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fire in the open air. They get someone to roast the meat for them and it’s an enjoyable lunch for them. They don’t want to go to a cafeteria to eat rice and beans with potatoes and so on. So you have to respect that. Roque: “I was born to be an engineer” Air Force plane, and that was when I saw my first hydros, Paulo Afonso 1 and Paulo Afonso 2, and went down into the caverns. That impressed me too. It was unforgettable. Just one thing On that project I only insisted on one thing: that my family go there with me. The team at the time was very surprised and said, “Damn, Roque, you’re going to take your wife there?” “That’s right. My wife is from Uruguay. We’ve only been married four years, and she’s going to live with me on the jobsite.” “No way!” “Don’t worry, I’ll find a way.” My wife was the only woman at the jobsite, and there were 3,000 men there. We lived in a brick house that wasn’t plastered over on the outside. It was all improvised. Our first child was just over a year old. Cultural differences In Malaysia, there is a fruit that, if someone comes near you with it, you have to leave the room. To give you an idea, they have signs at the entrance of the international hotels saying: “Do not enter with durian fruit.” It smells like ammonia mixed with jackfruit. If someone comes near you with that fruit, you have to get out of there. But for Malaysians, it’s a delicacy. A spectacular thing, a treat. It’s their culture. Uruguayan workers’ cafeteria The Uruguayan workers just want to get a piece of raw meat, bread, lettuce, tomato and onion, and make a Malaysian indigenous chief sends a message The site of the future Bakun Hydro on the island of Borneo, in Malaysia, was surrounded by indigenous tribes. A few months after I got there, I received a message from the head of the indigenous tribe, saying he wanted to meet me. It was like a movie where I was the leader of the white men and he was the Indian chief. I had to go alone, and my main concern was how I would communicate with the tribal chief. We ended up communicating through gestures. And I had to eat something I was absolutely sure was some part of a monkey. To this day I don’t know what it was that I ate. It made me really nauseous, but it was part of the job. Record concrete pour The construction of Los Huites in Mexico was such a massive project that we beat the world record for monthly concrete pours. We made the cover of ENR-Engineering News Record magazine. It was a high-visibility project for Odebrecht, carried out in partnership with Mexican companies. But what caught my attention was the words painted on the cemetery wall, which read: “Fuera los brasileños” (“Brazilians go home”). It took a little time for the Mexican workers to understand our philosophy, but after about four months we noticed that the wall of the cemetery had been painted white. 84 informa
Next issue: Sustainability Founded in 1944, Odebrecht is a Brazilian organization made up of diversified businesses with global operations and world-class standards of quality. Its 150,000 members are present in the Americas, Africa, Asia. RESPONSIBLE FOR CORPORATE COMMUNICATION AT CONSTRUTORA NORBERTO ODEBRECHT S.A. Márcio Polidoro RESPONSIBLE FOR PUBLICATIONS PROGRAMS AT CONSTRUTORA NORBERTO ODEBRECHT S.A. Karolina Gutiez BUSINESS AREA COORDINATORS Nelson Letaif Chemicals & Petrochemicals | Andressa Saurin Ethanol & Sugar | Bárbara Nitto Oil & Gas | Daelcio Freitas Environmental Engineering | Sergio Kertész Real Estate Developments | Coordinator at Odebrecht Foundation Vivian Barbosa EDITORIAL COORDINATION Versal Editores Editor-in-Chief José Enrique Barreiro Executive Editor Cláudio Lovato Filho English Translation by H. Sabrina Gledhill Graphic Production Rogério Nunes Graphic Design and Illustrations Rico Lins Photo Editor Holanda Cavalcanti Art/Electronic Publishing Maria Celia Olivieri Printing 1,600 copies | Pre-Press and Printing Pancrom EDITORIAL OFFICES Rio de Janeiro +55 21 2239-4023 | São Paulo +55 11 3641- 4743 email: versal@versal.com.br Originally published in Portuguese. Also available in Spanish.
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EDITORIAL Energy that empowers drea
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Clairton Gadonski, a Braskem member
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Installing a turbine at the SHP: el
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Inside one of the factories: benefi
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studies for hydropower projects, co
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In Salvador, Bahia, the work day be
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Coexistence and adaptation Juliana
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