Competences and Services

The highly qualified human resources and the laboratorial resources of excellence of Barreiro School of Technology/ESTBarreiro/IPS make possible the development of projects and the providing of specialized service to the surrounding community in the areas of Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Mathematics.

For more information, please contact us through the following email: infonull@estbarreiro.ips.pt.

We present you some of the services that can be provided and organized by curricular areas:

Biology

  • Microbiological Analysis (food, water, soils – non-certified)
  • Insects’ identification (natural enemies) and environmental disturbance bioindicators

Biotechnology

  • DNA extraction
  • Agarose and Polyacrylamide gel (analysis of proteins and nucleic acids)
  • Taxonomic and molecular identification of pests prejudicial to the agricultural and forest cultures
  • Real-time PCR services.

Construction and Rehabilitation

  • Characterization of materials/products/constructive systems under the national and international normative collection
  • Development of materials/products/constructive systems
  • Characterization studies of buildings performance
  • Buildings rehabilitation studies
  • Buildings reuse studies for new usage
  • Chemical and Industrial Engineering
  • Anti-corrosion behavior analysis of metallic surfaces
  • Development of new materials.

Geotechnics

  • Geologic and geotechnical training programs
  • Support and development of geotechnical and Oil & Gas projects
  • Stone preservation of monuments
  • Soils, rocks and massifs assays
  • Diagnosis and evaluation of stone damage on monuments
  • Monitoring Assessments of geotechnical interventions and of Oil & Gas and of environment
  • Geologic and geotechnical assessments on geotechnical interventions and on Oil & Gas and on environmental fields.

Hydraulics and Environment

  • Water resources evaluation
  • Water resources and hydrology assays
  • Assays to minimize impact of water loss and leakage in systems
  • Assay and characterization of areas that will benefit of irrigation
  • Water and energy efficiency management
  • Resources integrated management
  • Planning, conception and design of water rural and public supply system
  • Planning, conception and design of irrigation and agricultural drainage systems
  • Hydrographic basin planning.

Mathematics and Informatics

  • Numerical simulation
  • Data analysis and processing
  • Mathematical Modeling
  • Optimus control problems applied to fluids
  • Multivariate Data Analysis Services in health area
  • Stochastic processes services.

Mechanics and Structures

  • Infrastructures and Structural materials training programs
  • Civil Engineering Consultancy and projects management
  • Development, characterization and quality control of structural materials
  • Computer applications development for infrastructures
  • Structural material assays on lab and on site
  • Structural monitoring studies
  • Infrastructures audits
  • New solutions development projects on structural reinforcement and the correspondent performance evaluation.

Processes in Biological and Chemical Engineering

  • Laboratorial Analyses (subject to previous confirmation)
  • Chromatography analysis technique
  • Molecular absorption spectroscopy technique
  • Batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells
  • Optimization processes consultancy
  • Electrochemistry applied on the health sector
  • Projects association and partnership
  • Biofuel energy production
  • Chemical project
  • Chemical and biological analyses: chloride analyses and water analyses (non-certified)
  • Chemistry training sessions.

Urbanism and Pathways

  • Cartography assessment
  • Buildings rehabilitation studies
  • Buildings reuse studies for new usage
  • Infrastructures monitoring through photographic images
  • Architecture projects.