Marco Juliani, civil engineer and director of IEME Brazil

In the mid-1990s, when the major football stadiums in the state of São Paulo were banned for lack of safety, the necessary awareness alert was sounded. Investing in safety and maintenance of venues hosting the big local games should be a priority for the leaders of the governing bodies and institutions. Seasons and seasons later, the scenery signals for some changes. Many of them are motivated by catastrophes, behavioral differences in the supportive public, and the economic value of having a large sports plaza. Back then, some had already realized this priority: Marco Juliani was one of these people. A civil engineer graduated from the Engineering College of São Carlos (USP), with a doctorate from the Polytechnic in São Paulo, he was directly involved in the process of revitalizing the structure of the Morumbi stadium, one of those temporarily closed during the period. The tricolor house was Juliani’s kick-off in the soccer field. Since then, IEME Brazil, an advisory engineering company, has been providing services to major projects in the field, such as the São Paulo state stadiums Canindé, Palestra Itália and Pacembu, as well as the Engadio and Maracanã cities in Rio de Janeiro and the Olympic Games in Porto Alegre. By means of an equipment called Vibrodina, of Italian origin, is called the dynamic load in a determined structure – in the case of the stadiums, in the bleachers and numbered. A data acquisition system for vibrations and accelerometers completes the process. In this interview with the University of Football, Juliani speaks in more detail about this work, the importance of making in Brazil a methodology for assessing the structural conditions of stadiums and what reality on the eve of the 2014 World Cup