GalleryFilling stations — Angola
Filling stations — Angola
Others
The project included the design of several filling stations, improving traffic conditions and harmonization of stations and their location. The solutions developed for these stations have taken into account all equipment necessary for their effective use: refueling stations (for light and heavy vehicles and motorcycles), convenience store, medical facilities, parking and fuel storage.
GalleryHuambo water tower — Angola
Infrastructures, Other Projects
The need to design a water tower to supply water in Huambo was due to the terrain topography not allowing a proper operation of the water distribution network, namely, the failure to comply with minimum pressures from a supported reservoir.
GalleryBaixo Alentejo Subconcession — Portugal
Baixo Alentejo Subconcession — Portugal
Selected Portfolio
This study consisted of a road safety audit of to road projects of the Subconcession Baixo Alentejo, belonging to IP 8, between Sines and Beja.
All reconnections and interchanges (Grândola Sul, Santa Margarida do Sado, Figueira dos Cavaleiros, Ferreira do Alentejo e Beringel) were also audited.
GalleryA 2 — Castro Verde/Almodôvar — Portugal
A 2 — Castro Verde/Almodôvar — Portugal
Selected Portfolio
The Castro Verde/Almodôvar subsection, with a length of about 21 km, is part of the two last concluded sections of the A 2 Highway, namely between Castro Verde and the Via Longitudinal do Algarve (VLA). The conclusion of these sections allowed a faster, more comfortable and safer connection for the users travelling from North and Center Portugal to the extreme South of the country, […]
GallerySpecial Rehabilitation Plan Of The Cacuaco City Shoreline — Angola
Special Rehabilitation Plan Of The Cacuaco City Shoreline — Angola
Selected Portfolio
In this project, we created a network of local interfaces that structured areas essential to the location of reference infrastructures. We also materialised an area of reference utilities and facilities on a metropolitan and national level (sports city, multimedia centre, casino, marina, commercial zone). We identified vast open areas destined to protect against the risk of flooding, making use of their natural resources and […]
GalleryLar Cristão II Retirement Home — Portugal
Housing and Urbanism
This project involved the structural and foundations design for a retirement home for the Associação de Beneficiência Evangélica – Lar Cristão.
This rectangular building of approximately 40 x 17 m is 8,90 metres tall and divided into three storeys. The total construction area is of 1.573,10 m2. The adopted solution featured a reinforced concrete cantilevered structure with the columns spaced according to a regular grid. […]
GalleryMorocco Reservoirs
Morocco Reservoirs
Infrastructures
This feasibility study for the design of reservoirs in Morocco involved several typical solutions: buried and surface reservoirs both, of either circular or rectangular section, and with capacities for 500 m3, 1.000 m3, 2.000 m3, 2.500 m3 and 5.000 m3. The structural solution to all possibilities was to use reinforced concrete, combining retaining and structural walls and also inner columns. The main constraint was […]
GalleryRehabilitation of Angola’s Railway Network
Rehabilitation of Angola’s Railway Network
Reference Projects
A1V2 is involved in the rehabilitation project of Angola’s entire railway network, in a total length of approximately 2.700 km. Works began in 2007 and are scheduled to be completed in 2014.
Angola’s railway network is defined by three structural lines:
— Benguela Line – between Lobito and Luau, with a total length of 1.340km;
— Luanda Line- between Baia and Malange, with a total […]
GalleryBata International Airport — Equatorial Guinea
Bata International Airport — Equatorial Guinea
Selected Portfolio
Located in the African continent, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea is currently one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Bata is its largest city and it was in this context, framed by the territorial development politics of the country, that the project for a new international passenger terminal at Bata Airport was originated – an iconic work of contemporary architecture, inspired by and […]
GalleryLinda-a-Velha School — Portugal
Linda-a-Velha School — Portugal
Education, Other Projects
The proposal for the Linda-a-Velha Primary School possessed both features of a nursery school, municipal library, public garden and underground car park.
The school complex was designed as a group of three separate bodies. The first two, the preschool and primary school, were articulated through the main hall/waiting area. The third body, independent from the other two and annex to the outdoors sports field, encompassed […]