Administrative centre for the state of Minas Gerais

Client: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF MINAS GERAIS.

Services: EXECUTION / Owner's or Lender's Engineer.

As the project’s Owner’s Engineer, Tractebel Engineering was responsible for the technical supervision and monitoring of the building and engineering works for the construction of the administrative centre of the state of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte.

The project’s details:

More than 270 thousand square metres of constructed area .

Six main buildings, four of them suspended (254,039 m²).

Two, 15-storey towers, each with a penthouse.

Suspended structure: a 146m-span, supported by four columns.

300,000 trees and shrubs planted/ 70,000 m² of grass.

Three underground galleries for pedestrians and an access tunnel – 140m long , 21m wide and 5m high – with four tracks for vehicles.

An energy emergency generator for uninterrupted energy supply of 200 KVA.

We supervised the construction of the world’s largest suspended structure, in reinforced concrete. It is one of the few buildings of this type in Brazil.

Tractebel Engineering implemented a management system that allowed our professionals to simultaneously monitor the construction work at several sites, with various companies and contracts involved.

Computer software enabled us to record the evolution and quality of the work in an organized and permanent way. This enabled instantaneous transmission of work data for the technical coordination of the project.