IEME Brasil held on April 13th, in the Address Hotel convention room, in São Paulo, a meeting of the company’s key employees to align procedures, in accordance with the standards required by the certifications obtained by IEME. The objective of the meeting was to raise awareness among leaders about the need to meet the requirements of the Integrated Management System (ISO 9001, ISO 17020 and ISO 17025), as a way of improving the internal flows of the organization’s management processes, interconnecting the company’s areas based on the quality manuals, procedures, instructions and forms already defined. The meeting dealt with the Certifications of Consulting Engineering and Urban Development (ISO 9001), Accredited Infrastructure Inspection (ISO 17020) and LAEDE (ISO 17025).

The meeting was led by engineer and consultant Octavio Camerini, who has been a specialist in railway engineering (rolling stock) and quality auditing (automotive) for 38 years, having coordinated one of the first ISO 9001 certifications in Brazil. Camerini is also an accredited inspection manager (ISO IEC 17020 standard) for highway and railway projects and a member of the Brazilian Association of Railway Preservation (ABPF). The engineer explained that the meeting meets the obligation for continuous recycling of leaders and employees in the Certified and Accredited Quality Management System.

“The meeting was very participatory and the next steps involve specific meetings with managers and their teams, where the electronic path of the Management System documents will be presented, aiming to better disseminate knowledge of the procedures and their records”, said Camerini. These documents, added the expert, “must be carefully analyzed by the areas, to adapt to the needs and reality of the practices adopted, but complying with the requirements of the standards involved, which represent technical and administrative contractual requirements between IEME, its customers, its suppliers and Inmetro”.

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Photos: IEME

Photos: IEME

Photos: IEME

Photos: IEME

 

 

Safety and optimization of preventive maintenance are priorities for IEME Brasil and LAEDE when it comes to evaluating their customers’ metro rail systems. To achieve this, the company relies on cutting-edge technologies and methodologies, the result of exchanges and monitoring of studies in some of the most advanced technological centers on the subject. One of the resources adopted by IEME for this purpose is the instrumented wheelset calibrator, studied in Italy by the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sapienza in Rome and the Polytechnic of Milan, institutions visited by the company.

But what is the instrumented wheelset calibrator?

“The calibrator is a bench designed to apply existing loads on the permanent track onto an instrumented wheel set with the aim of correlating wheel-rail contact forces and deformations. To this end, electrical resistance strain gauges, hydraulic jacks, actuators and various load cells are used, in addition to a structure capable of supporting such loads”, explains engineer Tiago Juliani, Engineering coordinator at IEME Brasil.

There is a variety of information obtained by the calibrated instrumented wheelset. With the passage of the instrumented wheelset, the wheel-rail contact forces and the L/V relationship (lateral force / vertical force of the wheel) are obtained along the entire path of the train, which may indicate problems both on the permanent track as well as in the rolling stock, such as geometric imperfections in the track, welding defects, failures in railway components, poor maintenance of tracks and wheels, among others. Furthermore, the operational risk of the line is assessed with the L/V ratio.

Therefore, the calibrator is adopted whenever a new measurement campaign is carried out with the instrumented wheelset and, if the same previously instrumented wheelset is used, there has been a certain mileage between one campaign and another.

With the presence of President Santiago Peña and members of his government, including the Minister of Public Works and Communications (MOPC), Claudia Centurión, Paraguay inaugurated last Sunday, 3/3, the emblematic Heroes del Chaco Bridge, a cable-stayed structure that connects the capital, Asunción, to the Chaco’i region. The project dates back to 2013, but construction only began in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, employing around 1,500 workers in the region. Once completed, the work should receive around 10,000 vehicles per day, relieving traffic congestion currently on the Remanso bridge, opened in 1978.

The bridge stretches 603 meters over the Paraguay River and has two pillars of 300 meters each with two sails supported by 23 stays on each side. It is the first bridge with four lanes for vehicle circulation, a pedestrian path and a cycle path. Together with access roads and viaducts, the complex totals 7 kilometers from Costanera Norte to its junction with the Remanso-Puerto Falcón section.

In addition to standing out as a new icon in the landscape of Asunción, the bridge also represents a great leap for Paraguayan engineering and for the companies of the Consórcio Unión, formed by CDD Construcciones and Constructora Heisecke. “This work symbolizes a transcendental step, it is the first bridge built by a Paraguayan company, which knew how to rise to the challenge we face in the country. Today we have absolutely nothing to envy an international company, nothing”, said president Santiago Peña.

IEME Brasil and LAEDE had a small but important participation in the work, by carrying out all static and dynamic tests to assess the safety of the structure and allow it to be opened to traffic. It was the first dynamic test of its kind carried out in Paraguay, a decision that shows the seriousness of the current Paraguayan government in relation to its enterprises and infrastructure projects.

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Puente Héroes del Chaco – Photo: IEME Brasil

Puente Héroes del Chaco – Photo: IEME Brasil

Puente Héroes del Chaco – Photo: IEME Brasil

Puente Héroes del Chaco – Photo: IEME Brasil

Puente Héroes del Chaco – Photo: BNamericas

Puente Héroes del Chaco – Photo: Creative Commons licenses by-sa 40 Overkill53

IEME / LAEDE technical team installing sensors on the Ponte del Chaco. Photo: Shirley Juliani Reproduction

IEME / LAEDE technical team carrying out the load test on the Ponte del Chaco. Photo: Shirley Juliani Reproduction

IEME / LAEDE technical team installing sensors on the Ponte del Chaco. Photo: Shirley Juliani Reproduction

 

 

The National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (Inmetro) has just concluded its annual audit and revalidated the status of IEME Brasil Accredited Inspection Body (OIA), obtained at the beginning of 2023 and now renewed. The revalidation ensures IEME’s compliance with the requirements of the International Accredited Inspection Standard ISO 17020, ordinances from Inmetro and inspection agencies (such as ANTT and Artesp), Inmetro procedures and technical standards applicable to road infrastructure projects. Accreditation is based on a double audit system: an auditor independent of the organization and Inmetro itself.

According to railway and automotive engineer Octavio Camerini, management systems auditor for over 25 years and advisor to the company in the technical revalidation process, the accreditation was confirmed for the scope of inspection of highway and railway projects, without the need for authorization from Inmetro to issue inspection certificates. “For the scope of inspection of highway and railway works, it is necessary to involve Inmetro for sample technical monitoring of initial inspections, before issuing the respective certificates, which is part of the normal accreditation process”, he explained. According to him, Inmetro praised IEME’s technical and administrative competence in the accredited inspection of infrastructure projects and made few recommendations for improvement, focused on the management system.

For the specialist, this official and international recognition demonstrates that “IEME follows the most demanding and contemporary requirements of technical and administrative competence for Inspection Bodies of Projects and Works of Highways and Railways, guaranteeing the technical conformity of the project or infrastructure work , its budget forecast and its schedule”.

The most developed countries in the world have already been working with Accredited Inspection for 10 years, guaranteeing the impartial evaluation of the project or work and contributing to the agility and compliance of the implementation of mobility infrastructure in the country. The accreditation obtained by IEME recognizes not only the implementation of ISO 17020 and Inmetro requirements, but also the concessionaires’ procedures, which are gradually demanding compliance with acceptable standards of corporate governance (transparency and anti-corruption practices), social responsibility (inclusiveness) and environmental responsibility (prevention of environmental impacts of the project and infrastructure work).

The housing situation in Brazil is worrying. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in its 2022 Census, reports that there are around 16 million people living in more than 11 thousand favelas in the country. Furthermore, more than 236 thousand people live on the streets of Brazilian cities. The housing deficit reaches 6 million units and more than 5 million homes are irregular – they are houses in slums, squatters, communities and irregular subdivisions without access to basic sanitation and electricity. At least 1 in every thousand Brazilians has nowhere to live.

To minimize the problem, states and city halls find support in Federal Law No. 13,465/2017, which establishes Urban Land Regularization (Reurb). This is a comprehensive process, which involves legal, urban planning, environmental and social measures. The legislation extends, in particular, to areas predominantly occupied by low-income populations, through the Urban Land Regularization of Social Interest (Reurb-S).

IEME Brasil has long worked with land regularization in São Paulo, supporting the Secretariat of Urban Development and Housing of the State of São Paulo, through the Cidade Legal Program, providing advice to more than 95 partner municipalities, in addition to the Municipal Secretariat of Housing of São Paulo (SEHAB) and several city halls, such as the cities of São Bernardo do Campo, Mauá, Suzano, Guarulhos and Itaquaquecetuba. In these projects, it applies its knowledge about possible urban planning and legal alternatives to effectively fix communities in their place of residence, being identified as one of the companies specialized in developing projects aimed at recognizing the right to decent housing.

About Reurb

In the legal aspect, Reurb seeks to guarantee property title to occupants of informal urban areas and, consequently, security and legal stability in possession of the property, as well as other rights arising from this regularization. The urban measures in the process aim to adapt the subdivisions to the regularized city, including the implementation of essential infrastructure. On the environmental side, the focus is on settlements without licensing and in violation of regulations. Social measures seek to provide quality of life, especially for low-income families.

Reurb emerges as a fundamental instrument for integrating informal urban centers into territorial planning, guaranteeing rights and promoting sustainable urban development. And IEME Brasil works towards this.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, an American rock band, performed on 10/11 a show at the Morumbi stadium, part of their world tour “Global Stadium Tour”. The historic performance featured the return of guitarist John Frusciante, a classic member who returned to play with the band in 2019, after 10 years in other projects.

IEME Brasil monitored the stadium during the show, using sensors to measure the deformation of the structure, subjected to dynamic loads, such as those generated by the public at music shows or football matches.

São Paulo Futebol Clube (SPFC) and IEME Brasil have a long partnership in monitoring the Cícero Pompeu de Toledo Stadium. The monitoring provides important information about the structure and guarantees the safety and comfort of users, such as those who attended the show on 10/11 and other artistic and sporting events.

It is worth remembering that public agitation generates vibrations in the structure that can exceed the limits allowed in technical standards and generate panic, accidents and even structural collapse. The objective of regular monitoring is to avoid these situations with preventive measures and also to monitor the structure’s behavior in real time.

Monitoring also helps SPFC to optimize the necessary maintenance of the stadium, avoiding greater expenses with possible structural restoration works.

Congratulations to the SPFC Board of Directors, who through their care and responsibility ensure that their events take place safely.

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Versatility and security

Elastomers are polymeric materials with viscoelastic properties, which means they can be stretched and deformed under tension and then return to their original shape when the tension is removed. This unique ability makes these materials extremely versatile and valuable across multiple industries.

In the context of civil and railway construction, elastomers play a crucial role. They are used in large works and railway systems for a series of applications, ranging from shock absorption to vibration isolation. These properties are fundamental to ensuring the safety and adequate performance of structures and systems.

However, to ensure that these elastomers meet the necessary quality and performance standards, it is essential to carry out a series of rigorous tests defined by international Technical Standards. This is where LAEDE – Acoustics and Dynamic and Static Testing Laboratory comes in.

LAEDE, part of IEME Brasil, has extensive experience in high-capacity static and dynamic mechanical testing, which plays a key role in the evaluation and certification of elastomers used in a variety of applications.

The tests carried out by LAEDE include the evaluation of the mechanical and performance properties of materials. This includes quasi-static tests of vertical and shear stiffness, dynamic tests of free and forced vibration, permanent loading, fatigue (mechanical aging) and obtaining the damping coefficient. Additionally, the laboratory is capable of reproducing specific conditions in greenhouse and water environments, which is crucial for testing elastomers in real-world conditions.

The importance of these tests cannot be underestimated. They ensure that elastomers function as expected, providing the necessary shock absorption, vibration isolation and flexibility in various applications. This rigorous assessment also helps identify any wear or degradation over time, ensuring the safety and durability of these materials.

LAEDE is part of the Brazilian Network of Testing Laboratories (RBLE) and is a laboratory accredited by Cgcre in accordance with ABNT NBR ISO/IEC 17025. This means that the tests meet the highest standards of quality and technical competence. Therefore, when choosing LAEDE to carry out these tests, you can be confident that you are working with experienced and certified professionals.

See more on the LAEDE website.

São Paulo and Flamengo played the grand final of the Copa do Brasil 2023 on September 24, a game that gave Tricolor its first title in this competition. In addition to the unprecedented achievement, SPFC once again broke its attendance record this season: no less than 63,077 fans cheered (but cheered a lot!) with Rodrigo Nestor’s goal, which tied the game and brought the cup to the team from São Paulo.

To guarantee the joy (and safety) of thousands of São Paulo residents, IEME Brasil and LAEDE were there in Morumbi, monitoring the stadium. Sensors were installed to measure the vibrations caused by the fans’ actions in the stands.

SPFC, always concerned with ensuring the safety and comfort of its audience, once again hired IEME Brasil to monitor the stadium’s structure. Congratulations to the club’s Board of Directors for their care and responsibility.

It is worth remembering: stadiums that are constantly monitored and receive regular maintenance, such as Cícero Pompeu de Toledo, are very safe.

Read more about the topic on the IEME website.

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Tactile floors are a vital element for accessibility for people with visual impairments. They emerged in 1965, when engineer Seiichi Miyake, driven by the desire to help a friend who had lost his sight, developed a system of embossed floors that could be detected by touch. Different textures and shapes indicated safety conditions or specific risks.

The city of Okayama was a pioneer in adopting the innovation, installing the first tactile tiles on its sidewalks in March 1967. The bright color of the blocks has also benefited individuals with low vision and cognitive disabilities.

Thanks to Miyake’s work, tactile floors have become a global reference in urban accessibility and a symbol of inclusion for people with visual and motor disabilities (wheelchair users). Its innovation has positively impacted the lives of millions of people, opening safe paths for urban mobility.

IEME Brasil has been working for over 20 years in the area of urban accessibility, contributing to a more inclusive society that is aware of the needs of citizens.

Find out more about our work in this area by accessing the link.

The city of São Paulo is literally under construction. Through the Municipal Department of Urban Infrastructure (Siurb), the City of São Paulo carries out the largest program for the recovery and maintenance of bridges and viaducts in the history of the city. In 2023 alone, the interventions have an approved contribution of 650 million reais and the expectation is to complete 300 works by the end of 2024. This volume is unprecedented in the city and is part of the Special Works of Art Maintenance Management Program ( OAE), created in 2018.

IEME Brasil

IEME Brasil has participated in the program since 2020, providing inspection, testing and structural analysis services. The contract covers the Domingos de Moraes, João Beiçola, Olavo Fontoura, 31 de Março, Carlos de Campos and Orlando Murgel viaducts, as well as the Anhembi, Estaiada Governador Orestes Quercia, Arujá, Senador José Ermírio de Moraes and Aurélio Batista Road Complex bridges.

A significant portion of these OAEs, identified as priorities, are currently undergoing rehabilitation and IEME remains involved with some of them, which demonstrated the need for reinforcements and more in-depth studies, with a view to adapting structures to increased traffic or due to problems of maintenance. Complementary reinforcement projects are currently under development and will be made available to the City Hall in the coming weeks.

Recently, IEME Brasil signed a new contract with Siurb, in a consortium with Alphageos, to carry out a series of special inspections, tests and structural verifications. Among the structures to be examined are the Milton Leão, Júlio de Mesquita Filho 2, Itinguçu, Pedroso (Bispo Tid Hernandes), Mie Ken, Shuei Uetsuka and Jaceguai viaducts.

Photo: IEME Brasil / Filipe Viveiros
Governador Orestes Quércia cable-stayed bridge , São Paulo, in June 2021, during inspection service, with one of its lanes interdicted for the safety of technicians

About the Program

São Paulo has hundreds of bridges, viaducts and footbridges, most of them under the responsibility of the City Hall, which is responsible for maintaining and conserving them. With the aim of establishing a permanent culture of routine inspections and preventive maintenance, promoting integrity and extending the useful life of structures, Siurb published Ordinance No. 40/2018, creating the Special Works of Art Maintenance Management Group.

Linked directly to the Secretary’s Office, the Group is responsible for establishing a program of routine and periodic inspections to subsidize the planning, design and actions of repairs, renovations and reinforcements of the OAE, and must verify, among other pertinent aspects, the situation pavement, sidewalk, vegetation, infiltrations, overhaul of structures (infra, meso and superstructure), undermining, support equipment, expansion joints, guardrails, drainage and cleaning.

Thus began the Maintenance Management Program for Special Engineering Works in the City of São Paulo, which follows the guidelines of the ABNT NBR 9452 standard, with annual visual inspections, special inspections every five or eight years and emergency inspections. if there is an emergency demand. The program allows available resources to be used more efficiently, hierarchizing and prioritizing maintenance needs.

Learn more at: https://www.capital.sp.gov.br/noticia/prefeitura-investe-r-650-milhoes-em-2023-no-maior-programa-de-recuperacao-e-manutencao-de-pontes-e-viadutos-da-historia

Urban accessibility is a fundamental issue for the democratization of the right to come and go in cities. This is a set of measures aimed at ensuring that all people, regardless of their physical conditions, have equal opportunities to use public and private spaces autonomously and safely. Although it is a right guaranteed by law, much progress still needs to be made in its effective implementation.

An accessible project encompasses several aspects that are essential to ensure the inclusion and mobility of all. One of the key points is the adaptation of urban infrastructure, including sidewalks, public roads, squares and buildings, to make them accessible to people with reduced mobility, such as the elderly, people with physical disabilities or people with strollers. This includes removing architectural barriers, creating access ramps, installing handrails and adapting elevators.

Rotas Acessíveis

With the aim of creating an even more integrated city, projects such as Rotas Acessíveis were born. The proposal is to create routes based on the need to travel between public transport stations and points of interest for people with disabilities or reduced mobility. Examples of these points would be: hospitals, public services, schools, colleges, malls, theaters, parks, among others.

In São Paulo, the Rotas Acessíveis pilot project included 6 routes: Vila Clementino, Barra Funda, Marechal Deodoro, Ipiranga, Linha Azul and Centro and are currently present in the 2021-2024 Plan of Goals of the City of São Paulo. They also gained space in the Vida Segura Plan, established by Decree 58717/2019, with projects that must be based on accessibility standards.

IEME Brasil actively participated in the creation of Rotas Acessíveis in São Paulo, joining strategic points in the city, integrated by adapted transport, sidewalks and accessible places. The mapping of regions, carried out by IEME, was the basis for defining accessible routes in the municipality, considering important points, interference, transport and inclinations of the routes.

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IEME Brasil conducts census mapping of the community bordering the works on Line 6 of the São Paulo subway

With 15 stations and 15.3 km in length, the future Line 6 – Orange of the São Paulo subway will connect the neighborhoods of Morro Grande (Northwest zone) and Liberdade (central region), and should transport, according to the concessionaire Linha Uni, 633 thousand people per day. In addition to serving a number of universities and central neighborhoods in the city of São Paulo, the line will significantly support urban mobility in the city, reducing the current travel time between these two points, currently from 1h30 minutes, to just 23 minutes.

Like all subway works, Line 6 required a rigorous study of the route and the investigation of possible obstacles, including human occupation. For this specific situation, the development had, between November 2021 and June 2022, the participation of IEME Brasil, which carried out the census mapping of the community bordering the Line 6 works. influence of the enterprise (residential and non-residential), in order to set up a database to be used by the contracting party.

Among the main activities carried out by IEME for the undertaking were: definition of the radius of influence of the work activities, sealing the properties and elaboration of sealing plans, application of individual research in the properties in the area of influence, critical analysis of research, elaboration of database and consolidated reports of special cases.

IEME worked directly with the population residing in the surrounding areas, distributed in different socioeconomic groups, developed its own methodology to operate in buildings and buildings and maintained constant communication with the population, to resolve doubts regarding the application of the research.

Line 6 – Orange – Stations

Source: Linha Uni

IEME Brasil advised the municipality, together with the State Government, to facilitate the processes

The municipality of Paraibuna (SP) celebrated its 357th birthday, on June 13, 2023, with a gift for the residents of the Chororão neighborhood. During the 26th edition of the traditional Feitur (José Benedicto Vilhena Tourism Fair), the mayor of the São Paulo tourist resort, Victor Miranda, and the executive secretary for Urban Development and Housing of the Government of the State of São Paulo, Eli Corrêa Filho, accompanied of state deputies and councilors, took the opportunity to hand over 44 property deeds to residents benefiting from the Cidade Legal Program.

Cidade Legal is the State Land Regularization Program, created in 2007 by the São Paulo government and managed by the Urban Development and Housing Secretariat to assist municipalities in the regularization of housing nuclei. Based on an agreement signed with the city hall, the program makes possible, through its team and contracted companies, the works of the Reurb-S Process, such as: inspection, diagnosis, topographical survey, regularization plan and social registration, elaboration of urban design and descriptive memorials of the defined subdivisions, to then file with the Real Estate Registry Office, enabling the registration.

In Paraibuna, specifically, the Secretariat had the technical support of IEME Brasil, which was represented at the ceremony by Daniela Massano, coordinator of the Urban Development area, and lawyer Gustavo Tufi Salim.

Fight history

“Chororão had particularities, because it bordered the road of the DER (Department of Highways). We also needed approval from DAEE (Department of Water and Electricity) and Cesp (Energy Company of São Paulo). In other words, a lot of work, which depended on other people”, recalled the mayor. Marcos Roberto de Moraes, a resident of the Chororão neighborhood for 36 years, said that the insecurity was very high. “We couldn’t make a renovation, an investment in the house. Today, we have no more worries.”

The deputy mayor himself, José Machado de Araújo Filho (Dr. Machado), is a resident of the Chororão neighborhood and also received the land regularization document. He did a quick review of the neighborhood’s history and past years. “In 2021, we received an order that we should vacate the area within 15 days. This caused a huge uproar throughout the neighborhood. Today, we come to this title deed. In this document, information is released that we are holders of a real property right, we are the legitimate owners”, he said.

Read more about the topic on the Paraibuna City Hall website

Accessibility for people with special needs (public and employees), as well as meeting the basic needs of comfort and safety of employees (in compliance with the NR-24 standard), is one of the focuses of an important contract between IEME Brasil and CPTM (Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos) for the refurbishment of 11 of the company’s stations.

Initiated in April 2018, the contract for specialized engineering and architecture technical services aims at the elaboration of the executive project for the adaptation of the stations and complete renovations, which include electrical, hydraulic and systems installations, intended to comply with the Fire Department Inspection Report (AVCB).

The work covers the following stations: Mooca, Ipiranga, São Caetano, Utinga, Prefeito Saladino, Santo André, Capuava, Mauá, Guapituba, Ribeirão Pires and Rio Grande da Serra.

So far, the complete executive projects for the renovation and adaptation of Capuava, Prefeito Saladino, São Caetano and Utinga stations have been completed, which have already been tendered and built. Tenders for the construction of the Santo André and Mauá stations are in progress. The executive projects for the other stations had different stages of development, but were interrupted by the client’s decision.

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Do not panic. It’s not an earthquake.

This is Vibrodina at work in LAEDE.

The equipment is used for dynamic testing of forced vibration in metro-railway systems (video) and large structures such as stadiums, bridges, viaducts, dams and buildings. The test allows measuring the following dynamic properties: natural frequency of the system, damping, dynamic stiffness and fatigue performance.

LAEDE performs mechanical tests to verify resistance and reliable performance, using state-of-the-art equipment, and is part of the RBLE, accredited by Cgcre in accordance with ABNT NBR ISO/IEC 17025.

Check out all services on the website: https://laede.com.br/en/home-english/

IEME Brasil started a new contract with the São Paulo Municipal Housing Secretariat (SEHAB) to provide specialized services in the area of urban development. It is worth remembering that the previous work with SEHAB extended from 2012 to 2019 and benefited 82,056 families.

In that project, IEME was a pioneer in carrying out the registration of families using the municipal system Habisp and HabitaSampa. The work was carried out in all regions of the city of São Paulo and with different types of housing (slums, irregular subdivisions, housing complexes, tenements, etc.). In the final line of the process, after thousands of individual analyses, there was the delivery of property titles to eligible families that irregularly inhabited the mapped places.

The work involved architects, in the survey of each house (state, area, finishes, etc.), social workers, who collected documents and registered the families (number of residents in each unit, income, children and school attendance), and lawyers, who carried out the screening and analysis to categorize the situations encountered. With this information in hand, the city hall assigned property titles to those who were able to do so.

Before land regularization, families were afraid that someone would invade the house, because they did not have a property title. “Once they receive the title, everything changes. Life becomes more peaceful and they even invest in the conservation of the property. It is very exciting to see that, in some way, we are contributing to improving people’s quality of life”, says Liana Becocci, director of IEME Brasil.