As part of the IBGE 90 Years project, Canabarro unity will be the first one to benefit from the end of the rental of the Chile Avenue unity, which consumed R$15 million per year in 2023.

Led by the President of the IBGE, Marcio Pochmann, a technical visit took place this Wednesday, 22, to know the areas that will benefit from the largest refurbishment of an IBGE building in recent years. For the President, the visit marks a historical change at the IBGE, as own public buildings are being occupied again, saving resources.

"Even with the budget constraints in 2024, the IBGE managed to guarantee resources to bid the recovery of the infrastructure of the Canabarro building, allowing to receive colleagues who are at the Serpro building, in Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, from 2026 onwards," stated Marcio Pochmann, President of the IBGE.

The visit counted with the participation of Rose Mary Rodrigues, Deputy Director of the Executive Directorate, the Director-nominee of the Directorate of Surveys, Gustavo Junger, the Special Advisor of the Presidency, Denis Maracci, and the General-Coordinators of the Center for Information Documentation and Dissemination (CDDI CCS), José Daniel Castro da Silva, and of the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE), Paulo Jannuzzi.

CDDI CCS officers followed the group, which visited all the Canabarro areas and discussed actions required to begin the works.

Ten structuring axes

The bid, completed and committed on December 28, 2024, involves ten refurbishment points:

1. Sealing with liquid polyurethane and the respective layer of regularization/trim;
2. Facade washing;
3. Electrical installations, including the SPDA;
4. Refurbishment of the walkway that connects blocks A and B;
5. Services of frames, cages and brises, including glazing;
6. Slab drilling, once previously authorized by supervisory bodies;
7. Filling in cracks in structures through injection of specific products;
8. Tests;
9. Recovery of facades covered with travertine marble;
10. Possible other service(s), once previously authorized by supervisory bodies.

According to the contract, works begin on March 1, 2025, and close in august 2026, an anniversary gift to the IBGE and its officers.

Deputy Director of the Executive Directorate, Rose Mary Rodrigues, highlighted that the bid, valued at R$6,370,000, is already committed and it is scheduled to finish in August 2026. "The company that won the bid is developing an Executive Project of the services hired to deliver to the IBGE supervision on March 1, 2025. Moreover, before the beginning of the services, the company will make a presentation to all officers of the Canabarro complex showing how services will be made, in order to mitigate the impacts during the work," said Rodrigues.

Horto-Canabarro connection

For the new Director-nominee of the DPE, Gustavo Junger, the beginning of the work will also be important to receive, in internal rotation, part of the Horto officers, a place that will receive officers currently assigned in the Chile Avenue unity and new officers from the Unified National Public Tender (CPNU).

"The immediate start of the recovery work of the Canabarro complex is key. As it recovers a unity responsible for gathering a significant group of officers, besides the preservation of the IBGE´s historical heritage. In addition, that space has the potential of not only receiving other Directorates in the future, but rather immediately serving to reorganize our labor routine during the transition period," highlighted Junger during the visit.

Refurbishment in steps

A work group will be created to follow up the first phase of the refurbishment and the new division of the internal space, which will receive current Canabarro officers, as well as Horto officers.

We will invest in a retrofit project, aiming at adjusting the spaces to address the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE), which is already at the Canabarro complex, as well as addressing other Directorates that will need co-working spaces.

ENCE at Canabarro

ENCE´s Coordinator General, Paulo Jannuzzi, the school will have an unprecedented expansion with the movement of the print shop from Canabarro to Parada de Lucas.

The work at Canabarro will be very important, as we will join two ENCE units in a larger place, providing more accessibility for the students in an environment with other universities and research centers, key to the university life of teaching, research and extension. “With these works we can also have more structured laboratories, teleconference rooms and living spaces for students, officers and teachers," highlighted Jannuzzi.

A big and new IBGE at Canabarro

For the Coordinator General of the CDDI CCS, José Daniel de Castro, the new refurbished space at Canabarro will be a legacy from the 90-year anniversary of the IBGE. "However, to start the works, it was required to restructure the print shop and integrate it in Parada de Lucas," emphasized Castro, as well as to move the archive and library, previously located at the Canabarro unity, to the building of the Fazenda Palace.

All the steps and deliveries of the work will be announced in the Transparency Area of the IBGE intranet.