (two for telecommunications operators and the last for internal management) and an advanced security system with IP cameras connected to a control centre located in the Main Building at PITA.