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

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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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.