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Real Estate and Construction
EDURB – Empresa De Desenvolvimento Urbano, Lda
Mr Miguel Antonio Nogueira
General Manager
Av. Pedro de Castro Van-Dunem “Loy”, CS-2
Bairro Talatona-Samba - Luanda
Tel : +244 222 678 400 Ext: 8412
Fax : +244 222 678 415
quilaco@edurb.net
www.eburb.net
Activity: urban development
Date of Creation: 1995
Turnover: 12 M USD/month (2010)
Edurb – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Urbano – is a
coordinator of construction of infrastructures created
on a partnership between the government of Angola
and Prado Valadares in 1995. This self-financing
program, operating through and achievement and
management fund, works in the planning, realization
and management of urbanization projects to improve
living conditions in the area of Luanda. It is a very
profitable sector in Angola as housing and public
works are booming, with the arrival of some 3 mil-
lion people from other provinces. The city of Luanda
is expanding and offers many new opportunities for
urban development especially with the huge unmet
needs from the low-income and displaced communities.
A view of Marginal
Nossa Senhora do Monte – province of Huíla
“Angola welcomes serious and credible new part-
nerships that will help the country to develop its
economy.”
Mr. Virgilio F. Campos Belo
Managing Director
EDURB is currently involved in the development of
the Luanda-Sul self-financed urban infrastructure
program, covering five areas: Morro Bento, Ben-
fica, Talatona, Projecto Morar (Viana) and Novos
Bairros. It has been granted 90-year surface rights
to develop an area of 9,800 hectares just south of
the capital.Suitable lands for urban development are
identified; the state acquires them from landowners
and legalizes its status according to a land-use plan.
Then EDURB mobilizes capital investment from the
private sector and rehabilitates the lands by building
water supply, sewage networks, public lighting, and
electrical network. The value of the lands sold then
includes the price of these infrastructures. Once the
project is done, Edurb contracts public companies to
take care of the maintenance and cleaning of these
areas.
The program involved an initial investment of US
$30 million and a subsequent investment of US $14
million. The infrastructures development includes
community facilities, schools, commercial estab-
lishments, industrial estates and hospitals. Edurb’s
turnover is around 1million USD a month at the end
of 2010.
According to Angola’s president, José Eduardo Dos
Santos, EDURB’s mission is to contribute to the
improvement of the quality of life of the Angolan
people, to transform the land in infrastructures and
urbanized areas so that all the different social cat-
egories of the population can live in decent houses.
The program has so far resettled 2,700 families dis-
placed by the war, managed to fully service 8 million
m² with 121 km of power lines, 70 km of piped water
and three sewerage treatment plants, generated and
invested US $96 million, mostly in social services
and created 4,000 jobs.