https://www.portugalbuilds.org/files/original/a6f04381ea7b81fa315d82e4d879b51b.JPG 514b49ae630fa0df6997098c3cb4a781 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 Manuel António da Mota portrait Subject The topic of the resource Individual Actors, Entrepreneur, Private Promoter, Manuel António da Mota Description An account of the resource Manuel António da Mota portrait Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PT BUILDS Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived SANTOS, C. (2006). Construir uma Vida. Porto, Mota-Engil, p. 193. 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Birth Date 1913-06-08 Birthplace Celorico de Basto Death Date 1995-08-21 Occupation Entrepreneur Biographical Text Manuel António da Mota was born on June 8, 1913, in Codeçoso, on the council of Celorico de Basto. He came from a humble family dedicated to agriculture. He married Maria Amália Guedes Queiroz de Vasconcelos in 1946, resulting from this marriage four children, Maria Manuela, Maria Teresa, Antonio and Maria Paula. After completing his primary education, due to his father inability to continue working, he started to manage the family farms. Determined to define his own life, in 1930 he began working as a pointer in a construction company. Years later he would become general manager and manager, starting his way in the field of entrepreneurship and construction. The following steps were made with family members. With Joaquim Fonseca, his brother-in-law, and Joaquim Pereira da Silva, he creates the company “Industrias Reunidas do Tâmega”, which acquires a sawmill company in Amarante dedicated to the extraction of bagasse oils. However, in 1946, he founded with Joaquim Fonseca and their brothers a new construction company, “Construtora do Tâmega”. Days later it was the turn of "Mota & Company". With a difference of 15 days, these two companies were founded. The partners were the same, with slight changes, since in the case of “Mota & Companhia” Manuel António da Mota was a majority partner followed by the partners Joaquim Fonseca and Virgílio Martins Ribeiro. They were two families, Mota and Fonseca. They had different goals. The "Construtora do Tâmega" to do public works and construction and the "Mota & Company" to dedicate to forest and agricultural exploitation. With the creation of the two companies, the first went to work in Portugal and the second in Angola. He went to Angola and settled there. He allowed the company to always be seen as an Angolan company, without problems with the government or with the liberation movements. At the time of Angola's independence, it was one of the few groups that continued to work there. The difficulties remained during this period, as the war problems and political and social upheavals made most of Mota & Companhia's partners want to leave the Angolan market. Manuel António da Mota held his ground and, buying the shares of the other partners, rebuilt the company and restarted from scratch in the mid-1970s. In this country, he left his mark, through the company, in works such as Luanda Airport and Luso-Henrique de Carvalho road. This decade is also remembered by the return to Portugal for the Lucefecit dam project. In 1977, the year in which Manuel António da Mota and his children acquired almost all the capital of “Mota & Companhia”, the company won the important public tender for the regularization of Baixo Mondego. Mota & Companhia became a public limited company in 1987, launching that year a public offer to sell part of its capital. Before he died, the founder of the company distributed the shareholder positions among his children, leaving the position of majority shareholder to his son Antonio. In 1982, he was awarded the Order of Agricultural and Industrial Merit, in recognition of his hard work as a businessman working for the development of Portugal. In 1995, when the company was growing and becoming increasingly international, Manuel António da Mota died on August 21, leaving a legacy in the history of construction and public works in Portugal and abroad. Bibliography SANTOS, C. (2006). Construir uma Vida. Porto, Mota-Engil. A Fundação, Manuel António da Mota. Fundação Manuel António da Mota, [online]. Available at: http://www.fmam.pt/a-fundacao/manuel-antonio-da-mota/ [Accessed 9 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 Manuel António da Mota Profile Subject The topic of the resource Individual Actors, Entrepreneur, Private Promoter, Manuel António da Mota Description An account of the resource Manuel António da Mota Profile 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 2019-07-01 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 IA4DOC1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1913- 1995, Portugal Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PT BUILDS Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Mota-Engil Fundação Manuel António da Mota Item under construction - more information soon