The INTEMAC Notebooks

Abstract

Since it’s foundation in June 1967 the Technical Institute for Materials and Construction (INTEMAC) established the incentivation of technical training and the researching vocation of it’s staff as it’s goals. For the past eighteen years INTEMAC’s quarterlies have represented the shaping of this spirit, for what the Institute has become well known in the building business. Covering more and more topics every year, the sixty-six titles which have been published until now have all been dedicated to a big variety of issues such as the pre-standardization, the creation of guides of practical application on specific subjects, pathology or the building works of a certain importance inside the national panorama. Trying to maintain, altogether, a certain balance between edification issues, civil construction and rehabilitation of already existing buildings.
The publication of INTEMAC’s quarterly has never stopped, with a three-month periodicity, programmed with a lot of anticipation, and a bilingual edition in Spanish and English, which is around 2500 copies nowadays. The following text tries to be a mirror of the evolution of this publication throughout time, with a few comments which will help the reader guess what we expect from the future days.