Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil Engineer Person An individual. Birth Date 1919-04-12 Birthplace Calheta Death Date 2002 Training Institution Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Occupation Civil Engineer Teacher Biographical Text José Sidónio Brazão Farinha was born in Calheta, Madeira Island, on April 12, 1919. He married Maria Gertrudes Ribeiro de Castro Brazão Farinha, mother of his sons Manuel Brazão Farinha and José Pedro Brazão Farinha. He was a figure linked to the Lisbon Metropolitan, dedicated to studies on the Lisbon subsoil and author of a vast work that constitutes a valuable historical, cultural and technical reference for the implementation of the metro in the Portuguese capital. He graduated in 1944 from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in civil engineering. His professional life began linked to the Direção Geral dos Serviços Hidráulicos, where he worked between 1944 and 1949 doing research work on water treatment and sanitation. He collaborated at the Profabril Study Center, namely for the installation of the Tabaqueira in Albarraque and of Petroquímica in Lisbon. However, it is to the Lisbon Metropolitan that Brazão Farinha is associated. He worked there for 41 years. He mainly worked to its start-up and the installation of the first 19.5 km of lines. Between 1950 and 1959 he was part of the construction of the Cristo Rei Statue, inaugurated in 1959 in Almada. In the technical team, he worked as a structural engineer. He was a professor at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), where he collaborated in the foundation of the Center for Civil Engineering Studies. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the “Amigos de Lisboa” Group and, as such, he briefly joined the Municipal Commission of Toponymy in 1997. He wrote several works, some of which are still guides for the study of engineering, such as Tabelas técnicas, which he coordinated with Correia dos Reis. This book stood for posterity as the gutter of calculating concrete structures. He also wrote some articles, such as the "Ábaco para doseamento de betões" published in Técnica. José Sidónio Brazão Farinha passed away in 2002. Bibliography SILVA, E. (2019). "Sabia que houve um engenheiro madeirense ligado à construção do Metro de Lisboa e do Cristo Rei?". In Funchal Notícias, [online]. Available at: https://funchalnoticias.net/2019/04/27/sabia-que-houve-um-engenheiro-madeirense-ligado-a-construcao-do-metro-de-lisboa-e-do-cristo-rei/ [Accessed 23 Oct. 2019] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource José Sidónio Brazão Farinha Profile Subject The topic of the resource Individual Actor, Technician, Civil Engineer, José Sidónio Brazão Farinha Description An account of the resource José Sidónio Brazão Farinha Profile Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PT BUILDS Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Funchal Notícias Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available PT BUILDS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-10-23 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource PT BUILDS Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource TEXT Language A language of the resource ENG Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context IA49DOC1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1919-2002, Portugal Item under construction - more information soon