Pavement evaluation comprises structural assessment, surface conditions evaluation, functional evaluation and safety evaluation. That type of information provides fundamental subsidies for paving rehabilitation projects, pavement management systems (PMS), maintenance plans and the early diagnostics of pavement failures. Engefoto made significant investments in this field, by both buying equipment and developing systems, especially to build capacity of their technical team. Structural evaluation can ...
With the restriction of using bound resources since the enactment of the 1988 Constitution, the recovery of the existing road network was seriously impaired. What followed was a scenario of rampant deterioration, where operating costs escalated and the efficient circulation of cargo and passengers was hindered. Road concession programs for private entities came to be under that context as a solution to curtail the costs of public authorities and further the recovery and efficient operation of roads, ...
Engefoto has an expert technical team to design road engineering surveys and projects, including road engineering that comprises highways, urban roads and railways. Over the last years the company has developed important road-related works, the most significant of which are: Restoration and enlargement projects for higher capacity of the São Paulo–Curitiba–Florianópolis Corridor at highway BR-116 section, between the Border of the State of São Paulo and Curitiba, ...
ENGEFOTO is continuously endeavoring to broaden their scope of action and improving their expertise to carry out pipeline surveying and projects. The following services are within the scope of the company’s activities: Geologic and geotechnical surveys Hydrologic surveys Topographic and topobatimetric surveys Geophysical surveying on land and/or water layer: GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) SBP (Sub Bottom Profile) PCM (Pipeline Current Mapper) Electroresistivity Geotechnical probing on land ...
Supported by well-founded paving assessment expertise, Engefoto started to supply services for the paving management systems sector. Those systems are major tools that enable road agencies and road concession companies to manage, on logical bases, regular maintenance actions (restorations). From a consistent road database, the software helps the planner to forecast the behavior of the road network under different investment scenarios and to set up annual and pluriannual investment programs, to mention ...
As well as executing projects, other outstanding activities developed by ENGEFOTO’s Transport Engineering area are related to Work Management and Supervision. The company has been providing those services for governmental and private entities both for highways and urban roads. Well-performing work activities depend on several factors, which must address the project and the monitoring of the execution of the work itself. Monitoring can take on many forms of work management or supervision, including ...
Most human endeavors, particularly those related to the implementation and/or restoration of road works, greatly impact the environment where they take place. Even when the main purpose of those works is to improve the lives of people by offering better and safer highways, railways and/or urban roads there will still be a measure of negative consequences ensuing from their implementation on the physical environment, wildlife, plant cover and to the human being. For this reason, it is necessary to ...
