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Oas
June 2013
OAS participates in the
modernization and expansion of the
São Paulo International Airport
Nº 3 – June 2013
year 1 – 3nd edition
GRU Airport
Fernanda Rodrigues Beatriz,
RESPONSIBLE FOR EHS, MANAGEMENT
EXCELLENCE CENTER
Antonio Carlos Passos,
OPERATIONAL OVERSEER,
SÃO PAULO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, SP
Marcelo Ribeiro,
OPERATIONAL OVERSEER,
ITAIPAVA ARENA FONTE NOVA, BA
Jorge Raimundo Santos de Araújo,
COMMISSIONING MANAGER,
RNEST, PE
These professionals represent
all those who participated in the
third issue of OAS Magazine
Luiz Carlos Guereschi, RESPONSIBLE
FOR EHS, PORTO DO RIO WORKS,
TUNNELS AND MUSEU DO AMANHÃ
Rafael Arregui Lubianca,
CONTRACT MANAGER,
CONAKRY URBAN ROADS
Rômulo Augustus,
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATIVE
RESPONSIBLE, IN GUINEA
Elmar Varjão,
MANAGING DIRECTOR
OAS NORTHEAST
Nilton Lo Bianco, EHS
MANAGER OF THE UDA CONTRACT, pe
José Evandro dos Santos,
PLANNING MANAGER
TIRADENTES MONORAIL, SP
Eli Andrade da Silva,
CONTRACTUAL ADMINISTRATION MANAGER,
SÃO PAULO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, SP
Henrique Camargo,
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER,
RNEST, PE
Nelson José da Graça Rodrigues,
OPERATIONAL OVERSEER,
IN MALABO, EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Arthur Leandro Daltro
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATIVE
RESPONSIBLE, MALABO,
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Eraldo Batista,
OPERATIONAL OVERSEER,
METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT, SP
Dante Fernandes, ADMINISTRATIVE
RESPONSIBLE, INTERNATIONAL
MANAGEMENT, SP
Paulo Henrique Mello Gonçalves Costa,
EHS RESPONSIBLE, TRANSCARIOCA
CONSORTIUM, RIO
Claudio Peixoto dos Santos,
CONTRACT MANAGER,
CANAL DO SERTÃO, AL
Carlos Gleidson da Silva Sampaio,
CONTRACT MANAGER,
ARCO DO RIO CONSORTIUM, RJ
The beauty and grandiosity of
the Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova
changed the landscape of the
Bahia capital. The magnitude of
the building was achieved with
the latest technologies, placing
Bahia in the raking of cities with
exemplary architectonic works.
dario dias de souza filho,
ELECTRICAL TECHNICIAN II, RNEST, PE
Technical form
Eduardo Soares Borges,
CONTRACT MANAGER, RNEST, PE
Works: Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova
Venue: Salvador – Bahia State
Covered seats: 50 thousand
Will host: Confederations Cup & World Cup
Executed by: OAS & Odebrecht
Brunno da Silva Pitta Lopes,
CONTRACT MANAGER,
RIOS DA BAIXADA II CONSORTIUM, RJ
michel rey
Antônio Carlos Nascimento,
CONTRACT MANAGER,
TIRADENTES MONORAIL, SP
Works with Art
Rogério Veras,
ENGINEERING OVERSEER,
INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT, sp
PHOTOS BY J Nascimento, leo caldas, Marisa Machado AND OAS
Nilton Vicente Pereira,
CONTRACT MANAGER
VIÁRIO ZONA LESTE, SP
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Dear reader
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n this third issue of OAS Magazine, there are many events to tell and
even more to celebrate. Our cover article presents the challenges and
significant changes that are taking place in the São Paulo International Airport, describing in details all the works being carried out there. The
investments in technological infrastructure and services have made it
unique in Latin America.
Already in the mood of the Confederations Cup and World Cup, Bahia
inaugural the Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova with much partying, goals and
music, just the way the Salvador city likes it. The inauguration of the newest multiuse space on the 7th of April was attended by artists and authorities. Two days before, the president Dilma Rousseff visited the venue and
showered praises on the arena.
The president was also in Alagoas and checked the works of Canal do
Sertão, in which OAS is responsible for Lot 3, which goes from Km 64.7 to
92.93. Read more in page 29.
One of our highlights is the Special Operations article. Not many people know this, but in many OAS worksites we have mountain climbers, divers, explosive experts, among others, who perform risky tasks, 100% in
line with safety.
Maintaining its tradition of pioneering, OAS is one of those responsible for the Tiradentes Monorail, being installed in the east side of São
Paulo, which is the biggest worldwide in passenger locomotion capacity.
It will bring countless benefits to the population. And it is in this same region, in Itaquera, in the works of Consórcio Viário Zona Leste, that a group
of Haitians also found the opportunity to work and improve their lives in
the OAS worksite.
Great ideas also arise from our worksites that improve life in the planet. In Pernambuco, at Rnest (Refinaria Abreu e Lima [Refinery]), a revolutionary sustainable commissioning system saves 80% of the water used,
preserving the liquid. The model is being exported to other countries.
With works in Brazil and abroad, OAS started the year 2013 at full
steam. And for this, it counts on specialized teams, like the female team,
today with an ever increasing presence in different works and positions,
and on people like Luiz Gonzaga Araújo, highlight in Our People section,
does not get tired of traveling.
Enjoy your reading!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova is
inaugurated in grand style
Works benefit the population of
countries in the African continent
HIGHLIGHT
Activities of
risk are carried
out in harmony
with safety
at OAS
INTERNATIONALIZATION
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COVER
São Paulo
International
Airport will
be one of the
most modern
in the world
MASTHEAD
OAS MAGAZINE | JANUARY TO JUNE 2013
AN OAS PUBLICATION FOR INTERNAL AND
EXTERNAL DISSEMINATION
EDITORIAL BOARD
DILSON PAIVA
MANUELLA PINHEIRO GUIMARÃES
MARILY GALLOTE
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SUPERVISION
MARILY GALLOTE
COMMUNICATION MANAGER
MTB: 26 465
CONTENT PRODUCTION
COMUNICAÇÃO+ ASSESSORIA LTDA.
JOURNALIST IN CHARGE
MAURO TEIXEIRA
EDITOR IN CHIEF
ELENITA FOGAÇA
EVENT
Female presence increases
in OAS worksites
COORDINATION
CLAUDIA MENATTO LOPES
MTB: 44 454
SUPPORT
BRUNA PRANDINA
OAS COMMUNICATION TEAM
President Dilma visits works of
Canal do Sertão, in Alagoas
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SECTOR IN
THE SPOTLIGHT
OUR
PEOPLE
OAS Soluções
Ambientais and
SAMAR promote
quality of life
Know the story
of foreman
Luiz Gonzaga
CREATION SUPERVISOR
FILIPE MEGA
EDITING ASSISTANT
BIANCA ROSSONI
COLLABORATORS IN THIS ISSUE
ALCEU CASTILHO, GABRIEL CARVALHO,
GUILHERME CALDERAZZO, IOLANDA
NASCIMENTO, LÚCIO LAMBRANHO, MÁRCIO
MARKMAN, MARTA RÉGIA VIEIRA, NATHALIA
BARBOZA, RONALDO LIMA AND TARCÍSIO
ALVES (TEXTS), AILTON CRUZ, CAMILO TAVARES,
CRISTINA GALLO, DANIEL CRUZ, ESTEVÃO
CAVALHEIRO BUZATO, GILSON CARVALHO, LÉO
AZEVEDO, LEO CALDAS (PHOTOS) AND CACILDA
GUERRA (REVIEW)
EDITORIAL
DOUBTS, SUGGESTIONS OR CRITICISMS CAN BE
SENT TO [email protected]
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Tiradentes Monorail is the biggest
worldwide in transport capacity
Expertise in airport reforms and
constructions dates back decades
TECHNOLOGY
ART AND FINISHING
ARIANA ASSUMPÇÃO
COVER
OAS ARCHIVE
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MARKET
MEMORY
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UPDATES
GOOD NEWS
Rnest creates system
that is an international
example
Subway Lilac
Line has
emblematic
works
Haitians find
opportunities at OAS
Updates
of OAS in
a few lines
SUSTAINABILITY
expertise
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Mateus Pereira/GovBA
LÉO AZEVEDO
HIGHLIGHT
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LÉO AZEVEDO
The investment in the arena’s
construction was R$ 689.4
million, through a Public-Private
Partnership (PPP)
WITH 41,500 PEOPLE ON THE DAY OF THE INAUGURATION, ITAIPAVA ARENA FONTE NOVA WILL HAVE, IN 2014, CAPACITY FOR 55 THOUSAND FANS
Itaipava Arena Fonte
Nova is inaugurated
Multiuse arena in Bahia State will host six World Cup
matches and three Confederations Cup matches
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efore 41,500 people, the Itaipava Arena Fonte
Nova was inaugurated with a great feast on the 7th
of April. Artists like Margareth Menezes, Marcia
Short, Cláudia Leitte, Mariene de Castro, Dan Miranda,
Fábio Lago and Ivete Sangalo took part in the reopening
celebrations of Bahia’s soccer temple, whose first spectacle was the classic match between Bahia and Vitória (BAVI), won by the red and black team by 5 to 1.
The exuberant stadium, which will be the stage of six
By Gabriel Carvalho
matches of the World Cup in 2014 and three of the Confederations Cup this year, was constructed by the OAS/
Odebrecht consortium in two years and seven months,
time considered a record due to the complexity of the
works, and it is one of the most modern in the country,
with facilities and security systems of very high standard.
The matches already defined for these international competitions include those of the group stage of the World
Cup, in addition to the round of 16 and quarterfinals.
While for the Confederations Cup, the matches between
Nigeria and Uruguay, Brazil and Italy and the 3rd place
decision are scheduled.
Initially built with capacity to hold 50 thousand fans in
a fully covered area, the arena will have 5 thousand more
places in temporary seats for both competitions.
Out of the multiuse arenas planned to be fully built,
Fonte Nova was the first in Brazil to start operations. For
this, there was a great endeavor by the OAS and Ode-
brecht team to meet the deadlines, making the works a
success story. The equipment also represents business
increase for OAS Investimentos, since its management
will be under the charge of OAS Arenas for the next 35
years. More than a multiuse arena, the space will promote
a new culture for the population of Bahia.
The project is injecting new life in the region where it
is installed. According to the managing director of OAS
Arena, Carlos Eduardo Paes Barreto, the new equipment
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The works shows the creativity and work of
the people. It is a unique construction.
PHOTOS LÉO AZEVEDO
Dilma Rousseff, president of the Republic
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PRESIDENT DILMA TAKES THE INAUGURAL KICK OF THE FIELD
COLORS, DANCING AND ENTERTAINMENT IN THE ARENA FEAST
FANS VIBRATED WITH THE SHOW OF VARIOUS ARTISTS, LIKE THE DIVA IVETE SANGALO
brings a series of benefits to its surroundings, located
near the Pelourinho [Pillory where slaves were whipped]
and the subway stations, which should enter into operation before the 2014 World Cup. “It is a modern arena,
which will inject new life into this region, since the equipment will not be restricted to soccer games. Here, we will
have events and shows by national and international artists. It is an arena that can hold a Business Center of very
high standard, among other ventures”, he stated.
The fans who frequented the former stadium of Fonte Nova, which was inaugurated in 1951 and had its great
expansion in the 70s, were unanimous in pointing out the
differences in relation to the equipment that was imploded
in 2010 to make way to the Arena. The administrator Daniel
Meira, 31 years old, fan of Vitória soccer team, praised the
facilities. “It gives the impression that I am not even in Brazil. It is a modern, comfortable stadium, with acclimatized
cabins and modern restrooms and seats”, he stated.
While the three-color team fan Wilton Noronha, 65
years old, insisted on enumerating the differences between the former stadium and the new one. “The electronic scoreboard was very old and before we would
remain in the sun and rain when we came to watch the
matches. Today, the bleachers are covered, the snack bars
are much better distributed and there are seats and big
screens”, he summarized.
Players who have played on the field of Fonte Nova
also highlighted the difference. “When it rained, the field
would become heavy and compromise the spectacle”,
stated Beijoca, who was an idol in the Bahia soccer team.
Today, the arena floor has a modern drainage and irrigation system, with 35 sprinklers – equipment that divides
the water stream into droplets and gently wet the ground
– commanded by an automated valve, that can be activated through computers.
The investment in the arena’s construction was R$
689.4 million, through a Public-Private Partnership
(PPP). From the implosion of the former stadium to conclusion of the new arena, there were 32 months of incessant work, performed by over 10 thousand employees,
who erected a modern complex.
eration, in which we had to demolish one stadium to build
another”, said the president of the arena, Frank Alcântara.
According to Elmar Varjão, managing director of OAS
in the Northeast, the arena’s surroundings will win a new
life, as of the equipment’s construction. “The trend is for
a new district to emerge directed toward a public of high
purchasing power”, he said.
All the 50 thousand places will be distributed in three
rings and 10 levels of bleachers. In addition, the
equipment has accessibility elements, with 66
exclusive spaces for wheelchair users, 60 seats
for the obese, 16 for the visually handicapped and 500
for escorts. Over 220 high-definition security cameras are
spread throughout the areas, and there is also an Operations Command Center equipped with state-of-the-art
technology.
Infrastructure
The space comprises 70 cabins, 2.5 thousand parking spaces, 40 food kiosks, 10 elevators, 94 restrooms,
in addition to environments for stores and panoramic
restaurants, with view to Dique do Tororó [Tororó Dike],
traditional postcard of the Bahia capital. “It was a record op-
Construction challenges
Pioneering is one of the hallmarks of this project coordinated by OAS Arenas. The arena is the first in the country
to have a contract that incorporates a brand to its name.
“The one highly favored with baptizing one of the most
modern equipments in the country was Grupo Petrópolis,
which will invest R$ 10 million per annum, for 10 years, to
Pioneering is one of
this project’s hallmarks
sion structure executed in Brazil”, informed Ribeiro.
The roofing has an area of 36 thousand square meters and several professionals from Brazil and also from
Switzerland, France, Germany, United States, China and
Italy took part in its assembly.
Manu Dias/GOVBA
Luck
Under the gaze of almost 50 thousand
people, the biggest world champions entered the field of Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova
to duel for the first place of Group A of the
Confederations Cup. Brazil and Italy had a
balanced confrontation full of rivalry and
thrill, which ended with Brazil’s victory by 4
to 2, maintaining the tradition of luck of areas built by OAS (read about the Brazil and
France match on page 12). The Arena Fonte
Nova was stage not only to the first goal by
Fred in the match, but also to the joy of Dante, who scored a goal for the national soccer
team in his native land. s
Inaugural kick
Two days before the inauguration, on the 5th of April,
the president Dilma Rousseff was in the location and gave
the initial symbolic kick in the field of Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, with the presence of local authorities like the
governor Jaques Wagner, entrepreneurs and executives
of OAS and Odebrecht. On the occasion, Dilma praise the
construction. “The works shows the creativity and work of
the people. It is a unique construction”, said the president
making reference to the quality of the services provided.
The governor Jaques Wagner, in turn, said that Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova is one of the biggest gifts given to
the city of Salvador.
Works of the Arena das Dunas [Dunes Arena] have reached 67% completion
Mateus Pereira/GovBA
OAS ARCHIVE
have the Itaipava beer at the forefront of this bold marketing project”, stresses Paes Barreto. The naming rights
contract gives the right to sell the brand’s products with
exclusiveness in all bars and restaurants of the equipment.
Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova also stands out due to
being the first in the world to receive the International
Quality Certificate ISO 9001, of the Quality Management
System for the Scope of the Multiuse Arena Construction.
In the opinion of the OAS overseer, Marcelo Ribeiro,
the construction works of the arena was surrounded by
challenges, all of which were successfully overcome.
“The main ones were the meeting of the deadline, within Fifa’s requirements; implosion of the former structure,
which was totally compromised, right in the heart of Salvador city, executed without risks to the thousands of
residents in the works’ surroundings. This also resulted
in great challenges to solve the problems of equipment
and material circulation and stock of pre-molded parts.
The Arena’s construction project was the first cable ten-
SPONSOR PLACED THE SENHOR DO BONFIM [OUR LORD OF BONFIM] RIBBON IN THE ENTIRE ARENA
Located in a strategic region of Natal, where the
city’s administrative center is located, Arena das Dunas
has reached 67% of completion in the construction
works, 9% more than the initial forecast. In the month
of March, the services were sped up, with the assembly
of bleachers of the East Sector and conclusion process of the West Sector. At the same time, important
structures were built, like cabins, dressing rooms, restrooms and the Media Center. Installation of elevators
and of the air-conditioning system is in progress.
According to the president of Arena das Dunas,
Charles Galvão, the infrastructure phase posed a
great construction challenge, mainly in the service
fronts for execution of piles and pile caps. “Another
great victory was to increase productivity in the works
with the aim of being ahead of the pre-established
schedule. For this, an innovative technique was used
to manufacture and assemble the bleachers and raker beams, consisting of the use of metallic forms with
assembly and manufacturing systems”, he listed.
While the operational overseer, Edson Cruz, informed that another relevant factor that contributed
toward attaining this productivity was the learning
promoted by the interaction and exchange of experiences with the work teams of the Arena do Grêmio
and Arena Fonte Nova.
Arena das Dunas will have an infrastructure that
will offer comfort and security, with over 2.6 thousand
parking spaces, two electronic scoreboards, sound
system, modern ticketing, 23 areas for concession of
foods and drinks, VIP space with hospitality lounges,
40 cabins with exclusive restrooms, dressing rooms,
media & TV center, areas for restaurant, gym and
commercial spaces, in addition to an indoor arena.
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African works
INTERNATIONALIZATION
PHOTOS WESLEY SANTOS
Arena do Grêmio receives friendly match of the Brazilian Soccer Team
OAS contributed with expertise in the construction
of works in Africa. In Equatorial Guinea and in Republic
of Guinea, they present challenges and achievements
PHOTOS OAS ARCHIVE
By Bianca Rossoni
FIFA CONSIDERED ARENA DO GRÊMIO SECURE AND
COMFORTABLE ACCORDING TO AN ARTICLE IN VEJA ONLINE
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Arena do Grêmio received on Sunday, 9th of June, its
first international friendly match: between the Brazilian
and French soccer teams. The match, the last before the
Confederations Cup, was won by the Brazilian team by
3X0 and highlighted Arena do Grêmio as one of the main
undertakings of the new generation of multiuse arenas
built in Brazil. The match marked the second biggest
public every recorded in the Arena of the three-colored
gaucho team, with over 51 thousand people.
The quality, comfort and beauty of the Arena were
the main highlights. The president of the Brazilian Soccer Confederation (‘CBF’), José Maria Marin, classified
the undertaking as “First World”: “Besides the architectonic beauty, it provides the soccer fan with comfort and
security. A pride to Brazilian soccer and an example to
all of us”, he said.
To mark the historic date, the Arena delivered to the
Brazilian and French delegations a crystal cube
with a miniature of the complex engraved in its
interior. After the match, the coach Luiz
Felipe Scolari, a declared Grêmio
soccer team fan, received a
special mockup of the replica
of his team’s home. The state
governor, Tarso Genro, highlighted that the Arena is a
vector of development for
W
ith undertakings in various countries of Latin
America, OAS went to other continents and today operates in Africa, in the following regions:
Mozambique, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of
Ghana and Republic of Guinea.
The economy in the African continent is still in the
early stages of development, and OAS, with its expertise, identifies great opportunities to build important
works and to also create partnerships with local companies, with potential to increase activity and technological progress.
Two good examples of this operation are the works
performed in Equatorial Guinea and Republic of Guinea.
Challenges in Equatorial Guinea
the region: “Without doubt it will attract several events,
not only soccer, which will reflect on the surroundings”.
Despite being the stage of neither the Confederations Cup nor the World Cup next year, Arena do Grêmio
was the only one to meet the schedule stipulated by
FIFA. One of the rare private undertakings of this new
generation of Brazilian multiuse equipments, Arena
do Grêmio was delivered at the end of last year, with a
great inauguration feast and a friendly match between
the gaucho team and Hamburg, from Germany.
In an article of the online issue of Revista Veja [Veja
Magazine], on Sunday, with a full house (51,919 people
and earnings of over R$ 6 million), the arena attended
to the fan well. The magazine highlighted that between
one event and another, the equipment passed through
the process that FIFA deems essential before evaluating an arena as secure and comfortable. Arena do Grêmio is a quality standard benchmark.
ROAD THAT WILL CONNECT THE PORT AREAS OF MALABO to the LUBA
REPUBLIC OF GUINEA: PAVING OF 30 ROADS
OAS is building a large dual-lane road, with length
of 51 km, in Bioko island, interconnecting the port areas
of the Malabo capital and of the city of Luba, the two
foremost ports of the country, great producer of oil. The
works is public, with investment from the government of
approximately US$ 320 million for earthworks, drainage,
bridge, paving and road signaling services.
The location of the works, a tropical forest region,
makes construction of the road a great challenge. It is a
rough terrain, requiring sophisticated engineering solutions. “There are countless challenges, almost the entire
material is imported and we can only count on air transport, since the sea route is not frequent”, states Arthur
Leandro Daltro Cerqueira, Financial Administrative
responsible of the works.
Other challenges are cultural differences, the manner of work, feeding and difficulty in understanding the
dialect. The works started in September 2012 and are
scheduled to end in September 2015.
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In the African continent, OAS has
works in Mozambique, Angola,
Equatorial Guinea, Republic of
Ghana and Republic of Guinea
earlier for acculturation, adaptation to the new language (French) and knowledge of the social challenges
of a very poor and suffering but very joyful and receptive
population, after many years of dictatorship. “There are
logistic and geographical difficulties of materials and
equipments, in addition to unskilled labor. The planning was complex, since the team had to intervene with
heavy machinery in various communities, with different
cultures and dialects”, reports the Contract manager,
Rafael Arregui Lubianca.
In its 24 months of duration, the project will promote
the generation of direct and indirect jobs and, in the long
term, it will bring better quality of life, qualification of
local workers and reduction of accidents, reduction of
congestions, improvement in urban mobility and a better
landscape aspect.
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PHOtos OAS archive
In the Republic of Guinea, the employees are 95% local. They work in the construction and paving of 30 roads
in the urban perimeter of the country’s capital, Conakry,
totaling 27 km of roads. The project includes the execution of cleaning, earthworks, paving, rainwater drainage
services, in addition to complementary services, like vertical and horizontal signaling and urban interferences in
telephones, water and sewage.
While the 5% of the expatriate managerial team
undergo an intense process of integration in São Paulo
and, in a second stage, in Conakry, with the aim of facilitating the works, integration with the community and be
qualified for the new challenge. The works of the Conakry Urban Road Project started in February 2013, however, OAS’ employees reached the country two years
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Build today the Guinea of tomorrow
CLIMBERS OF ARENAS: FUNDAMENTAL FOR FINISHING REPAIRS AND PAINTING AT HEIGHTS OF UP TO 48 METERS
Risky works
with safety
In OAS’ differentiated operations, continuous efforts are made
for all those to be able to perform their activities (even the most
dangerous) within the standards of excellence in safety
By Tarcísio Alves
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IN THE CONAKRY CAPITAL, 95% OF THE WORKERS ARE LOCAL
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MALABO: WORKS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOREST
isks are inherent to the activities performed in large-scale works.
Some of them, however, require even greater cares with regard to
preventive measures. They are the so-called differentiated operations, in which there is a high level of danger. Can you imagine that, to conclude construction of a soccer stadium, like the Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova,
in Salvador, even climbers went into action? And it is not because OAS is not
an expert in this field they operate in the worksite in absentia: besides being
supervised, they follow a plan that meets the strictest safety standards. The
same occurs in the work of divers who are present in the Transcarioca works,
in Rio. In this article, you will know, in detail, how OAS works to guarantee the
safety of its employees, mainly in high-risk operations. And understand why
the company is an example of excellence in this field.
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Lifting of special cargos
Industrial climbing
Safe work in high places
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Imagine placing a 40-ton beam over two pillars of concrete, at a height of 50 meters. And repeating this
operation four, five, six times… It is what is done during the construction of a viaduct over a road, for example.
This work, of an impressive precision, is conducted entirely with the use of cranes. “The moments of highest
risk are the transport of the beam to the place of lifting and its lifting itself above the pillars. It cannot go
more than one millimeter to one side or to the other, in order to follow what was planned in the operation”,
explains Dermeval Warner Bastos Jr., manager of EHS (Environment, Health & Safety), from the São Paulo
Management/South of OAS.
Planning is key in this type of operation. And those who see everything from the ground have no idea how
many stages are involved. The first step is to elaborate a Rigging Plan, with details on the movement of cargos using cranes. The plan contemplates weight, thickness, cargo size and even critical points of the location
where it will pass, among other aspects.
After the plan’s validation comes the operational part per se. The area is isolated, the checklist of the operation performed, the beams to be laid are loaded and, finally, the laying itself of the beams over the pillars
(which takes about one hour). Each structure laid also has an anchoring plan, so it does not fall during the
assembly. After the laying, the process of fastening them begins (first, temporarily; then definitively), such
that they are according to what was designed.
At the same time, correct use of the materials, environmental impacts and eventual injuries that may occur,
involving workers of the team are taken into account. The
professional of greater projection, during the lifting work,
is called a Rigger. “He is the one who signals to the crane
operator the maneuvers the latter must make”, explains
the coordinator. “If there is an imbalance in the lifting, the
crane may even fall over. It is a millimetric operation”, he
points out. “This is why we have a commitment to international standard safety”, he rounds up.
OAS ARCHIVE
Divers
LÉO AZEVEDO
Before the players of Bahia and
Vitória entered the field to inaugurate the Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova,
on the 7th of April, a team of 80 industrial climbers made the last finishing touches in the stage that
would host the classic match.
Climbers in a soccer stadium?
That’s right! Industrial climbers
are professionals who access
suspended structures through
ropes to perform precision works.
In the case of the arena, where 95%
of the works were concluded, no crane or
machine would facilitate access to the roofing structure, which was already ready. “They
were fundamental for repairs in the painting
and for adjustments in the roofing’s sustaining structure”, explains João Carlos Cardoso, manager of EHS (Environment, Health & Safety) of OAS.
The industrial climbers worked in the arena for
three months, at heights of up to 48 meters. One of
the works performed was the tightening of bolts in the
structure sustaining the roofing. “Since it is flexible,
once mounted, one must wait for a few days for it to
set and then retighten the bolts”, comments Cardoso. “It is a precision work, in which the torque (tightening) applied to the bolts must be according to that
recommended in the design”, he points out. Another
work was that of repair in the roofing painting, which
reached 2 thousand m2 out of a total of 15 thousand
m2 of painted area.
The concern with safety guided OAS right from the
hiring of these professionals in specialized companies.
Not only their certificates were required, according to
international standards, which classifies the climbers
at three levels, but detailed preliminary analysis was
also conducted of the risks involved in the activity and
the control measures were taken. “It is an activity of
potentially very high risks”, attests Cardoso. “As you increase the control measures, the risk reduces”. Another
point observed was the certification of equipments with
supervision of the Ministry of Labor – the ropes, for instance, have validity and are disposed of periodically.
Despite meeting the safety standards on hiring
qualified professionals and certified equipments, OAS
took an extra care on requesting for climbing experts
(level 3) to inspect the other workers. “Their eyes were
ours there, since we did not have expertise for this type
of activity”, says Cardoso, referring to Rafael Belacqua. “In the civil area, contrary to the industrial area, people are not yet used to the work of
access by ropes, as the climbers do, and in this
case OAS was a pioneer”, he says. “OAS has a
constant concern with safety of the workers. It
had an even greater concern due to involving
an activity that is usually not part of our
high-risk works”.
While in Arena do Grêmio, in
Porto Alegre, the 50 industrial
climbers involved in conclusion
of the works had a special mission: to install the two biggest
screens of Brazil, each with
96.4 m2 and weighing 5 tons,
52 meters from the ground.
In addition, 408 reflectors were
fixed to the metallic structures of
the stadium. “Since there are no standards regulating industrial climbing,
and exposure to the risks is very great,
OAS supervised the work from beginning
to end, and our assessment is totally positive”, states Sergio Monteiro, responsible
for EHS (Environment, Health & Safety).
OAS ARCHIVE
Not 1 mm more or less
Safety even underwater
A cable-stayed bridge is being built over Baía da
Guanabara, connecting the Fundão to Ilha do Governador. The bridge, to be used exclusively by BRT (Bus Rapid Transit), an express bus corridor that will be part of the
Transcarioca works, is already a candidate to enter the
list of postcards portraying the city’s urban architecture.
Far from the view of everyone, a team of five divers work
in the works, performing tasks like fastening steel cables
to the float or recovering tools that fall in the sea, at a
depth of up to ten meters.
Since a great part of their work is underwater, there
is a special care with safety. Therefore, before each dive,
signaling buoys are spread on the surface. “This serves
for the vessels that circulate there to avoid that space”,
explains Paulo Costa, responsible for EHS (Environment,
Health & Safety) of OAS in Consórcio Transcarioca Rio.
In addition, a hyperbaric chamber remains available,
in case the drivers return too quickly to the surface and
develop the so-called decompression illness, in which
nitrogen forms micro-bubbles in the organism, which
can lead to more serious complications. If this occurs,
the divers must enter the chamber, where the oxygen
pressure is above normal, in order to eliminate the hydrogen buildup.
The chamber is operated by one of the team members, under supervision of a doctor. “Since we work in hazardous conditions, with dives of up to 30 meters, it is essential to have this equipment at our disposal”, confirms
the diving supervisor Flavio Roberto Bastos Sarmento.
“In addition to the preliminary analysis of risks that
involve the activity, we will maintain daily training and dialogues regarding safety, for the divers to be aware that
all preventive measures must be taken”, explains Costa,
highlighting that it is better to prevent. Always.
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Detonations, noise and dust, but in a controlled fashion
at strategic points send an alert in case there is any
movement due to the excavation works that affects
construction of the tunnels.
With regard to the detonation itself, it is done in
three stage, announced with sounds of the siren. The
first warns that the detonation will occur soon. The
second comes after 15 minutes and means evacuate
the entire area of risk. “This is a moment that requires
a great deal of attention because if people do not
leave their homes and their businesses, there may be
no detonation”, explains Guereschi.
Half an hour later, at most, the entire area must be
evacuated and the traffic blocked: the detonation occurs concomitantly to the third sound of the siren. An
emergency ambulance takes position. The next hour,
when the dust settles, the experts, duly wearing safety equipment, check if all the explosives were detonated (if not, the operation must be repeated). If yes,
the fourth sound of the siren goes off, releasing traffic
of people and vehicles. And life returns to normal in
the port region. Until the next detonation.
“All this work is done through a systematic follow-up by our occupational safety experts during the
entire process, from the placing of explosives to release of the areas”, stresses Guereschi.
Dhani Accioly Borges
No shocks around here!
Tunnels and detonations with explosives in Porto do Rio
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The objective of the Refineries is to obtain oil byproducts by processing the raw materials, and involves several
operations, in addition to specialized labor. Due to involving
a dangerous business, and to prevent loss to people and to
the environment, a strict control of the risks is required. To
check the operating conditions of the equipments or systems, tests are conducted during the pre-commissioning
activities and operation, before start of the activities, the
so-called equipment starting. “We tested motors of the
pumps, panels and other items involved in the process”,
says Dario Dias de Souza Filho, electrical technician from
Consórcio Conest, of which OAS is a member together
with Odebrecht and which is responsible for several units
of Refinaria Abreu e Lima (Rnest), located in Ipojuca, municipality of the Recife Metropolitan Region.
Souza Filho cites as example the Atmospheric Distillation Units (‘UDAs’) 11 and 12, places that receive the oil
and where it is separated to give rise to byproducts, like
diesel, with total capacity of 31,800 m3/day. The risks are
high, not just because oil is flammable, but also because
the material is exposed to high temperatures, pressures
and equipments that run on electricity. “We are talking
of motors of 480 to 4,160 volts. Imagine the impact of an
electric shock caused by one of these equipments”, the
specialist remarks.
“All these cares are the fruit of a teamwork, following
the concepts of Operational Discipline, that is, right all the
time”, states the manager of EHS of the ‘UDA’, Nilton Lo
Bianco. Besides the cautions required to meet Regulatory Standard no. 10, contained in Ordinance nº 598 dated
12/07/2004 of the Ministry of Labor, a specific procedure
was elaborated – the Management of Dangerous Energies
During Execution of the Undertaking.
According to Lo Bianco, “we cannot think only of electric shocks in this final stage of assembly, but also in other
energies”. Energy is taken to mean all the electromechanical forces used to activate machinery and equipment, like
the electricity already cited, compressed air, oil or water
under pressure or steam. Team and compressed air are
sources of energy and can cause injuries.
Another professional of fundamental importance
in the prevention of accidents with dangerous energies
is the electrical engineer Henrique Camargo, responsible for electrical maintenance of the works, and also for
compliance with regulatory standard NR 10. According
to him, there are dangerous energies in various environments of the ‘UDA’, such as in the distribution boards.
J. Nascimento
Tests and commissioning in the refineries
The port region of Rio de Janeiro city is being revitalized – which involves some detonations required
for the construction of two tunnels. The Expressway
has 2,010 meters and two parallel galleries, with six
lanes, three being in direction of the airport and the
others in direction of the bus terminal. While the tunnel of Via Binário do Porto will have 1,480 meters, with
three lanes, all in direction of the bus terminal.
There are two to three detonations daily, in an estimated term of two and a half years, until conclusion
of the works. Each detonation consumes 20 to 30 kilos of explosives and makes the so-called excavation
front advance two to three meters. The blasting plan
is elaborated by the mining engineer and is executed
by the blaster (professional qualified by a body of the
army). “All received training and use the necessary
individual protection equipments (IPEs)”, says Luiz
Carlos Guereschi, responsible for EHS at OAS and for
the opening of tunnels in Porto do Rio.
The safety plan contemplates protection of the
surroundings so that there is no stone projection on
the community. In addition, a precautionary inspection is conducted in the properties, in a radius of 200
m2, to verify the structural conditions – if there are
cracks, the work is suspended. Seismologists located
HENRIQUE CAMARGO, RESPONSIBLE FOR ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE
AND FOR COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATORY STANDARD NR 10
These boards, once mounted and interconnected, enter
the commissioning phase, in which there are first the cold
tests and, later, these boards are powered with the due
voltages. Once commissioned, tested and adjusted, they
must be preserved and remain in this state up to the start
of the Refinery’s operation.
Therefore, according to Lo Bianco, the cited procedure of Hazardous Energy Management establishes control measures, in order to allow insulation and blocking of
the power supplies in every and any activity. These activities may be maintenance, repair, tests, modifications and
adjustments, among others, in equipments, machines
and systems in which any type of incident is likely to occur,
unexpectedly. These incidents may occur during powering up, starting, leakage of product, dissipation or release
of stored energy, in the undertaking for Construction and
Electromechanical Assembly of the Atmospheric Distillation Units (UDAs 11 and 12) in Rnest. They may cause personal injuries, material or environmental damages if these
measures are not taken.
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Female achievements
ANDREA BAPTISTA, PLANNING MANAGER
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DENISE BENATTI,
PROPOSAL OVERSEER
“Administrative decentralization here is an important differential as it unites teams and makes the work
more efficient. Meeting goals and teamwork do not depend on gender, reason why I have never faced barriers
to rise”, she says. According to Denise, today, the female
presence in worksites is more noticeable because there
was also a significant improvement in physical facilities,
greater safety and comfort, in addition to technological
innovations that offer to change physical strength by the
automatic operation of equipments, for instance.
“At OAS, the job vacancy is occupied by the one who
shows aptitude and competence, regardless of gender.
Without doubt, civil construction will have an ever increasing presence of women”, states Denise.
Challenges and overcoming
Thorough, zealous, focused on the job, organized and
endeavored to excel in the profession. These are some of
the qualifications of the women who works in civil construction defined by Andrea Baptista Tosta da Silva, engineer, Planning manager in OAS works in Rio de Janeiro, in
the company for 11 years. “Here in the company, the men
outnumber the women, but we are respected and we feel
no discrimination”, she remarks.
According to her, the woman is entering more and
more in the construction job market because she excels
and seeks to work in the best way possible. “To establish
OAS ARCHIVE
emale achievements in various sectors of the society are visible, from the presidents of multinationals to the president of Brazil. They are engineers,
administrators, psychologists, general service assistants,
among so many other occupations and, in many cases,
deal harmoniously with the tasks of mother, wife and
housewife.
In OAS, women are present in all the sectors. From
the administrative areas to the worksites. But it is in the
worksites that the functions performed by these professionals have called attention. Some studied and saw in
civil engineering their greater professional realization
and are becoming more and more qualified in the specialty they chose. Others, through technological advancements in which strength gave way to intelligence, saw in
the sector, traditionally occupied by men, the chance to
find a profession.
The acceleration of the economy and demand for
labor also contributed toward increasing the number
of women in civil construction. Statistically, this is evidenced by the information from the Annual List of Social Information (‘Rais’), of the MTE (Ministry of Labor &
Employment), which revealed a growth of 65% of female
participation in civil construction, last decade. In 2000,
there were about 83 thousand women out of 1.094 million workers from the sector. In 2008, they occupied almost 138 thousand workstations in the area. Today, in the
country, it is estimated that 200 thousand women work
in worksites, about 8% of the total employed in the constructions.
Next, get to know the story of five professionals from
OAS and their success trajectories that evidence that the
winning of their spaces is irreversible.
By Guilherme Calderazzo
Consolidated success
The engineer Denise Benatti has been in OAS for 23
years and is today Proposal overseer. She is a witness
and example of the changes in the sector because she
started working in the company as a member of the works
planning team, she later went to work in the bidding documental area, where she reached the position of manager. Due to her knowledge and experience, she became
responsible for the proposal area and is today one of the
overseers in the management of the Excellence Center.
New technologies
and improvements on
physical facilities offer
advantages to women
herself, the women knows her performance must be
equal to or better than that of the man. She has thus been
winning her space in the works”.
According to Andrea, at OAS, the professional is valued in the same way, regardless of gender. “The company
provides qualification courses and there is no salary distinction for the same function”, she guarantees. Andrea is
an example of a professional who knows how to perfectly
align her other obligations. One day after granting the interview to Revista OAS, she went to the hospital to give
birth to her Maria Clara.
Daily learning
OAS employee since January, Maria Ecilene Badu Silva, overseer in the works for expansion of the GRU Airport
(SP), says that she finally found the work sector she intends
to dedicate herself to. “For me, working in a works is something new. I like it here a lot. I learn something new everyday.
I will attend courses and I do not ever want to leave the field.
Her contracting by the company was a great victory,
despite her not having attended the course to work in the
sector. “Separated, after 20 years of marriage and aged
MARIA ECILENE,
OVERSEER
camilo tavares/pequi filmes
Since last decade, women have
occupied more space in the sector,
showing that this trend is irreversible
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At OAS, the job vacancy is occupied
by the one who shows aptitude and
competence, regardless of gender.
Denise Benatti, Proposal overseer
Well with life
OAS ARCHIVE
Haydee Soledad Oliveira, photocopier in a printing
machine, in the Vias de Acesso Porto Salvador, she feels
like a different women, “after I started to work in OAS”,
since October 2011. With two children, one aged 19 and
another 20, she says she entered the company as a bricklayer’s mate and attended internal courses: one to operate
the printer and another computers. “This is why I qualified.
If I ever leave here, which is
against my wish, I now have the
condition to be employed in another company”.
In the third month of work,
Haydee says she was invited to
attend the courses and change
area in the company. “My spine is
crooked because of scoliosis. My
HAYDEE SOLEDAD,
PHOTOCOPIER
bosses recognized my dedica-
Today, in the country,
it is estimated that
200 thousand women
work in worksites
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tion to the job and offered the courses, so I could work without exerting my spine. I am very satisfied and happy here”.
At OAS, the employees are respected, well treated
and have encouragement and opportunities to grow professionally. “I will attend more courses. I intend to work in
the financial sector of the company”, she concludes.
Fighting for perfection
With five years of experience in civil construction, Rosemeri Aparecida Souza Silva, who has been working in OAS
for a year, attended the bricklayer course in Senai and decided to work in this market. “I left the construction company I
was working in and entered the company because I saw the
opportunity for professional growth and salary
increase”, she says.
Head of a team of
bricklayers, Rosemeri
worked in the finishing
of the works in Arena
do Grêmio, sports club
of Porto Alegre, native
city of the professional.
“I become involved and
get on well with the
team. The work is thus
more productive and
all stand to gain”.
According to her,
every worker should
ROSEMERI APARECIDA, HEAD OF TEAM
do the best he or she
can in the professional,
specially the women who is working in an environment
where the majority are men, as in the worksite. “I have no
problems due to being a women. I am respected here at
work. I work hard for the work to be perfect”, she assures.
Rosemeri reveals that she will take new courses because she intends to improve herself and become a foreman. “For this, I have the support of both the company
and my husband, who helps me care for the home and
our three daughters”.
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OAS ARCHIVE
41 years, it was hard to find a job. But I did it”, she reveals.
According to her, some accountancies find it weird
when she tells them that she works in the worksite. “It is
because of machismo. Here in the works, the men outnumber the women. But they respect me, they teach me
patiently how to do the work. I have a lot of support and
friendly shoulder”.
Maria Ecilene states that she will build a career in construction. “I am already looking for courses. I want to be a
technician and be able to work in more than one sector, even
because I am proud to see the works being constructed”.
GRU Airport:
flying high
OAS faces one of its biggest challenges in the airport infrastructure
sector with shareholding and execution of the works of the biggest
international airport in Latin America for the 2014 World Cup
By Lúcio Lambranho
A
project never before conducted in such a short
timeframe in the history of the airport infrastructure sector. This is how the executives ahead of
the concessionaire, investors and engineers of OAS face
the challenge they took up until delivery of the main
works and changes in the management of the biggest
passenger terminal in Latin America. By the 2014 World
Cup, a total of R$ 3 billion would have been invested in
the São Paulo International Airport, from a total investment plan of R$ 6 billion for 20 more years.
The biggest investment concentrated in São Paulo
State, and the main showcase of the federal government’s
concession process in the area of transport and logistics,
will have during this period intense participation by OAS.
Besides executing the works in the airport, OAS is part of
the consortium that won the concession bid, made up of
Invepar (90%) and ACSA (10%). Invepar’s shareholders
are OAS, Previ, Petros and Funcef. While ACSA operates
nine airports in South Africa and participated in the entire
terminal operation in the 2010 World Cup.
There will be only 19 months from signing the contract to May 2014 to deliver the new airport equipments
operating. “It is a very great challenge, in which OAS, the
airport concessionaire, the project companies and their
managers of the system and operation parts must work
very closely in order to be able to do everything within
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Antonio Miguel Marques,
president of GRU Airport
In many airports worldwide, there is no longer the
check-in counter and everything is electronic, including
baggage dispatch. “This is the first paradigm shift. We
will reach this reality of not having counter in Terminal 3
quickly, despite the fact that some changes must be made
in the legislation, but this already contemplates the concept that the first person the passenger will see is at the
airplane door”, states the president of the concessionaire.
In the new terminal, says the executive, some adaptations were made to the Brazilian mode, but the airside
will really increase. “In the main airports worldwide, after
passing through the Federal Police, the user ends up in
the mall. Our passenger will have commercial options of
food & drink and entertainment in the airside”.
pequi filmes
pequi filmes
The garage
building adds
over 2.6 thousand
spaces to the
parking lots.
pequi filmes
Fast track
GARAGE BUILDING INAUGURATED IN MAY 22, 2013
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the deadline. This has never been done before anywhere
in the world in the sector”, points out Antonio Miguel
Marques, president of GRU Airport.
In the first three months of management without
Infraero’s participation, the concessionaire was able to
increase parking spaces, reform restrooms, change the
entire airport signaling and improve boarding and arrival processes. The high point of this first phase of the
works was the inauguration, on the 22nd of May, of the
garage building, which adds over 2.6 thousand spaces
to the parking lots. With an investment of R$ 60 million, the building has a structure of eight floors and area
of 89 thousand square meters. With it, the airport now
has 7.5 thousand positions, representing an increase of
87% in the number of spaces available before the concession. In addition, construction of the new Passenger
Terminal, TPS3, should reach its construction peak in
the month of June.
Terminal 3, states Antonio Marques, is the fist big
challenge because there will be three months of equipment assembly, from September to December this year,
at the same time that the civil construction works in the
airport’s surroundings will continue. “The systems part
enters in November and the civil part of the stores in January. And then a fourth layer, with training of personnel”,
says the president of the concessionaire.
At the same time with the construction, the company concluded the purchase processes of equipments
and technologies that will be used in the new terminal,
like check-in self-service totems, self bag drop, x-rays,
e-gates for immigration/emigration control, in addition
to the entire baggage boarding and arrival system.
The new terminal, which will have an area greater than Terminals 1 and 2 together, is being built and
mounted using the latest airport technology and according to a model first implemented in Asia, but that
has already been absorbed by the sector in Europe. According to Miguel Marques, the modern concept of airports is different from what we have in Brazil today. In
the country, explains the president of GRU Airport, there
are much more areas on what we call the landside and
after the x-ray, the airside.
Unlocking a series of processes at the same time that
the engineering works are executed is the great differential of this works, according to the OAS engineers involved
in the project. “This works per se is complex, due to being
the construction of an airport with the engineering works
of a works of this type, but it has the particularity of having a short term and defined without any hypothesis of
postponement. The greatest challenge of the team was
to create a construction system that would mainly adapt
to the narrow time, and a design that is being elaborated at the same time as the works, a fast track”, evaluates
Francisco Germano, operational overseer of the works in
GRU Airport and OAS engineer for 25 years.
Besides having to make them in this execution
model, the new airport constructions, like all of the
World Cup’s works, adopted the solution of precast
parts. In the building of the new Terminal 3, there are
55 pillars concreted directly in the site to sustain the
roofing and 816 precast pillars. “For this, seven companies were hired to manufacture the parts, 40% of them
being produced in the precast center of the works”, explains Germano.
In the garage building, whose works started in September 10, 2012, everything is 100% precast. It was executed using standard slabs from the market, but in the
new terminal 15% of them were specially created by the
construction company during the assembly. The new
Duty Free area is also 100% precast and had its structure
mounted in just ten days.
The reform of the runways started in April and a first
new apron is already being executed for 13 new aircraft
spaces. “There is a timeframe that starts in May and goes
up to September, when the flow of aircrafts is less. We
have working hours and a series of safety specifications,
everything is almost always done in the early morning
hours, up to 3 am, when the team must leave the site and
return the next day. All planned in advance so as not to
disturb the operation”, says Germano. The main runway,
OAS ARCHIVE
CONSTRUCTION CHALLENGES INVOLVE THE DEADLINE AND OPERATIONS
FORTY PERCENT OF THE MATERIAL USED IS PRODUCED IN THE WORKS
By the 2014 World Cup, a total
of R$ 3 billion will have been invested
in the São Paulo International Airport
3,700 meters long, will also be widened up to 2016. The
aircraft apron’s expansion, with capacity for 36 more positions, should be concluded by the end of this year.
Francisco Germano is working in the construction of
his first airport, but he is an expert in fast works and has two
malls and over 20 supermarkets in his résumé, as well as
other complex constructions like the TIM Auditorium and
Octavio Frias de Oliveira Stayed Bridge, current postcard
of São Paulo, plus 50 more works. Despite all his experience, the engineer does not underestimate the challenge
imposed by the complexity of the project in Guarulhos.
“The works of the terminal is not easy because it has the
most innovative electronic baggage and control system in
the world. There are 25 thousand square meters of glass
to be installed.
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Cristina Gallo
OAS ARCHIVE
Cristina Gallo
OAS ARCHIVE
The quality
of the operation with
the new facilities
will make GRU a
world class airport
gustavo Rocha
francisco Germano
The transition works of four months performed
in partnership with OAS went very well.
Gustavo Rocha, president of Invepar
Today, with six months of works, we have already
placed over 160 thousand cubic meters of concrete in the
project. The works has work of 24 hours and about 400
people working at night. The night here is not for resting”,
states the Operational overseer of OAS in Guarulhos.
The peak of the works will be attained between July
and August and majority of the 27 service fronts will be
delivered by March 2014, since time is needed to train the
employees and place a series of processes into operation
despite full delivery of the undertaking being scheduled
for April and May 2014.
The staff of workers today is 3 thousand from the construction company and 800 outsourced. There will be 4
thousand during the work peak, not to mention the employees from equipment installers, which should be about
6,500 and 7 thousand workers. In order to be able to attend
to all these employees well, OAS has already built a refectory for 1,800 people sited at a time.
Brazil. “The GRU Airport represents for Invepar the concretization of a strategic project outlined in 2009 and has
a very important role due to the visibility and challenge
involved in implementing what will be the biggest airport
in the next ten, fifteen years, in Latin America”, believes
Gustavo Rocha, president of Invepar.
The executive, who was once managing director of
OAS Investimentos between 2006 and 2010, also highlights two points he deems essential for everything to work
out in the concession’s operation: an innovative business
plan and a strategic partnership still during the bid with
ACSA, responsible for operation of the airports during
the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. “Its recent expertise
in conducting a strong investment program focused on an
event equal to the one we will have next year has been very
important. This makes us very confident that we will deliver
a great airport for the World Cup”, says Rocha.
GRU Airport in figures
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On the side of the concessionaire that operates the
terminal, over 400 employees from Infraero were maintained and about 1 thousand professionals were hired.
After the end of contracting, according to forecast of the
GRU Airport, its staff of workers will have approximately
1,600 people and strategic areas, previously outsourced,
are now part of the concessionaire’s team.
In addition to operation without failures and meeting
of deadlines, the project is regarded a priority for the success of new operations and investments in the sector in
INVESTMENTS
R$ 6 billion up to 2032, out of which R$ 3 billion is up to the
2014 World Cup.
SCHEDULE OF THE WORKS
Up to the 2014 World Cup
• New terminal for over 12 million passengers/year
• 22 more boarding bridges
• Apron with 36 aircraft positions
• 10 thousand parking spaces available
Up to 2022
• Total capacity for 60 million passengers/year
hilário Leonardo Pereira filho
Antonio Miguel Marques
Business plans
The business plan, states the executive, is based on
increasing the quality and offer of services to the passengers, in the so-called non-rate revenues, like hotel
operation, parking lots, free shops, expansion of stores
and feeding areas. “They are additional offers to the user
that in the end will give us a much better profitability and
at the same time make the passenger happier to pass
through Guarulhos”, he states. “The four-month transition work conducted in partnership with OAS was very
successful and was able to unlock all the environmental
licensing fronts, start of the works, projects and the entire
planning”, he rounds up.
According to the concessionaire, with inauguration of
Terminal 3, the airport will have a public profile in each
terminal. More popular businesses in Terminal 1, a mix of
stores for an intermediary public in terminal 2 and stores
of recognized trademarks in Terminal 3, to be used exclusively for international flights.
However, even before this segmentation, the passengers have already won new feeding options and stores. In
addition, in Terminals 1 and 2, an expansion on the side
of the so-called wing D was concluded, that has already
been delivered to storekeepers for them to install their
equipments. The aim was to obtain a better distribution
of the baggage sector, double the Duty Free area and install a food court in the departure lounge, after control, a
works also performed by OAS and that will be operational
in the month of July. “Everything was done without any
change in the airport’s operation, precisely because it is at
an end of the terminal, and those who use the location did
not know it was being expanded”, states Miguel Marques.
Within the corporate project, the concessionaire was
able to renew the contract with Dufry, owner of the Duty
Free stores in the Arrival of Terminal 2. According to the
GRU Airport, the expansion of Terminal 2 will add about
Main works
TERMINAL 3 AND HOTELS – Planned to receive
large planes, like the Airbus A380 and Boeing
747-800, it will have 190,000 square meters –
area larger than that of Terminals 1 and 2 together
(170,000 square meters). The first phase of the
works foresees 22 new boarding bridges. In the
new terminal, two hotels will be constructed, one
of three-stars, with 50 rooms, located in the restricted area, for passengers in international connection, and another of five-stars in the external
area of Terminal 3.
APRON – A new aircraft apron will also be built,
with 36 positions. To receive large aircraft, the
main runway will also be widened, going from the
current 45 to 60 meters. Still in the first phase of
the works, the concessionaire should reform and
maintain the taxiways and runway end safety areas
(Resas).
REFORMS IN THE CURRENT TERMINALS – After
delivery of the World Cup and with operation of
Terminal 3, the retrofit project of Terminals 1 and
2 will begin, in line with the design developed for
the new passenger terminal.
CARGO TERMINAL – GRU Airport has the main
Cargo Terminal of the country in the air modal,
with share of 32% in the total national activity. In
2013, the terminal will receive investments in the
order of R$ 45 million, R$ 25 million of which will
be to improve the warehousing infrastructure, increase the acclimatized area and purchase new
equipments to move cargo and collect data. Another R$ 10 million will be invested in the building’s reform, which today has 60 offices of airlines,
agents and dispatchers. Another R$ 10 million
will be invested in modernization of the operating
systems and services.
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E-GATE SYSTEM FOR BORDER CONTROL (emigration
and immigration) – With the electronic-chip bearing
passport issued by the Federal Police, users will be
able to make their identification and recognition validation to speed up the passenger flow. Developed in
partnership with the Federal Police, the system will
be installed in Terminal 3, to be inaugurated in May
2014.
CHECK-IN SYSTEM AND SHARED SELF-SERVICE KIOSKS (totems) – For the second half of the year, the
shared check-in counter and self-service kiosks (totems) will be installed for all the airlines operating in
the airport, allowing greater efficiency and operational capacity in the check-in areas.
SELF BAG TAG SYSTEM – Terminals 1 and 2 will be
equipped with the Self Bag Tag system, which allows
the passenger to check-in and print out the baggage
tab in a single equipment.
SELF BAG DROP SYSTEM – The new Passenger Terminal (TPS3) will have the Self Bag Drop system, which
allows the passenger himself or herself to dispatch
the baggage. The equipment has a type of scale that
weighs the bag. If the baggage exceeds the weight
limit, it is possible to pay the excess with card in the
system itself.
aire worked to enable with the state government
line 13 of the CPTM [São Paulo Metropolitan Train
Company], which is in phase of qualification and
receiving commercial proposals. The works should
start in July and be ready in 2016. It will leave Brás
and go up to Engenheiro Goulart and then straight
to the airport. The company is developing a project
to install a raised monorail system connecting the
train station to the main points of the airport. The
estimate is for the 2-km distance to be covered with
a frequency that allow access to any airport terminal
in at most 10 minutes.
OAS ARCHIVE
SURROUNDING ROAD COMPLEX – The concession-
WORKS ARE CONDUCTED WITHOUT INTERRUPTING THE AIRPORT
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EVENT
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Technology
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PRECAST PARTS WERE THE MOST SUITABLE SOLUTION
6 thousand square meters to the total area of the airport,
considering the Duty Free space, on the Arrival floor, and
the feeding area in check-in “D”, on the Boarding floor.
According to Hilário Leonardo Pereira Filho, director
of new business of Invepar, joining operational quality
with the new facilities will make GRU Airport a world class
airport and with a much greater growth perspective in the
business part. “Each passenger moving in Guarulhos will
have repercussion in the whole of Brazil and abroad. The
challenge has two angles. The first is to double the airport’s capacity. And the second is to build, in such a short
timeframe and with a tight schedule, a high-quality facility”, he points out.
Invepar’s director of new business, in the company
since 2008, after having been president of Companhia
Docas in Rio de Janeiro and overseer of Ferrovias at
ANTT, recalls that the project was considered outside
the normal conditions and was able to see important potentialities of the airport. “This was exactly what made
the difference in the bid. To better develop the commercial area, retail of the stores, transport of air cargo,
parking and potential for development of associated
ventures”, he says.
Hilário and his team prepared the proposals for the
three airports granted by the federal government in six
months. At the height of the project, 100 people worked
in a multidisciplinary team made up of engineers, administrators, attorneys, in addition to people specialized
in the environment and air sector. “We made a war room
and concentrated all the people in the same place. We
then followed a strict schedule of producing results to
be able to elaborate the proposal”, recalls the executive. By all appearances, the synergy among investors,
the concessionaire that administers GRU Airport and the
construction company’s engineers has been the recipe
for the success of one of OAS’ highest flights in the infrastructure sector in Brazil in and worldwide in view of the
repercussion the project will have up to the World Cup
and the 2016 Olympics.
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Dilma inaugurates
section of Canal
do Sertão
Works will directly benefit 1 million people
in 42 municipalities of Alagoas State.
OAS is responsible for a section that will be ready in 2014
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egarded as one of the biggest water works of the
Northeast and, presently, according to the local
government, the biggest infrastructure works of
Alagoas cutting through the Alagoan semiarid region in a
length of 250 kilometers, the first stage of Canal do Sertão
was inaugurated on the 12th of March by president Dilma
Rousseff and by the governor of Alagoas, Teotônio Vilela
Filho, in a ceremony attended by ministers, senators, federal and state representatives, state and municipal secretaries, mayors, leaders of social movements, workers and
directors of OAS, company responsible for a section of the
works – Lot 3 that goes from km 64.7 to km 92.93.
Dilma started her speed by thanking the workers who
made it possible to conclude the first 65 kilometers of Canal do Sertão (with its physical structure fully concluded
and already supplying water to the population of the municipalities of Delmiro Gouveia, Água Branca and Pariconha)
for their endeavor, capacity and effort. “Canal do Sertão of
Alagoas is the biggest water resource works executed by
the federal government in the country and the role of each
worker was essential to take water to the families that live
in the Alagoan semiarid region”, pointed out the president.
At the end of its length of 250 kilometers, which includes
the municipalities of Delmiro Gouveia, in the alto Sertão Alagoano [High Hinterland of Alagoas], and Arapiraca, in the
Agreste [wasteland] region, the works of Canal do Sertão will
have consumed R$ 3 billion, realizing the dream of two decades of families living in the two regions of Alagoas State.
By Ronaldo Lima
As Elmar Varjão, Northeast managing director, explains, the fate of the region, due to its vocation, lacks
investments in infrastructure and water resources, and in
this wise, the federal government in partnership with the
Alagoas government was strategic in another isolated action in the region punished by the drought.
“A work of great magnitude like Canal do Sertão, besides taking water for irrigation projects, human and animal consumption, will be essential to the development of
the entire region of the Sertão and Agreste of Alagoas”,
acknowledges Varjão. According to him, abundant water
and irrigated perimeters will strengthen the GDP, boost
the economy and allow improvement in the quality of life
of the hinterland families.
The Alagoas Government has already concluded the
two first sections of the canal, up to km 65, and the services are at an advanced stage and being continued up to
km 77, works being constructed by OAS, with funds already
secured by president Dilma Rousseff, in an announcement
made to the governor and mayors of the region.
Claudio Peixoto, OAS Contract manager, clarifies
that section 3, with a length of 28.23 kilometers, is already under execution from km 64.7 to 77.82. It currently
employs 1,100 people, but this number may reach 1,500
with start of the works that will go up to km 92.93. “The
great differential of this project is the energy savings
since the waters run by gravity, covering the level curves
along the entire canal.”
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Sanitation management in the São Paulo municipality,
by SAMAR, is a pioneering investment by OAS Soluções
Ambientais, with an eye on the medium cities of the country
By Alceu Castilho
ARAÇATUBA IS A REFERENCE CITY, BUT COMPANY IS TARGETING 32 OTHER BRAZILIAN MUNICIPALITIES
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raçatuba is a municipality in the northwest of São
Paulo with 181 thousand inhabitants. A typical
Brazilian medium city, it became a reference to
OAS Soluções Ambientais, an arm of OAS Investimentos. This is because the water & sewage management is
now under the responsibility of SAMAR (Soluções Ambientais de Araçatuba), a concession that announced a
new field of work for the next 30 years. With it, the group
is geared more directly – and already showing service –
toward the consumer.
32 other Brazilian municipalities are being targeted.
The predominant profile is that of medium cities, with
more than 100 thousand inhabitants. The main focus is on
supply, distribution and collection of domestic sewage, in
places where the state sanitation companies do not oper-
ate. Although the work is recent (full operation in Araçatuba dates back to November 2012), one can already see
some of the group’s hallmarks, known in the construction
sector, in this management universe also. Starting with
the permanent search for excellence.
The managing director of OAS Soluções Ambientais,
Louzival Mascarenhas Junior, presents superlative figures
in relation to the strategic planning. Annual revenues of
R$ 700 million are forecasted by 2017. While total investments in this period will be of up to R$ 7 billion. “Note that
the private sector is complementary to the public sector”,
he explains. It is a day-to-day different from that of large
engineering works. And not that this is not present, for example, in water intake from the Tietê River. But there is a
consumer there at the end, with his isolated complaints
Renato de Faria, president of SAMAR
regarding water supply or other problems historically faced in the network. And SAMAR’s action in the first
months was quick: from changes in the service standard
to immediate modernization of the fleet.
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SECTOR IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Araçatuba Effect
We will have an itinerant service,
with fleet specially adapted to attend
to the consumer where he is located.
Quality in service
“We will have an itinerant service, with fleet specially adapted to attend tot eh consumer where he is located”, says the president of SAMAR, Renato de Faria. The
search for excellence was shown from the onset, in relation to the liabilities of the former Water & Sewage Department of Araçatuba (‘DAEA’). When SAMAR started
the assisted operation works, transition period between
the managements, there were many potholes throughout the city. “We immediately assumed the problem
and covered over 670 potholes, right in the middle of
the rainy summer”, reports Faria. The result of this action is a wide receptiveness of SAMAR by the population,
confirmed by opinion polls conducted in the city. Other measures are less visible to the ordinary citizen. But
equally important. For example, the decision to sectorize the municipality. Before, a necessary disconnection
(in emergency cases) would affect the entire city. Now,
it will become isolated, per region. Another fundamental item is the fight against wastage. Statistics from SNIS
(National Environmental Sanitation System) show a loss
of 47% of water, from the intake. Reducing this number
is a commitment of the company, which is automating
records, implementing quality system (ISO 9001) and renewing the system of hydrometers.
For the consumer, all this means more water in the
faucet, while maintaining full service (in Araçatuba,
100%), without setbacks. And a better treated sewage,
now with universalization (the rate was 98%). In other
words: for the population of Araçatuba, this means health.
“With each monetary unit invested, four others are saved
in health”, pointed out Mascarenhas, citing studies of the
World Health Organization (WHO). “OAS Soluções Ambientais is the first asset of the company to reach the final
consumer in its broadest sense”, he states, emphasizing
the group’s willingness to invest in the consolidation of
these assets. For OAS, therefore, it means a different
path, and complements that tread in recent decades: that
of large works. But equally promising, with a new geographical circuit in sight, the medium cities. And with the
hallmark of excellence. Araçatuba was only the first. s
RENATO DE FARIA, PRESIDENT OF SAMAR, AND LOUZIVAL MASCARENHAS,
MANAGING DIRECTOR OF OAS SOLUÇÕES AMBIENTAIS
BETTER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND SAVINGS FOR THE POPULATION
STRICT QUALITY CONTROL OF THE WATER SUPPLIED AND CONSUMED
Total investments
will reach
R$ 7 billion by 2017
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OUR PEOPLE
did not want to abandon the company he was already in.
“I did not want to betray them, I wanted until conclusion
of the works and, at this time, OAS made me an offer and
I accepted”, he says.
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Family
PHOTOS CRISTINA GALLO
The time between courtship and start of the relationship lasted about 11 months, a time much less than
the 2 years it took to marry Lucia Maria, with whom he
has two daughters, Lilian and Luciana. The easy laugh
soon gives way to teary eyes when he talks of his daughters. “I love them, my greatest pleasure in life is to be
with my daughters”.
Lilian, aged 32 years, is a doctor, and Luciane, aged
31, is an architect. “Thanks to OAS, I was able to give a
very good standard of life to my daughters and more
importantly, their education”, he says proudly. Gonzaga
says that during the 30 years he has been in the company, he has climbed each year one step of his life, and is
today very realized.
Up to the end of last year, Gonzaga was in Porto
Alegre, building Arena do Grêmio. This year, he is already in Guarulhos, São Paulo, working in the expansion
of GRU Airport. “It is the fourth airport in which I am foreman, but I have done a little of everything”, he says.
Although OAS provides work opportunities in other
countries, Gonzaga has never wanted to leave here. His
fixed residence is in Maceió, to where he returns running
whenever he has a break, and thus sees his beloved Lucia Maria and his daughters. But he also finds time to
fly to Pernambuco and meet his parents, João Cordeiro,
aged 82, and Maria Gomes, aged 78. “I love my work a
lot, I love my family and I make each worksite another
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family, with all my friends.”
GONZAGA SAYS THAT DURING THESE 30 YEARS IN THE COMPANY, HE CLIMBED EACH YEAR ONE STEP OF HIS LIFE, AND IS TODAY GREATLY REALIZED
Great joy
in the heart
Know the story of foreman Luiz Gonzaga Araújo,
who has been in OAS for 30 years and reveals
that it all started with a crush
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y life is to wander through this country, to see
if one day I can rest happily... The verse of the
song by his idol, and also namesake, renders a
little of the story of foreman Luiz Gonzaga Araújo, aged
60 years, who has been working in OAS for 30 years. “I
have traveled all over Brazil with OAS and I love this land,
I never want to leave here”, he says proudly.
With light eyes and an easy smile, Gonzaga, as he is
called by all, is a born leader. He entered the company in
April 6, 1083 and has always been foreman. When asked
how he entered OAS, he readily replies: “It was a crush”.
How so? And he starts to tell the story of his life. At
the age of 16, he left the hinterland of Pernambuco State
to try to complete his studies, since his parents lacked the
financial conditions to pay for college for the 9 children
By Elenita Fogaça
and he, as firstborn, decided he would have to give his life
another direction.
He went to the capital, Recife, and did not stay there
long. “I had the opportunity of working in the publishing
house of the Senate, in Brasilia, as an office boy, in the
engineering department, and I stayed there for 2 years”,
he recalls. Already at the age of 18, he was invited by a
construction company to join the works in Recife, so he
returned to his native state.
While working in the construction company that hired
him, this was almost 10 years later, he saw OAS screens
multiplying throughout the city. “Everyday he would admire those plates, he felt that the company had ‘strength
and could offer other opportunities”, he reveals. Despite
feeling that there were chances to change worksite, he
I have traveled all
over Brazil with
OAS, I love this
land, I never want
to leave here.
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OAS ARCHIVE
TECHNOLOGY
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The Expresso Monotrilho Leste
(East Monorail Express)
is budgeted at R$ 2.4 billion
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Monorail has the biggest
capacity worldwide
OAS ARCHIVE
OAS is part of the construction of the Tiradentes Monorail,
the only that will transport 48 thousand people per hour, per direction,
reducing the time of travel with safety, comfort and sustainability
THE TECHNOLOGY TO MANUFACTURE THE PRECAST BEAMS, WHICH ARE ALSO
MADE IN CURVES IN THE WORKSITE, WAS SOUGHT OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY
NATÁLIA RODRIGUES NOGUEIRA CURRENTLY SPENDS TWO HOURS
IN TRANSPORT, IN FUTURE, THE SAME TRIP WILL TAKE 50 MINUTES
Compared to the Subway, the cost and
time of execution of the works are lower.
Antonio Carlos Nascimento, Contract manager
WITH CAPACITY TO TRANSPORT 48 THOUSAND PEOPLE PER HOUR, PER DIRECTION, THAT IS, OVER HALF A MILLION PASSENGERS PER DAY
By Marta Régia Vieira
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razil is installing one of the most modern and agile public transport systems, with high passenger
conducting capacity: the Monorail. The system is
already used successfully in countries of Asia, Europe
and North America, but not of them has the capacity to
transport 48 thousand people per hour per direction, that
is, over half a million passengers/day.
The project, under responsibility of Consórcio Expresso Monotrilho Leste (CEML), made up of the compa-
nies OAS, Queiroz Galvão and Bombardier, is developed
in the East Side of São Paulo, connecting the district of
Vila Prudente to Cidade Tiradentes. The region is one of
the most populous of the capital, with over 4 million people and recurrent problems in the public transport.
To have a notion of the magnitude of these problems,
just note the time residents of the district of Cidade Tiradentes take today to go to the Center is two hours, spent
between buses and subways. With arrival of the Tira-
dentes Monorail, this time should be reduced to 50 minutes, bringing significant gains to the citizens in quality of
life and also with real estate valuation of the region.
The Nursing student Natália Rodrigues Nogueira feels the consequences of this time wastage. “Three
times a week I work as trainee in the morning in a hospital in Sacomã and in the afternoon in a Health Center
in Cidade Tiradentes. To get there, I take the green line
of the subway, alight in Paraíso station, I change trains to
the blue line and go up to Sé station and then take the
red line up to Itaquera. Then I still spend forty minutes
in a bus. This totals almost two hours of travel”, explains
the girl, who is looking forward to the inauguration of the
Monorail in the region.
The project
The practicality, fastness, low cost of the works in relation to the Subway and its sustainability are some of
the main attractions of the Monorail, according to the
OAS Contract manager, Antonio Carlos Nascimento.
“The works is completely suspended, therefore, it involves less misappropriations, in addition, compared to
the Subway, the cost and time of executing the works are
less. This monorail line represents a third of the entire
subway network installed in the 40 years of the São Paulo Subway”, points out the engineer, who is also commercial manager of CEML.
The Tiradentes Monorail is budgeted at R$ 2.4 billion, including the civil works and the 54 trains that
will make up the system. In all, it will have 24.5 km of
dual ways, with 17 stations, which will operate as Line
15 – Silver of the Subway, passing through the districts
of Ipiranga, Vila Prudente, São Lucas, Camilo Haddad,
Vila Tolstoi, Vila União, Jardim Planalto, Sapopemba,
Fazenda da Juta, São mateus, Iguatemi, Jeriquiça, Jacu-Pêssego, Erico Semer, Marcio Beck, Cidade Tiradentes and Hospital Cidade Tiradentes.
According to the OAS planning manager, José Evandro Santos, the section to be inaugurated is that connecting Vila Prudente to Oratório, scheduled for April 2014.
One year later, it will be the turn of the Oratório/São Mateus section and, in December 2016, São Mateus to Hospital Cidade Tiradentes. “The Subway is already studying
the possibility of connecting the stations of Vila Prudente
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MEMORY
PHOTOS OAS ARCHIVE
PHOTOS OAS ARCHIVE
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In total, the monorail will have 24,5 kilometers of roads, with 17 stations working like 15th line - PRATA DO METRO
to Ipiranga of CPTM, which would represent a new section”, he reveals. One of the project’s strong points is the
safety, of the system as well as of the passengers. The
stations are elevated, rendering difficult the risks of criminal activities and vandalism. Besides this, closed circuit
TVs will monitor all movement in the stations and ways.
The platforms are equipped with doors synchronized with
the signaling system, increasing the safety of people. Elevated footbridges allow emergency exit of passengers in
adverse conditions in any point of the way.
The project also contemplates a landscape treatment
program around in the line and beneath the elevated way,
promoting well-being and social harmony with the installation of green areas and bicycle paths for the population.
Each composition will have seven wagons, with capacity to transport a total of 1,000 passengers at a speed
that can reach 80 km/h. According to Luis Ramos, direc-
tor of Communication at Bombardier, company responsible for the manufacture of trains, to reach this capacity,
which is similar to that of the Subway, there was the need
to use the same aluminum structure that is used to manufacture aircraft, making them 30% lighter.
Another advantage of the Monorail are the beams
that conduct it. “All the technology to manufacture the
precast beams was sought outside the country, since they
are made in curves right here in our worksite. This technology makes travel much more comfortable and safe.
The beam itself is the rail”, adds the engineer from OAS.
The trains have air-conditioning, are electric, fully
automated and operate without conductor – everything
is controlled through the monitoring center. They run on
rubber tires, which eliminates the friction of iron from the
wheel with the rail of the conventional subway, making
them much more silent.
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Tiradentes Monorail in figures:
R$ 2.4 billion is the total investment in the system
48 thousand passengers per hour and per direction (over half a million per day) is the system’s transport capacity
17 Stations make up the complete trajectory
2 Yards for the trains are being built (Oratório and Ragueb Choffi)
54 trains will circulate in the system (378 cars)
24.5 km of suspended dual ways will be built
1,000 passengers is the transport capacity of each train
2,000 jobs are being generated
80 km/h is the maximum speed reached by the train
75 seconds will be the headway between the compositions
90 meters is the length of the station platforms
12 to 15 meters is the system height from the ground
1.60 m is the width of the train doors
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IMAGE ILLUSTRATING HOW THE SÃO PAULO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WILL BE AFTER THE OAS WORKS FOR THE GRU AIRPORT
Airport
expertise
For decades, OAS has operated in the construction
and modernization of Brazil’s airports
T
he works being conducted in the São Paulo International Airport are based on years of OAS experience in construction and modernization of airports throughout Brazil. They date back to the 80s, when
the contracts were still closed in Cruzeiros, the official
Brazilian currency before the Real.
Since these beginnings, the “limited time” factor has
always been present in the schedules of the works. “When
a government decides to build or improve an airport, it is
in a hurry”, recalls the engineer Carlos Gleidson da Silva
who, in the beginning of the 90s, helped build the Santa
Maria Airport, in Aracaju. “The local government decided to invest in tourism and ordered a terminal for charter
type aircraft”, he recalls.
Deadline for the works: 3 months. “Our greatest
difficulty was with the finishing material because there
were few options available in the market and the transport logistics was complex since it was done in the
By Bianca Rossoni and Elenita Fogaça
south of the country”, says Silva.
If it is difficult to build in regions far from the big centers, due to the logistics, the airports located in the urban
areas offer other challenges. “Isolating part of the works of
one of the busiest airports in Latin America, without interrupting the flights, required special cares and interface with
all those involved in the operation”, says the Engineering
overseer Rogério Veras, who from 2005 to 2008 worked
in the works of Congonhas, in the south size of São Paulo.
According to Veras, one of the biggest complications
was obtaining authorization from all for execution of the
works. “Airline, control tower, airport professionals, we
had to have the endorsement of everyone to be able to
work”, he reveals.
From north to south of the country, OAS contributed toward the construction or reforms for the fastest
means of transport of Brazil to operate with safety and
without interruptions.
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Lençóis (Bahia)
Date October 1997 to May 1998
Execution of the works, with 144,771.66 square meters,
including infrastructure, superstructure, finishing,
installations, signaling, urbanization, landscaping,
accesses. It is made up of: Taxiway, landing/takeoff runway,
aprons and passenger terminal.
Horácio de Mattos Airport has a 2,082-meter long runway,
being the second biggest runway in the State, with capacity
to receive almost any type of aircraft.
Date March 1982 to January 1983
Execution of the works and services
to expand and reform the passenger
terminal, including foundations,
structure, finishing, installations,
paving, reservoirs and urbanization.
Date October 1982 to January 1983
Execution of the works and services to
reform the restaurant and snacks bar of
the restaurant, including demolitions,
change of coating of the walls and
floors and placing of lining.
Date March 1983 to June 1983
Execution of the works for
complementation of the expansion and
reform of the passenger terminal.
International Airport – Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães (Salvador)
Guararapes International (Recife)
The International Airport of Recife/Guararapes – Gilberto Freyre
is the biggest and most modern airport in the North/Northeast of
Brazil. The airport has an annual capacity of 5 million passengers.
It has the biggest landing and takeoff runway of the Northeast,
with 3,305 meters.
Date June 1999 to March 2000
Reinforcement and widening of the
north aircraft apron.
Goiânia (Goiás)
Date October 1991 to May 1992
Recovery works of the floors in concrete plates of the
maneuver apron and other complementary services.
Presidente Castro Pinto (João Pessoa)
Date November 1984 to February 1985
Execution of works for conclusion of the finishing of the
new passenger terminal, including paving, high-strength
floor, roofing, painting, air-conditioning, substation, generator set, frames, glasses, landscaping and other complementary services.
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Located in the city of Bayeux, metropolitan region of
João Pessoa, it has an area of 8,947.72 square meters
and the current passenger terminal has two floors,
gardens and wide vehicle parking lot. Boarding and
alighting halls, lounge, counters to receive and deliver baggage, lockers, counters for airlines, snacks bar/
restaurant, box for tourist information, stores, car rental
and cab services. It is a medium-sized, international airport of public and military utility.
Santa Genoveva International Airport is located in the
northeastern region of the city, at Capitão Frazão square,
in Santa Genoveva district, 8 km from downtown. It was inaugurated in September 5, 1955 to substitute the modest
airport that had served Goiânia up until then, located in
Setor Aeroporto. However, the aerial operations only started as of June 17, 1956. Since January 7, 1974, it has been
managed by Infraero, which recovered the landing runway
and expanded the passenger terminal in 1981, 1994 and
2000. It has a landing and takeoff runway 2,500 meters
long and 45 meters wide – which holds medium-sized
airplanes like those of the Boeing 737, 707 class, Airbus
A-320 and eventually Boeing 767. Its passenger terminal
has capacity for 600 thousand passengers per year, but
recently, it has been attending to a number much greater
than its operating capacity. It is currently one of the busiest in the Midwest.
Date December 1983 to August 1984
Execution of the reform and expansion
works of the passenger terminal, control
tower, radar room, meteorology and flight
protection, two powerhouses, restaurant/
snacks bar, sewage treatment station, new
road accesses and urbanization.
Date May 1990 to August 1990
Execution of works and services for
construction of a hangar in the general
aviation area.
Date May 1998 to July 1999
Installation and construction of a new
road system for access to the international
airport including a viaduct and accesses.
Date June 1998 to February 2003
Reform, expansion and modernization of
the passenger terminal and complementary
works of the airport, including design, with
the airport in full operating capacity, in
addition to ‘Teca’ (cargo terminal), garage
building, main substation, finger, reservoirs,
aircraft apron and taxiway.
In 1955, the airport was baptized as
“2nd of July” (photo above), the date of
Bahia’s independence, and in 1998, it
won the name of “Deputado Luis Eduardo
Magalhães”, in tribute to the politician who
died the same year. Located in an area of
approximately 7 million square meters,
amidst dunes and native vegetation. The
road access of the airport, which has a
corridor of 800 meters surrounded by
bamboos, has already become one of the
main postcards of the city.
Ubatuba (São Paulo)
Date October 2004 to February 2005
Execution of reform and improvement works
in Ubatuba Airport, including reform services
and repaving of the aircraft maneuver area
and complementary works.
Located in the north coast of São Paulo, the Ubatuba airport receives only small-sized planes.
Oliveira (Minas Gerais)
Date October 1994 to March 1996
Execution of works and services for installation and paving of the airport.
The Oliveira Public Aerodrome was enrolled
in the aerodrome register of the National Civil
Aviation Agency (Anac) in September 3, 2010.
It can receive small and medium-sized planes
and it also has a boarding and arrival terminal.
São Paulo International Airport
Santa Maria (Aracaju)
Date January 2001 to September 2003
Execution of works and services for
reform and expansion of the aircraft
apron, runway and installation of the
ramp equipment yard, in addition to
complementary services.
Date July 1993 to October 1993
Execution of the temporary passenger terminal
to receive charter type aircraft.
Santa Maria Airport, in Aracaju/SE, is located
in the south side of the Sergipe capital, 12 km
from downtown, only public aerodrome that receives regular flights in the State. Daily, about
6 thousand people pass through the terminal.
Over 900 professionals work in the airport complex to meet a monthly demand of 60 thousand
passengers and 14 daily flights.
Its main vocation is directed toward attending
to executives and tourists who travel to Sergipe State for business and leisure. Another
segment are the daily helicopter operations,
transporting employees to the oil rigs, located
on the coast of Sergipe and Alagoas.
Date August 2012 to June 2016
Execution of civil works and civil support,
for construction, expansion and reform
of the passenger terminals, new runways,
aprons, accesses, parking spaces and
road accesses.
This airport is on the way to becoming a
benchmark in Latin America and one of
the main airports worldwide.
Read more in the cover article.
Zumbi dos Palmares (Maceió)
Data May 2002 to May 2008
Works and services of the new passenger terminal, including road access systems, in addition to
expansion of the landing and takeoff runway, expansion of the taxiway, aircraft apron and utilities
center (‘CUT’).
The Maceió/Zumbi dos Palmares International Airport provides users with comfort and beauty,
being the fourth biggest in the Northeast, with a passenger terminal of 22 thousand square
meters, having 24 check-in counters, seven escalators, six elevators, about 600 parking spaces
and four boarding bridges – equipments that allow greater comfort to passengers, since access
to the aircraft is not through the runway.
From the panoramic belvedere, one has a privileged view of the landing and takeoff runways.
The main apron has 11 positions for allocation of aircrafts, 4 of them having boarding bridges,
and the secondary apron (general aviation) also has eight more remote positions.
Congonhas (São Paulo)
Date August 2002 to December 2004
Execution of the works and services for reform,
adaptation and modernization of the passenger
terminal system, including infrastructure and
superstructure services, finishing, various
installations, fingers and paving.
Date October 2004 to October 2007
Execution of works and services to complement the
reform and modernization of the passenger terminal,
road system, runway system and aircraft apron and
elaboration of designs.
Date March 2006 to September 2006
Recovery of landing and takeoff runway 17R/35L.
Date May 2007 to September 2007
Execution of the works for recovery of the Main
Landing runway 17R/35L, including geometrical reconformation and repaving of the main runway with
total length of 1,940 meters and width of 45 meters
and complementary works in the runway system.
The São Paulo/Congonhas Airport is one of the busiest
in Brazil. Even with the reduction in the number of
flights, it still has a high traffic.
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PHOTOS JEFFERSON NASCIMENTO
SUSTAINABILITY
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It is something
significant and
that is having a
greater national
and international
repercussion.
Judson Mariotti, Project director
questions were readily answered, without blinking, without fear of erring”, recalled Bernardino.
With the approval, Conest – OAS consortium with
Odebrecht – obtained authorization from Petrobras to
use the new system in the construction of Atmospheric
Distillation Units (‘UDAs’) 11 and 12 of Refinaria Abreu e
Lima – Rnest. “We were able to change a consolidated
practice, something that is not easy in Petrobras, a company that places a high value in the following of established norms and standards. The feeling is one of pride
and realization in seeing something that is completely
innovative being implemented and has paid off”, commented the UDA Commissioning manager, OAS employee, engineer Jorge Raimundo de Araújo, direct leader of
Bernardino and the main encourager of the project.
OUT OF 26 MILLION LITERS OF WATER SPENT, WITH THE NEW SYSTEM,
ONLY 200 THOUSAND LITERS WILL BE NEEDED FOR TESTS AND CLEANING
An example
for the world
Rnest team, in Pernambuco, revolutionizes and
creates the first sustainable commissioning system
of the planet that will drastically reduce water use
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n March 13, 2012, the Coordinator for Commissioning
of the Atmospheric Distillation Unit (‘UDA’), the technician Bernardino Nilton do Nascimento, OAS employee
at Refinaria Abreu e Lima (Rnest), in Pernambuco, after a
long meeting, celebrated the approval, by Petrobras, of
the new piping internal cleaning process and hydrostatic
test of the UDA, starting what he would call Sustainable
Commissioning, the first in the planet. At that moment,
all were aware that a revolutionary system was being born
that would break one of the biggest paradigms of electromechanical construction, which is chemical cleaning
inside the pipes.
This new method drastically reduces the amount of
water used in the hydrostatic tests and cleaning of pipes
in refineries, in industrial, naval plants, gas pipelines and
By Marcio Markman
other electromechanical assembly works. More than
saving water, the new system allow conducting tests and
cleaning during assembly of the equipments, assuring a
significant time reduction of a works.
It was in an office in the city of Recife that Bernardino presented the creation to a group of technicians and
engineers from Petrobras. After about two hours explaining about the Sustainable Commissioning, followed by
countless questions from the Contracting Party’s Technical Committee, what was only a study become a reality.
“We were in a room with several engineers from Petrobras, from the area of Engineering and Environment.
They asked countless questions and, in the end, they approved. One of the things that I remember well was that
one of them said there was no way of saying ‘no’ if all the
Water and time saving
The idea of Sustainable Commissioning was born
from the need to use, through the former method, 26
million liters of water to conduct hydrostatic tests and to
clean the piping of the UDAs being built by Conest.
It happens that Refinaria Abreu e Lima (Rnest) is located in the Northeastern region of the country, where
water shortage is historical and which is currently experiencing the worst drought in the last 50 years. With the
new system, idealized by Bernardino, only 200 thousand
liters of water will be needed. Exactly the capacity of the
Water Treatment Station (‘ETA’) built specifically for the
Sustainable Commissioning. It is the water from this ETA
that will be used in the hydrostatic tests as well as in the
BERNARDINO NILTON DO NASCIMENTO, AUTHOR OF THE SYSTEM THAT
FOUND THE SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF ALL HIS SUPERIORS
IN OAS AND PRAISES IN PETROBRAS
cleaning, with the advantage of, instead of being disposed
of, undergoing a purification process to be reutilized. The
drop from 26 million liters using the former method to
the 200 thousand liters of the Sustainable Commissioning represents a saving of about 99% of water. “The situation being experienced by the Northeast reinforces
this savings we are obtaining. It is something significant
and that is having a very great national and international repercussion”, remarked the OAS
Project director, Engineer Judson
Mariotti.
In the installation of a new
refinery, similar to Rnest, the
forecast is that, using the new
commissioning method, the
water consumption will be 1.5
million liters against the 1 billion liters required to conduct
the hydrostatic tests and clean
the piping of all the units using
the traditional commissioning
method. This volume is equivalent to the consumption
of one week by a city
like Recife, with
about 1.5 million
inhabitants.
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JUDSON MARIOTTI, PROJECT DIRECTOR
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The benefits of Sustainable
Commissioning go beyond
water savings. This solution
represents positive results
in other aspects of the works
ESTEBAN ORTIZ, RESPONSIBLE FOR COSTS/PLANNING,
AND THIAGO DUARTE, FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBLE
DIVERSITY OF PRODUCTS AND
SOCIAL PROJECTS OF PERNAMBUCO
Positive results
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The benefits of Sustainable Commissioning go beyond water savings. This solution represents positive
results in other aspects of the works. Instead of using
chemical products to clean the piping, the new method
uses the blasting process, using a microencapsulated
sponge acting on the inner surface of the pipes. To remove the sponge remains, a device called PIG is passed,
which brushes the walls of the pipes. A borescope films
the piping’s interior, to ensure that no sponge residue
remains and, finally, a micro-sprinkler throws a spray
with anticorrosive agents able to leave the piping protected for two years. “In the former method, it was only
after mechanical completion that one could start cleaning the lines, while in this new method, everything will
already be clean once the piping is assembled. It is
something that represents an anticipation of at least
six months in this type of work”, explained the Contract
manager, Eduardo Borges, a type of “godfather” of the
Sustainable Commissioning.
Due to all these factors, the Sustainable Commissioning system has awakened the interest of the entire
world. There are currently 365 refineries in operation in
the planet. In all of them, in case of expansion or maintenance, there is the need to conduct hydrostatic tests and
cleaning. The tendency is for the experience of Conest’s
works in Rnest to gradually be implemented in refineries
in other countries.
Note that the Sustainable Commissioning has allowed, for the first time in the history of Construction and
Assembly, the cleaning of piping to be concluded before
mechanical completion of an Industrial Unit.
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Social actions with the community
Variety of products
The Sustainable Commissioning system is not
the only differential of Conest’s work in Rnest.
As of March 2011, the Recycling Program was
implanted, a series of social actions that have
benefited the environment and communities
surrounding the Suape Port Industrial Complex,
where Rnest is located. And the way they have
been executed, the projects represent to the consortium, in addition to the image gain, a economy
of costs in the works.
The program reutilizes organic and inorganic
residues in the works and in Vila Residencial where
3,800 of the 10 thousand Conest employees live.
What was formerly waste is converted into fertilizers, stationery items and even clothes. “Before the
implementation, all the residues were destined to
the sanitary landfills. We paid to transport and to
destine the residues. These actions were developed with the environment and cost reduction in
mind”, explains Esteban Ortiz, responsible for the
OAS Costs/Planning in the works. “The intention is
for, while the work exists, the program to also exist.”
The organic residues generated by the refectories
of Conest and Vila Residencial are the basis of the
Verde Vida [Green Life] project. Remains from the
meals of the employees are taken to the composting center building Vila Residencial and there become fertilizers. “All the figures of this works are
The variety of products is impressive. There are
blocks, notebooks, notepads, pouches, backpacks,
beanbags, hats, portraits, in addition to a collection of
clothes developed by the designer Diego Rodrigo. The
items he created were presented in a fashion parade in
Vila Residencial, in which the Acauã dance group, from
Olinda, was present, Olinda also benefiting from the
project, whose recycled material was the raw material
for the fantasies used in the Carnival this year.
In addition to these projects, Conest puts into practice other sustainability actions in the Rnest works. The
e-cups are aimed at reducing the use of plastic cups,
with the distribution of squeezes and biodegradable
cups. The result is the reduction of 40% in the number
of plastic cups. While reutilization of water from the
air-conditioners is done with tubes installed in the devices that collect water, which is later reutilized in cleaning
the environments or in irrigation of the gardens. “Each
air conditioner releases approximately 20 liters of water per day. There are 600 devices throughout the works.
Monthly, we save about 260 thousand liters of water”,
argues Ortiz.
All the projects received customer recognition
from Rnest, Petrobras, and others have won prizes
like the Sales & Marketing Director Association. “It is
something completely different. It is a cycle good,
commented the OAS contract manger at the works,
Eduardo Borges.
very great. Imagine how much residues we produce
from breakfast, lunch and dinner in Conest refectories. Today, we compost 50% of the organic residue
produced in the works. The goal is for us to reach
100%, remarks Ortiz. “We were able to obtain about
600 kilos of organic residues daily, which generate
about 30 kilos of fertilizers/day, used in Conest’s
gardens or supplied to partner association”, complements Thiago Durte, financial administrative responsible of OAS at the works.
The next step of Green Life is to install another
composting plant. The intension is for the new unit to
continue being used by the community, even after the
works by OAS and Odebrecht have been delivered.
While the Dupla Face and Costurando Vidas
projects reutilize materials used in the works to confection souvenirs, stationary materials and clothes.
From a convention with the Paiva Artisan Association, all cardboard disposed of, to be changed every
three months by the field personnel and six months
by the administrative figure.
Jorge Hirata
expertise
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Line 5 brings
emblematic works
Construction of the São Paulo subway stretch in the South Side
will being two deeper structures of the metropolitan: a new station
at 56 meters from the surface and with ventilation at 59 meters.
By Nathália Barbosa
AERIAL VIEW OF SANTA CRUZ STATION
THE NEW SANTA CRUZ STATION WILL BE THE DEEPEST OF THE SÃO PAULO SUBWAY NETWORK.
IT WILL REACH THE DEPTH OF 56 METERS, EQUIVALENT TO EXCAVATING A 20-STOREY BUILDING
Jorge Hirata
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ão Paulo cannot stop. The great spatial dimension
of the city requires even greater investments in
urban mobility. The response is expansion of the
Subway, a task that all falls to OAS. Currently, the company is part of Consórcio Metropolitano 5, made up of OAS,
Odebrecht and Queiroz Galvão, responsible for Lot 7 of
the expansion of Line 5 – Lilac.
Once delivered to the population, in 2016, Line 5 should
transport 650 thousand passengers per day, more than doubling its total capacity, from Capão Redondo to Largo Treze,
and the six stations in operation in the Lilac Line will receive,
together, in average, 254 thousand passengers on business
days, according to official data from the subway.
Line 5 extends for 20 km, starting in Capão Redondo.
Currently, the works to extend Line 5 advance from Largo
Treze up to the Dionísio da Costa Ventilation and Emergency Exist well. The last station will be Chácara Klabin, from
where the trains will connect to Line 2 – Green. In addition,
Santa Cruz station will make the connection of Line 5 with
Line 1 – Blue. While with Line 9 – Emerald Line of CPTM,
the connection occurs in Santo Amaro Station, allowing
the entire population from areas like M’Boi Mirim to have
access to the city without needing to go to Pinheiros.
The new section is developed underground beneath Av.
Adolfo Pinheiro and Av. Santo Amaro and crosses Av. dos
Bandeirantes, where the trajectory of 6 km of Lot 7 of the
works beings, comprising the civil works of the road tunnels,
construction and finishing of two stations in tunnels (new
Santa Cruz Station and expansion of the existing Chácara
Klabin Station), three Ventilation and Emergency Exit wells
Once delivered to the
population, in 2016, Line 5
should transport 650 thousand
passengers per day
(Botucatu, Jorge de Melo and Dionísia da Costa), and installation of the permanent way’s superstructure for these 6 km.
The line ends 500 meters after Chácara Klabin station.
One of the characteristics of the works of Lot 7 is that
it is developed in a part of the city full of important health
equipments. The line will be near the following hospitals:
Servidor Público, Alvorada, São Paulo, Edmundo Vasconcelos and Santa Cruz, in addition to the entities Associação de Assistência à Criança Deficiente (AACD [Handicapped Child Assistance Association]), Fundação Dorina
Nowill and Grupo de Apoio ao Adolescente e à Criança
com Câncer (Graacc [Group for Support to the Teenager and Child with Cancer]). Not to mention the following
malls: Santa Cruz and Ibirapuera, Colégio Arquidiocesano and two bus terminals.
For this, according to José Ricardo Cunha de Mello
Figueiredo, OAS production manager in the Consórcio
Metropolitano 5 works, respect for the public and the
community is essential. “The works is in a region with
great flow of people in the streets near the worksites.
And we are near Instituto Dorina Nowill, which attends
to the visually handicapped. It is essential to pay all the
attention to these people. We are the intruders”, justifies
Figueiredo. He says that he insisted on a structure made
up of professionals from social communication that organizes scheduled visits by the community to the worksite.
“We bring the community into the works, providing understanding of the care with the district and the noise we
cause in the region”, he says. “When the community takes
part in the works, the interaction is very useful”.
Technical quality
Those who have had the opportunity of visiting the
works could verify the technical quality used. More than
this, they noticed that it is an emblematic works. After all,
once it is ready, the new Santa Cruz station will be the
deepest of the São Paulo subway network. It will reach a
depth of 56 meters, equivalent to excavating a 20-storey
building. The operators are already excavating the well
that will connect to the tunnels of the new station and to
the tunnels that will make the connection to the existing
station. According to Figueiredo, in all, there will be three
tunnels to connect the new Santa Cruz station to the cur-
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Once more the tatuzão
THE WORKS HAS NO ROOM FOR MISTAKES, BECAUSE IT CANNOT CAUSE
ANY DAMAGE TO THE EXISTING STRUCTURE AND ITS NEIGHBORS
The 6 km of tunnels of Section 7 will be built using
the technology of an old friend of the São Paulo subway:
the tatuzão (shield). The works will use the TBM (Tunnel
Boring Machine) excavation technique. While the stations
and Ventilation & Emergency Exits use the NATM (New
Austrian Tunneling Method), used in works that require
very wide excavations, as is the case of the subway stations
– the section of Santa Cruz Station, for instance, reaches
240 square meters with dimensions of 20 meters wide by
16 meters high. In NATM, the massif becomes the main
structural element in function of its capacity to self-sustain and allow installation of the support. After the excavation, shotcrete is used as support, combined with other
elements like screens, metallic crankshafts, anchor bolts
and fibers in the cement, to balance the loads that occur
during the excavation and to maintain stability of the excavation until execution of definitive coating.
When the community takes part in the
works, the interaction is very useful.
José Ricardo Cunha de Mello Figueiredo, OAS production manager
Works reveals vestiges of Colonial Brazil
As important as the good engineering of excavation
of the four tunnels that are part of the works in the Porto
Maravilha project, in the Port Region of Rio de Janeiro, is
the detailed program of archeological survey conducted
by OAS in the site, in name of the Porto Novo consortium.
The work started before start of the works in the
worksite of 5 million square meters, with excavation
and monitoring processes of the area. A team of 40
professionals, ranging from archeologists, historians
geographers and managers have already collected
over 50 thousand items in Praça Mauá and in Rua
Primeiro de Março.
In Mauá, materials were revealed like earthenware
ceramic, stoneware porcelain, glass and metal from
the end of the XVIII century. While Primeiro de Março
brought to light structures linked to the Arsenal of the
Navy, dated back to the XIX century. Even a cannon from
the XVIII century that must have supported the lines of
Morro da Conceição was found 2.5 meters below the
level of Praça Mauá, in the middle of the fill layer.
All the items found are in good state of preservation
and are being stored in the archeological lab of Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Uerje), where they
will be studied, catalogued and kept.
According to Figueiredo, TBM, in turn, is a mechanized technique that is little flexible to adaptations to the
geometry of the trains, has high purchase and transport
costs, but has greater safety conditions in the excavation, quality in the excavated surface, greater excavation
speed and causes less vibrations in the excavated massif.
This construction technique is considered in tunnels with
length exceeding 3 km.
According to Figueiredo, the great differential of TBM
is that it is ideal for works in urban environments, when
there is need to pass beneath the avenues, buildings and
structures in the subsoil. “It is a much more silent machine, that causes less disturbances. In the context of a
city, it is highly welcome”, he claims.
Wind to loose sight of
The works of Lot 7 also brought another great challenge: construction of the deepest structure of the São
Paulo city subway network, which is the João de Melo ‘VSE’
(Ventilation & Emergency Exit), concluded in February 2,
2013, reaching a depth of 58.67 meters and with only 12.80
meters in diameter. The reduced diameter of the well is a
complicating factor. “Personnel, machinery, services and
support equipments (ladder, ventilation, compressed air
networks, water and water sewage) coexisted during the
works in a very small space. We are therefore proud to say
that we concluded this works without any occurrence”,
states the engineer. According to him, for this, there was
a strict planning that involved a broad analysis of the risks
and preventive measures, which included training of the
operators, control of access to the excavation, use of sound
resources to warn the descent and rise of suspended loads,
daily checking using checklist of all equipments involved in
the excavation, mainly the crane, and daily authorization to
allow access of workers to their activities.
Figueiredo explains that the Ventilation & Emergency
Exit is an essential structure of the subway system. “The
Subway has as concept installing one station in each kilometer and a ventilation of 500 meters each because,
when the train enters the tunnel, it causes a violent air
displacement, as if it were a piston inside a tube. There
is need to collect this displaced air and throw it out of the
environment. At the same time, the air inside the tunnel
is renewed”, the engineer teaches.
The excavation of a well with such characteristics
reinforces the concern with safety of the workers during
the movement of suspended loads, like screens, removal of excavated material and concrete. “In the Jorge de
Melo VSE, 12 thousand cubic meters of earth, equivalent to 900 truck trips, were removed. Six or seven people worked the entire time down there. Therefore the
loads are only lowered or raised after the sound warning
from the spotter, who checks the safe distancing of all
operators”, says Figueiredo.
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rent. One of them will be excavated beneath the existing
station, converging the bottom slab of the former station
into the ceiling of the connection tunnel between the former and new stations of the Lilac Line.
“To do this, there will be need to monitor the excavation with precision, to assure the least movement of the
land and structures. It will be a very delicate, attentive and
careful tunnel execution”, says the engineer. The works has
no room for mistakes, because it cannot cause any damage
to the existing structure. “Imagine what it would be to have
to interrupt train traffic in Line 1”, remarks Figueiredo.
Mandacaru tunnel cuts
through the Alagoan hinterland
OAS is present in the Alagoan Canal do Sertão,
biggest infrastructure works of Alagoas. The construction will allow the population to have continuous access to water for human consumption and agriculture.
According to Nivaldo Lira Castro, operational
overseer of the Alagoas Area, “the Canal will be important to generate income and employment and to
fix the hinterland in its habitat”.
OAS answers for Section 3, of 28 km, which
passes through Inhapi, where it meets the Mandacaru Tunnel, with length of 2,680 meters, uniform section of 49.13 m2 and minimum depth of 17 meters.
The structure is part of the works of the Raceway of the Alagoas Sertão and will take water from
Lago do Moxotó [Lake] to the hinterland. It was the
solution to overcome the topography of that region
made of small hills.
“The method for opening the tunnel is the NATM
(New Austrian Tunneling Method) and is being done
using a Boomer 262 drill (two-arm hydraulic jumbo),
together with the use of explosives”, comments Castro. Even thus, “the level of difficult of the works is
high, due to variation of the rock fractures and limited access for removal of the excavated material”.
Therefore, the preliminary boring is essential.
“The preliminary studies showed that the land has
all types of rocks and that to improve the sustaining conditions of the works, there will be need to
include additional structural elements to the concrete, like embedded metallic trusses, crankshafts
and tie rods”, states José Maria Gomes de Aragão,
manager of Mandacaru.
According to him, the so-called entrance and
exit of the tunnel have been executed. The excavation per se started in March 2013, with the constant
presence of a geologist and a mining engineer,
which assures precision in analysis of the volume to
be removed, in addition to an average progress rate
of 6 meters per day.
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Haitians in
OAS worksites
HELPERS, BRICKLAYERS AND CARPENTER ARE SOME OF THE FUNCTIONS PERFORMED BY THE FOREIGNERS
By Bianca Rossoni
It is a beautiful initiative, we are holding
meetings to creative hiring incentives.
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They left Haiti in search of work to help their
families and, besides the registered worker’s
card, obtained respect and dignity
Nilton Vicente, contract manager
creative hiring incentives”, he reveals.
Few have permanent vista, majority were granted
visa of 180 days, which can be extended more easily and
faster due to the fact that they are working. OAS permanently monitors the renewal of the documents. The new
employees, aged 20 to 35 years, are hired with registered
worker’s cards and receive the same benefits to which the
Brazilians are entitled.
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THE FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBLE CASSIA WALESKA SILVA WITH THE TEAM OF HAITIANS, WHO TODAY TOTAL 52 EMPLOYEES
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anuary 2013 marked the start of a new life for a group
of 15 Haitians, today OAS employees. The 50 young
men, lead by Espera Edwig, aged 26 years, helper in
general services, one of the few who speak Portuguese,
reached the worksite of the Consórcio Viário Zona Leste,
in Itaquera, in search of work and assistance for their families, still living in Haiti, island located in Central America.
With difficulties in selecting people endeavored in
the work, the Financial Administrative responsible of he
works, Cássia Waleska Silva, decided to believe in the
group and, after researching the documentation of the
Haitians, hired 15 of them for an experience period. “The
OAS team embraced the cause and thrilled everyone, we
went head on and with courage. We made this happen, it
is being great and we are all happy’, she says. The contract manager, Nilton Vicente, arrived at the works after
the hiring and approved the work. “I’m all for it and I support the beautiful initiative, we are holding meetings to
The main difficulty is communication, majority speak
French or Creole (local dialect, derived from French),
some have knowledge of English and Spanish, however, few speak “Brazilian” (as the Haitians refer to Portuguese). During the integration, meeting on occupational safety and quality, environmental preservation and
rights of employees, the Haitian Espera Edwig listened
and translated the information to his mates. To improve
the relationship, facilitate cohabitation and understanding of the requests, the OAS School is studying the possibility of opening a room to teach them Portuguese.
According to the person in charge of the Personnel Dept., Agnaldo Jesus dos Santos, the Haitians start
working together until they know the works and become
acquainted with the activities. About 90% of them work
as helpers, others, who already have registered worker’s
cards, perform bricklaying and carpentry services. Those
with special skills are sent to the section compatible
with their aptitude.
It is the case of Pierre Sergo, aged 35 years, residing
in Brazil for little more than a year, who works as quality assistant. Living in a country where the inhabitants
must opt between working or studying, Sergo attended two years of Law and came to Brazil in search of job
and study opportunities. Married to a teacher living in
France, Sergo wants to finish Law School and attend a
specialization course to have more opportunities to help
his parents and other Haitians.
The team also has other university graduates, like
Guy Benjamin, aged 26 years, who also attended two
years of Law School and wants to bring his family to
Brazil. He gets emotional when he says that a “thank
you” to OAS is not enough to express what he feels.
Another university graduate is Francisco Gamison,
aged 24 years, who attended three years of Mechanical
Engineering in Haiti.
The Haitians show great willingness to learn, like
Kedner Jean Baptiste, 25. He attends a computer course
and to get around the difficulties of the language uses
online translators to communicate with the teacher.
Baptiste was able to bring his mother and pregnant wife
to the country. He baptized his daughter Cássia, in tribute to the one responsible for his hiring at OAS.
The initiative exceeded the expectations and today
there are 52 Haitians working in Consórcio Viário Zona
Leste, scheduled for conclusion in April 2014. The works
by OAS will improve the flow of traffic in the region and
benefit the 5 million residents, in addition to attending
to the public of the Corinthians stadium, mainly in the
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International
recognition
On behalf of security
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OAS Defesa works in the proposal to install the Integrated Inter-agency Land Operation Coordination System
(‘SisCOTI’), within the Protect Project, of the Brazilian
Army, which was presented during the fair in consortium
with the companies Módulo solutions for GRC, headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, and Rafael Advanced Defense
Systems, from Israel. According to the consultant General Luiz Peret, “to be in LAAD with big companies form
the Public Defense and Security sector was without doubt
a mark. OAS Defesa has much to contribute toward improving the operational conditions of the Brazilian Armed
Forces and externally project its security products and
systems”. During the event, the stand of OAS Defesa was
visited by Army General Enzo Martins Peri, Commander
of the Army, and by General Joaquim Silva e Luna, Chief
of Staff of the Army, among other authorities.
OAS ARCHIVE
AS Defesa, company that integrates defense, public
security and civil defense systems, took part for the
first time in LAAD – Defense and Security, International
Defense and Security Fair, held in April, at Riocentro, Rio
de Janeiro. The event is foremost in the sector in Latin
America and unites biannually companies form the world
over, specialized in providing equipments, services and
technology to the Armed Forces, Police, Special Forces,
in addition to corporate security.
“We had the competence and luck of our team presenting a full solution of the system that meets the
premises of Projeto Protejer [Protect Project] in its totality to Commanders from the Brazilian Army and from
several Armed Forces from countries we are present in
through OAS”, says José Lunguinho, managing director
of OAS Defesa.
RAFAEL DALTRO (LEFT), FROM OAS, RECEIVES AWARD
ON BEHALF OF THE CONCESSIONÁRIA PORTO NOVO
OAS ARCHIVE
O
he Porto Maravilha Urban Operation, executed by
Concessionária Porto Novo (OAS, Odebrecht and
Carioca Engenharia), was selected among the top ten
public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Latin America and
Caribbean region by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Ban and biggest global
development institution geared toward the private sector in developing countries. Funding through securities
(Cepacs) was the highlight in the selection of Porto Maravilha as project of unprecedented financial engineering
recognition. The projects have as premise to contribute
toward improving the daily lives of millions of people in
emerging markets, through examples of successful actions in the provisioning of infrastructure services for the
population. The award was delivered on the 18th of April,
in Washington (US).
OAS Site
A
ttentive to the modern communication tools, OAS invested in the
upgrading of its site, which will now have news on all OAS companies, novelties on new contracts, progress of works, curiosities, among
other subjects. With a new look, the information will be transmitted
clearly, directly and objectively. The issues of OAS Magazine can also
be read online.
Biodiversity Increase
C
GENERAL LUIZ PERET PRESENTS OAS DEFESA’S SOLUTIONS TO THE GENERAL
ARMY COMMANDER ENZO MARTINS PERI
onsórcio Rios da Baixada (OAS and Carioca Engenharia) is
responsible for the Biodiversity Increase Project. The aim of
this work is to sue plant species already present and species that
will be introduced through transplants. As a result, there is an
emergence of new fauna species, attracted by the new elements
of the flora introduced in this region. Environmental awareness
has another great point of interest, since the change in scenario
has awakened the curiosity and engagement of the community
of Belford Roxo municipality, in Rio de Janeiro.
Social example
A
rena das Dunas, in Natal, is the first works by OAS to be recommended by Bureau Veritas to obtain SA8000 – International Standard of Social Responsibility. Since August 2012, the consortium’s team has performed
awareness and information actions, like training, theatrical presentations and
distribution of communication materials, which reinforce the importance of
implementing the standard, focusing on eight items: respect of working hours,
right to union freedom, child labor, moral harassment, racial discrimination,
forced labor, correct profits and deductions, in addition to safety and health.
The Social Responsibility team continues to work toward increasing the number of works to obtain the standard.
OAS ARCHIVE
OAS ARCHIVE
OAS DEFESA STAND AT THE LAAD DEFENSE AND SECURITY FAIR:
PRESENTATION OF THE PROTECT PROJECT SOLUTION
Top of mind
O
AS Empreendimentos received, in April, the
Top of Mind Salvador award in the Home &
Apartment Construction category, for the fourth
time in a row. This year, OAS Empreendimentos
has a recall rate two times greater than the one
in the second position. In its 18th edition, the
award is one of the most coveted by companies
form the most varied sectors of the economy as
it reflects the opinion of the public, interviewed
on the streets of the Bahia capital. “The award
increases even more our responsibility since remaining in the first place requires excelling in all
areas, from conception of the designs, quality in
construction and success in delivering the undertakings”, states Pedro Aragão, Bahia regional
director of OAS.
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Awareness and respect
T
he OAS Institute, responsible for the company’s
social actions, is promoting in 2013 awareness drives
on Racial Equality with the aim of reinforcing the equality
of rights and respect for differences, in addition to informing the historical importance of the black race in the construction of our country. The programming includes theatrical plays for the communities surrounding the works
and employees. In 2012, the theme was sexual abuse of
children and teenagers. The initiative was aligned with
the National Campaign, promoted by the Human Rights
Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic.
Executive Training
O
n the 17th of May, OAS started the Executive Development Program, in partnership with Fundação Dom Cabral.
The program is aimed at developing business and personal managerial skills, raising the level of excellence
and qualification of the participants and contributing toward obtaining sustainable results for the company. There
will be 224 credit hours, divided into 7 modules of 32 hours each, out of which 16 hours are face-to-face and 16
hours are distance learning.
OAS ARCHIVE
Great investments
O
Innovation on the asphalt
O
AS innovates in the paving of public roads, using old tires crushed with machined asphalt
mass. The technology reduces the impact caused
by improper disposal of the material, promoting
greater comfort, savings and safety for users, in addition to performance and greater durability compared to a road paved with conventional asphalt.
The average time of road preservation increases
from 3.5 years to 10 years. Consórcio Novo Asfalto
was responsible for paving the roads of 80 districts
of Rio de Janeiro, among them Avenida Brasil. To
have a notion of the magnitude, it is like paving 655
Maracanã Stadiums.
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AS received in the beginning of March, in New
York, the “Latin American
sponsor of the Year Award”,
main category of the “Americas Deal of The Year”, granted
annually by Project Finance
magazine and regarded as
the main award of the industry
in the international calendar.
The ceremony celebrates the
great investments in projects in Latin America. OAS
won for its contribution toward the development
and innovation of the Latin American infrastructure
industry. In 2012, through OAS Investimentos, it
structured investments of five big projects: Arena Fonte Nova, Arena das Dunas and Arena do Grêmio, in addition to Porto Maravilha, in Brazil, and Via Parque Rímac,
in Lima, Peru. Invepar, of which OAS is a partner, was also
awarded – in the Transport category –, with the Via Parque
Rímac project, municipal concession that represents the
main works of Lima city, contributing toward mobility and
improvements in the traffic of the Peruvian capital.