News & Interviews
At BETAR, not only we value sharing our news, but particularly value the act of listening and learning from the experts with whom we collaborate and come across in our day-to-day activities: that's why our interviews were born.
A conversation with Eng. Rui Coutinho
‘The route of our conservation and maintenance decisions lies in the inspection and monitoring activity that aims to identify the most advantageous time to intervene in the engineering structures’ Read more
A conversation with Aboim Inglez Architects
'We were asked to recover a house with unfinished walls and part of the roof built with metal sheets, with a limited budget. The client did not have the prejudice of thinking "I am not going to call an architect here". She felt that she had that right ' Read more
A conversation with Arch. Afonso Almeida Fernandes
‘CAuSA intends to be an association of architects and engineers, who want to help, but it lacks time and initiatives’ Read more
A conversation with Eng. Vicente Miranda
'In Mozambique, there is little training to develop the class of civil engineers and there is a lack of courage to guarantee more quality in the projects, because that means contradicting and annoying the financing countries.' Read more
A conversation with SAMI Architects
Inês Vieira da Silva and Miguel Vieira form SAMI architects. They received us in a fluid and lively conversation, much more than an interview, with the presence of Miguel Villar. Read more
A conversation with Eng. António Sousa
‘Brisa stopped seeing infrastructures only as a channel that receives vehicles and focused on people, […] on the global universe of mobility, and is already present in other segments of the chain.’ Read more
A conversation with Arch. José Forjaz
‘In Mozambique, architecture is for the rich and the models that serve them are imposed on the poor […] We are quantitatively more in need than at the outset’ Read more
A conversation with Arch. Paulo Pereira
'It would be very important for the landscape architect to be heard properly and the idea that he only comes to "add the flowers" later, must disappear' Read more
A conversation with Eng. Elias Paulo
‘Mozambique is solid and its great asset, which is its people, is getting better, there are increasingly better professionals who are going to catapult the country to other levels’ Read more
