THIS IS HOW THE PATH IS BUILT - Odebrecht Informa

to facilitate access for people living in the densely populated
satellite towns of Viana and Kiaxi. The second is the
Marginal Sudoeste Highway itself, which connects Largo
da Corimba and Bispo Beach (it runs parallel to the heavily
traveled Samba Highway, which has already been refurbished).
Odebrecht has already built seven bridges for this
project. The third new project is a road artery linking the 21
de Janeiro Highway to the Golfe Highway, improving traffic
flow for people traveling between the south and center of
Luanda.
These works are all getting underway in 2012.
Odebrecht Angola has already delivered a number of
roads, and will deliver even more in 2012 – in Luanda
says Maria Eugenia, who has a nursing certificate.
“This route will help attract organized businesses,” she
observes. She is also happy for another reason: before
the road works were completed in November 2011, it
took her over an hour to get home from work. Now the
commute takes less than 30 minutes.
Odebrecht members have also benefited from the
project. Jorge Manuel, 24, joined the company four years
ago. He started out as a carpenter and is now a supervisor.
He says that, at first, commuting to work was stressful,
although he lived just 15 km from the jobsite. Three
years ago the commute took an hour, but now he can
get to work in just 10 minutes. “Now I have more time to
spend with my family, and I’ve even started taking a technical
course in biophysics to grow professionally,” he says.
New projects
Odebrecht’s transport infrastructure projects in Angola
are bringing immediate and significant benefits
for the Angolan people. And a number of new projects
are going to make their lives even better. The client is
the Angolan Ministry of Urban Planning and Construction,
and the projects have been included in the national
government’s Public Investment Program (PIP)
for 2012. They are part of a USD 600 million package of
road works that will be carried out within three to four
years. To achieve this goal, Odebrecht will groom and
mobilize approximately 2,000 Angolan workers – and if
everything goes as planned, at least 20% of them will
be women.
One of these new projects is “R 17”: a route linking the
district of Camama with the Marginal Sudoeste Highway
Engineer Djamira
Nazaré Paixão
and the Baía
Farta-Benguela
Highway: a new
generation of
Angolans actively
participates in
shaping their
country’s future
and the provinces of Benguela, Huambo and Malange.
All of them are vital for the nation’s economic development
and physical unity. The projects in Luanda allow
for expansion that will lead to a lower population
density and, therefore, better organization, planning
and implementation of urban infrastructure facilities
– which will also have a positive impact on people’s
health and well-being.
These are just some of the initiatives now underway
in Angola, a country with a territory twice the size of
the Brazilian state of Bahia (which is roughly the size
of France), although most of its population is concentrated
in Luanda. The nation’s economy has grown at
an average annual rate of about 10.8% over the past
six years. By deploying transport infrastructure works,
Odebrecht is working to ensure that development benefits
all Angolans, both rural and urban.
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