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A team from Teixeira Duarte visited, on January 16th, the CIMPOR Museum at the Alhandra Production Center, the first cement factory to be built from scratch in Portugal (1894). The initiative took place as part of the execution of the civil works contract that Teixeira Duarte is carrying out to upgrade the Line 7 Furnace of this facility.

This CIMPOR investment project is part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) and aims to implement a series of improvements that will allow the decarbonization of more than 190 thousand tons of CO2 per year, by the end of 2025. This initiative reinforces CIMPOR’s commitment to reduce CO2 emissions by around 37% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.

The CIMPOR Museum, opened in 2011, testifies to the historical, industrial and heritage significance of the former «Tejo» Cement Factory, founded by António Teófilo Araújo Rato. The Museum is divided into two sections: the old Hoffmann furnace building (1894) and the old laboratory (1932). Along the museum route, an old pulp mill also stands out.

The CIMPOR Museum can be visited by prior appointment.

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.