Altino Bessa visits Utopia

The City Councillor of the Environment of Braga City Council visited today the Utopia project where he was able to see the state of the work whose most emblematic element is the main building constructed using tires filled with earth and the reuse of cans. 

In this visit, the Councillor Altino Bessa offered to support the project, through new forms of communication and dissemination of the project, noting that initiatives with this important ecological message and innovation are important for the entire Minho region, regardless of the municipality where it is located.

This visit (informal in nature), was led by Moisés Campos, representative of Plako, and began with an explanation of the reasons that led to the change of the company's headquarters to a rural environment. 

The representative of Plako explains that this idea arose in 2010 and has as main goals to demonstrate that it is possible to move a company to a rural area and prove that it is possible to continue to grow, in addition to the important message of preservation of the environment, through the reuse of 2000 tires and more than 11,000 soft drink cans used in the construction of the building's outer walls. 

The Councillor of Braga also said that he was very enthusiastic about the entrepreneurial dynamics of the company, because "it is remarkable to be able to combine technological innovation with environmental sustainability. We should also highlight its new location in the deepest part of the rural world, just proving what we have been advocating: rurality is undoubtedly an opportunity that should be explored in the most diverse areas of activity.

In the visit to the details of the building, the entire construction process was described, as well as other sustainable materials used in the process, such as the use of straw and gravel. 

The visit ended with a description of the efforts being made to maintain (and even improve) the existing biodiversity in the surrounding area of over 1ha, reinforcing the message that it is important to ensure respect for all species of living beings so that we can continue to live on this small planet.