The monthly meeting of the Board of Directors (CA) of Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construções, S.A. was held in July at the Colombo construction site, allowing CA members to see first-hand the progress of one of the most challenging projects the Company is currently undertaking, which is considered a case study in national engineering.
The project aims to build a new car park between the Colombo and Hospital da Luz buildings – both fully operational – as well as a new nine-storey office building, which, although built on top of an existing building, is completely independent from it. In fact, it was this independence that led to the design of the construction system, which resembles that of a bridge and allows the new building, with a floor area of 5,000 m2, to have only 12 vertical elements, with spans of around 50 m, a very unique feature for an office building.
The ingenuity involved in executing this project is an example of Teixeira Duarte’s technical capabilities and a source of pride for the professionals involved, who, working in various departments, came together and made it possible to carry out such technically demanding work.
It was very rewarding for the members of the Board of Directors to visit this project and witness how the teams lead processes with this level of complexity and responsibility, responding to customer objectives and contributing to the success of their projects.
