{"id":13092,"date":"2025-05-01T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betar.pt\/?p=13092"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:57:01","slug":"a-conversation-with-engo-pedro-conceicao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betar.pt\/en\/a-conversation-with-engo-pedro-conceicao\/","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with Eng\u00ba Pedro Concei\u00e7\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>He has over 18 years of experience in road operations. How did you come to transport infrastructure management and what are your main duties as a Maintenance Manager?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I finished the course in 2004 and was prepared for any activity. At the time, I went to work for a construction company in the central region of the country, whose specialty was Public Works, in the road sector. I stayed at this company for about 2 years and then applied for a position as head of maintenance in the Azores. Very briefly, I am responsible for all maintenance and surveillance services. The surveillance team that I coordinate works 24 hours a day and we also have the maintenance device. The human resource\u2019s part involves complex management. So, I have more technical work, which is planning the work, supervising and monitoring the budget. I am also responsible for managing all inspections and maintenance and depending on the results, developing and planning corrective work. I manage the equipment, supply stock and must ensure that we always have the assets in the right conditions. I often say that if our work is well done, no one will notice us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opened in 2011, Euroscut A\u00e7ores has a length of 93 kilometers that connects the main locations on the island of S. Miguel. What are the main challenges and particularities of the concession?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a distinctive concession, it has a strong landscape bias, we are forced to take great care, and we spend a lot of resources on landscaping. The island has lush vegetation that needs to be cared for and controlled. Respect for nature is a priority, the use of chemical herbicides is very limited, and we try to ensure that the road does not have a major impact on the surroundings. Then we have other particularities, we manage a set of routes that are very different from each other. We have a few kilometers of expressway-style roads, single-lane roads in each direction and even a stretch of mountain road 6m wide. Our assets have very large age differences, some roads are 12 years old and others 100, and the materials used were completely different, we have the most modern Hydraulic Passages that exist, and others made of stone. Another major challenge is insularity, which greatly affects our operations. The island is not very big and has 125 thousand people, which means that we have difficulty in having large suppliers. We are far from having some more professional services, such as Betar, which does highly specialized work and has to come from the continent to provide us with its services. The fact that almost everything comes from abroad makes things more difficult, expensive and time-consuming. And it&#8217;s the same with materials. Around 90% of what we use on the route comes from abroad and we are always at least two weeks away, which forces us to be very careful when sourcing materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And how do you evaluate Betar&#8217;s performance?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Betar has always been our preferred partner in the management of Works of Art. All inspections were carried out by Betar and we have already acquired the GOA software which has allowed us to do very good archiving. No information is lost, which is great, and you can make very personalized queries and extract everything very quickly. The way it is permanently integrating new inspections is also great and, in this sense, the inspections carried out by Betar also help us a lot because, when we must make interventions, Betar&#8217;s reports come with a lot of details, and we just must take them and apply them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your prospects and challenges for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Working in the Azores has its challenges, but it is easier to balance professional and personal life, because no one wastes 1 hour commuting to work. Everything is on a small scale. I can walk my entire concession in a day and it&#8217;s easy to get from work and pick up the kids from school. As for the company, our assets are aging and becoming more demanding, we must make larger investments. On the other hand, climate change is already being felt. Average temperatures have been higher, and vegetation is growing faster, which means we must allocate even more resources to this activity. There are also more extreme phenomena, such as strong winds, which led us to implement a plan to replace and reinforce some structures, such as signaling gantries. Another thing we are doing is the adoption of electrified vehicles in the concession. The fact that the island is small means that the use of electric vehicles can be considered without fear, because autonomy is not a problem here. We have had electric vehicles for almost 2 years and the results are positive, especially because the cars have fewer mechanical problems, the others would stay in the workshop for one to two months waiting for parts. This is in addition to the environmental issues that are a concern of the concession. We already have paving made with mixtures of recycled materials because we are very sensitive to environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This interview is an integral part of Revista Artes &amp; Letras #176, may 2025<br \/>\n<\/strong>Partially automatic translation from portuguese: some expressions may differ from their actual meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has over 18 years of experience in road operations. How did you come to transport infrastructure management and what are your main duties as a Maintenance Manager? I finished the course in 2004 and was prepared for any activity. 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