PROYECTOS Y CONSTRUCCIONES PIRINEO

Their core work

PROYECTOS Y CONSTRUCCIONES PIRINEO is a small Spanish engineering and construction firm based in Sabiñanigo, in the Pyrenees foothills of Aragon — an industrial area with a long history of water contamination challenges from past chemical industry activity. The company developed the ANAERGY technology: a sequential, multi-stage approach to wastewater treatment that progressed from feasibility study to full product development within the H2020 SME Instrument programme. Their work sits at the intersection of civil/industrial engineering and environmental remediation, bringing practical construction and systems integration know-how to wastewater infrastructure. The successful step from SME Phase 1 to Phase 2 indicates they validated technical and commercial viability before scaling development.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

PROYCON's H2020 participation covers a single, tightly scoped technology track: the ANAERGY wastewater treatment process. There is no observable shift in thematic focus — both projects address the same core problem, with the 2019 Phase 2 project representing a deeper technical and commercial development of the 2018 feasibility work. The absence of keywords across both projects makes finer-grained trend analysis impossible. What can be said is that by 2021 they had completed a full funded development cycle, which positions them as a company with a finished (or near-finished) product rather than an ongoing research programme.

PROYCON appears to have completed their core R&D arc with ANAERGY; a future collaborator would most likely find a company seeking deployment partners, pilot sites, or integration into larger water infrastructure projects rather than fundamental research.

How they like to work

PROYCON has never led a project — both participations are as a partner, consistent with an SME that originated a technology idea and entered the SME Instrument as the applicant while relying on a single external partner for consortium requirements. Their network is strikingly narrow: one unique partner across two projects, all within Spain. This suggests they work best in tight, bilateral arrangements built on an existing relationship rather than in large multi-country consortia.

PROYCON has collaborated with just one partner organisation across both projects, and exclusively within Spain. Their consortium footprint is among the smallest possible, reflecting the solo-innovator nature of the SME Instrument pathway.

What sets them apart

PROYCON's differentiator is that they completed the full SME Instrument validation cycle for a specific wastewater treatment technology — from funded feasibility through to development — which is something most engineering SMEs never do. They bring not just construction and engineering execution capacity but a proprietary treatment process (ANAERGY) that could be licensed, deployed, or co-developed. For a consortium needing a practitioner with proven EU-grant experience and an actual product in the water treatment space, they offer more than a generic construction subcontractor.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ANAERGY
  The Phase 2 SME Instrument project (2019–2021) is notable as the culmination of the company's full R&D investment cycle, receiving EUR 248,850 to develop an advanced multi-stage sequential wastewater treatment system from validated concept to market-ready technology.
• Anaergy
  The Phase 1 feasibility project (2018) is significant because successfully completing it unlocked the larger Phase 2 award — demonstrating that PROYCON's technology concept passed independent EU evaluation for technical and commercial merit.