Adriano Jacobina Filho is a 31-year-old civil engineer, married, and the owner of a French bulldog. He is currently working as a construction supply chain manager for CONSUL Engenharia.

He also owns an engineering company, Büro Engenharia, that focuses on managing construction projects. He also teaches construction techniques at the EBADE Design School.

Adriano has almost 15 years of experience in civil engineering. He has been the lead on projects. He has experience working within the areas of cost engineering, project management, construction contracts, and claims management.

Adriano has been enthusiastic about engineering from an early age. He was influenced by his father, who is also a civil engineer. He was born in Salvador/Bahia. During his youth, his family lived across Africa, including stops in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Angola. These travels were with his parents as they worked on several international construction projects.

In 2007, he partnered alongside his father in a real estate project called “Oceano Sul.” This project was in the luxury Talatona neighborhood in Luanda, Angola. Despite the project location being in Africa, most of the design partners (architecture, utilities, and others) were from Salvador, Bahia. In this project, Adriano worked as the local support for communications and financial affairs.

In 2010, he was accepted in the civil engineering degree program at the Polytechnical School of The Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). This is considered the finest and most traditional school in the state of Bahia. Adriano was able to combine his studies with internships in real estate construction projects with the leading Brazilian construction company, Odebrecht S.A.

In 2016, he graduated and went to Luanda, Angola. There, he worked once more in partnership with his father, as associate civil engineer. He took direct responsibility for budgeting and planning areas in a major Angolan construction and logistics conglomerate. Unfortunately, due to his father suffering an unexpected illness, Adriano had to terminate all the contracts they had in Angola and return to Brazil.

After returning to Brazil, in 2017, Adriano took a position on Bahia’s State Urban Development Company (CONDER), where he has been employed for two years as cost engineer, working with urban infrastructure projects in the UNESCO’s historic site Pelourinho, in Salvador/Bahia.

In 2019, he was invited by AXXO Construtora to support its planning and budget area of work. He spent almost three years working with tendering, scheduling, and cost engineering at the central office in Salvador, Bahia. Also, he had the opportunity to be a part of the management team in the expansion project of the Port Terminal of Santos Brazil, as junior site manager, based in Guarujá/São Paulo.

In 2021, he was approved by the São Paulo Institute of Engineering for a specialization course in Building Information Modelling (BIM) for infrastructure projects. In this course he developed skills around some ultramodern software, like NAVISWORKS and SYNCHRO.

In November 2021, he spent a couple months in Munich, Germany, to study German and experience engineering works on a regional “top class” level. Meanwhile, he was also accepted in the University of Stuttgart’s master program: International Construction: Practice and Law. However, because of the pandemic in Europe and war in Ukraine, he decided not to pursue the course at this time. He hopes to apply again as soon as possible.

Adriano is studying for the Certified Cost Professional (CCP) certification from AACE. He wants to take the exam this year. He also wants to continue volunteering with the Brazil Section.

Asked what his advice is for others, he says, “My recommendation for engineering students and younger professionals is to seek not only specific knowledge in cost engineering, but also technical knowledge in various materials (such as asphalt, soils, concrete, etc.) and gain experience in different types of construction works (such as road, earth works, maritime, industrial, real estate, etc.). This kind of knowledge will certainly make them outliers in their careers.”