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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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.