Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construções, S.A. (TD-EC) obtained certification by the international standard ISO 27001:2022 for its Information Security Management System, being the first entity in the national Top5 of construction companies to achieve the aforementioned certification.
This certified Management System represents an important milestone for the future of Teixeira Duarte, as it attests to the compliance of the Company’s practices with the highest international standards and with a strong and demanding regulatory framework regarding Information Security, Cybersecurity and Data Protection, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and continuous availability of information and support assets of Teixeira Duarte, customers, partners and employees.
The Teixeira Duarte Group promoted, on November 8th, an event that brought together more than 320 employees from the Group’s companies in the Construction sector in Portugal, namely Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construção, SOMAFEL and EPOS.
Under the motto “We Change Together”, the program included the sharing of relevant content about the companies’ activities and some case studies, in addition to a lecture by Prof. Jorge Sequeira, who brought to reflection several principles about team management and leadership.
The next edition of “Team Day” is scheduled for June 2025.
Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construções was awarded one of the Construir 2024 Awards, namely for carrying out the rehabilitation and seismic reinforcement contract for the Duarte Pacheco viaduct, in Lisbon. The trophy awarded to the Company in the Construction – Public Project category results from a vote carried out by the readers of the CONSTRUIR newspaper, in an initiative by this entity that aims to give visibility and recognize the best projects and companies in the AEC sector in Portugal. Also within the scope of the Duarte Pacheco viaduct contract, A2P was awarded in the Engineering – Public Project category.
The winners of this edition of the Construir Awards were announced on October 15th, at a ceremony in Lisbon that brought together more than 300 professionals in the field.
In addition to thanking everyone who voted for this public project as one of the best today, Teixeira Duarte thanks the Project Owner, Infraestruturas de Portugal, for the privilege of being able to collaborate in this clearly important undertaking, as well as all stakeholders who contributed to its achievement.
Infraestruturas de Portugal, S.A. awarded the Concession contract for the High Speed Railway Line between Porto (Campanhã) and Oiã to the Consortium of companies that Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construções is part of with a 19% stake. This is the 1st of three phases of the new Porto – Lisbon connection.
The contract in question aims to grant the aforementioned line for 30 years, with two phases: 1) development, lasting 5 years, for conception, design, construction and financing of the infrastructure; 2) availability, with 25 years, for maintenance and availability of assets.
The works included in the contract include the construction of 71 km of railway line, with a double track of 1668 mm gauge for passengers and a maximum speed of 300 km/h, the construction of a road-rail bridge over the Douro, connections to the Northern Line, in Canelas, 17 km long, the adaptation of the Campanhã Station, a new underground station in Santo Ovídio, Vila Nova de Gaia, and an electrical traction substation in Estarreja.
The participation of Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construções in the awarded Consortium is equivalent to a turnover of approximately 440 million Euros, with the contribution of other companies in the Group being expected, namely EPOS and SOMAFEL in the development phase and, in the maintenance, from SOMAFEL and TDGI.
Being a structuring work for Portugal, it will bring a lot of value to the Construction sector of the Teixeira Duarte Group from an operational and reputational point of view, contributing to the dynamism of its activity over the next few years, whether through the development of teams and training of people, or the capacity to invest in equipment.
In addition to Teixeira Duarte, the LusoLav Consortium is made up of Mota-Engil, as leader, Casais – Engenharia e Construção, Alves Ribeiro, Conduril – Engenharia and Construções Gabriel A.S. Couto.
The presentation made at the award ceremony held yesterday, October 10th, can be consulted here.
The official session to establish the Construction Foundation took place on July 25th, in a ceremony that took place at the Técnico Innovation Center, in Lisbon, and which was attended by the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Eng. º Miguel Pinto Luz.
The Construction Foundation brings together the Order of Engineers, the Order of Architects, the Order of Economists and 14 leading companies in the construction and project sector in Portugal, including Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construções, represented at this event, by Engineer Gustavo Lebreiro, Member of its Board of Directors.
The initiative, unprecedented in bringing together the public, private sector and associations, aims to bring together and coordinate efforts between the main entities in the AEC sector, namely through their contribution to collective knowledge of the country’s real needs in this activity, in areas such as the design of its infrastructures and buildings, taking into account sustainable economic development and the defense of national interests and autonomy.
In his speech, the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing expressed that “it is very good when a group unites around a goal like this, even better when that goal is to create knowledge, to better serve our fellow citizens. We are absolutely aligned in this plan. I immediately said “yes, present”. On behalf of the Government, you are counting on us in this challenge of ours, and I am counting on you in this healthy, disruptive provocation to question decisions. We are deeply grateful for this initiative, we look forward to seeing these studies and the healthy provocations they have to offer us, and for them to help us on this path. Hand in hand, we are stronger. We need to strengthen this sector even further, to find new directions and build Portugal.”
Note also the perspective brought by Engineer Fernando de Almeida Santos, Chairman of the Order of Engineers in his speech, in which he highlighted that «Portugal has a lot to gain from some safeguarding of the national interest in business matters. Almost 50% of public works have been awarded to foreign companies in recent years, which is legitimate, but the opposite is not true. We have installed capacity, and there is no public contracting of Portuguese companies abroad.».
To read more about this subject, see the news published on the (RE)Portugal website.
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