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rock with Rui Veloso, Táxi and all those emerging bands. And so, carried along with the tide we started being invited to play at Restelo, at the Cascais Pavilion and throughout Portugal. At the time it was fun”, he said.

Life in the Azores and in Madeira

After the musical adventure which aforded him lifelong friendships he headed for the Azores in 1986 for his frst professional experience. He stayed there for two years.

Accustomed to urban life in Lisbon he left his comfort zone, as he himself says. “It felt as if I had just arrived at the end of the earth but of course I recall those times with great pleasure. I remember I had arrived in the Azores a month ago when a strong storm hit the island and we were left without electricity, communications, newspapers for almost

a week. Totally isolated from the world.”, he confessed.

Eduardo Pimentel admits that this experience was very fruitful for him: “I realised that there were other people, other things to do, other areas of interest and so I started doing spear fshing. Sometimes people don’t enjoy what life has to ofer and they only realise this after living many experiences.”

He overcame the challenge and worked for two years on the project and later embraced a new challenge – to head the works on Madeira island at Construções Técnicas.

From this company he recalls the remodelling works of the boxes and facilities for the press at Estádio da Luz (football stadium) as one of the major requalifcation projects for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. A cup that was won by the

“It felt as if I had just arrived at the end of the earth but of course I recall those times with great pleasure. I remember I had arrived in the Azores a month ago when a strong storm hit the island and we were left without electricity, communications, newspapers for almost a week. Totally isolated from the world.”

Portuguese team for the second time round.

When he joined the Company

In 1992 he started working at Engil which at the time was still partially owned by an English company called AMEC. The current chairman of the Tertir Group says that in the initial phase his manager was Peter Jackson. “I also worked with Ismael Gaspar (he was the frst person to interview me), with Luis Fernandes, Fontes de Carvalho, with Carlos Pascoal (with whom I worked at Construções Técnicas), Martinho de Oliveira… well, I think I’ve worked with everyone here since 1992.”

The challenge at the time when he joined Engil was to integrate the planning and control area and, according to Eduardo Pimentel himself, “to develop a process that would help develop the production costs control”.