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Referring back to the work of its founder, Engineer Ricardo Esquível Teixeira Duarte, Teixeira Duarte has broadened its activities from water collection and drilling, to Geotechnics and Foundations, to Buildings and, later, to Infrastructures and all other areas of Construction, including, a few decades later, the Concessions and Services, Real Estate, Hospitality, Distribution and Automotive sectors.

Today, after 100 years, the group of more than 180 companies that constitute one of the main Portuguese Economic Groups, ensures an activity in more than 20 countries, in four continents, by the commitment and dedication of 9,000 employees.

A journey based on Ingenuity, Truth and Commitment, which makes us proud, which teaches us and inspires us to continue to “Execute, contributing towards the construction of a better world”!

Last December 15th, Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construções, S.A. signed the contract for the execution, in consortium with the companies Dredging International NV and Tecnovia, S.A., of the Contract for the Exterior Breakwater Extension and Maritime Accessibility of the Port of Leixões, for the Administration of Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo Ports (APDL).

Teixeira Duarte will be the leading company in the consortium with a 40% stake.

The work, which will allow the Port of Leixões to receive more than 70% of the world’s fleet of ships and continue to serve the hinterland, which covers 14 million inhabitants, has a 30-month execution period and was awarded for 130.2 million Euros.

The contract basically integrates three fronts of action:

• Exterior Breakwater Extension, in an extension of 300 m, composed of a conventional structural solution of the breakwater of slopes, composed of core and rockfill filters and protection blankets of antifer concrete blocks;
• Marine Accessibilities, contemplating the deepening of the access channel and the rotation basin by dredging of incoherent and rocky material, besides the partial demolition of the North Breakwater in an extension of 80 m and the reconditioning of its forehead in a receding position;
• Repair of the Technical Gutter, between the rooting of the Outer Breakwater and the A Station, an organ dedicated to the passage of pipes of the Leixões Oil Terminal (TPL).

According to APDL, the average size of the ships seeking the Port of Leixões has been growing – an increase of 77% between 2006 and 2018 – and it is essential to ensure the safety and navigability of these vessels.

This December, the “OMICRON” project was approved, with the aim to develop innovative solutions for the maintenance and regeneration of road infrastructures, using more automated and optimized solutions using robotized technologies and intelligent decision support tools.

“OMICRON” is a European project funded by Horizon 2020, lasting 42 months, in which Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construções participates with 15 other partners from 7 European countries. Teixeira Duarte is in charge of coordinating the main demonstrator of the project that intends to develop modular solutions for the realization of overpasses on freeways (for situations of widening, new passages and replacement of existing ones), in a fast, safe and sustainable way. The Portuguese team also includes the company Armando Rito and BRISA, which will participate as an interested party, providing access, signage and security during testes to be performed on the demonstrator. The funding allocated is 100% non-refundable, having been allocated to Teixeira Duarte EUR 268,500.00.