Rehabilitation, restoration, energy efficiency

It all started with Teatro Carlos Alberto, in 2002. Five years later, the São Bento da Vitória Monastery also joined the TNSJ structure. As time went by, with three separate spaces in the city under its management, the Porto National Theatre’s property responsibilities increased. Besides a strategic clarification of the TNSJ’s activities, these buildings – two of which are National Monuments – demand our attention and care. We began the year by carrying out rehabilitation work on the ceilings of the galleries of the Monastery’s magnificent Major Cloister (and also of its Chapter Room), thus reversing their deterioration and putting an end to mortar fragments falling from the vaults. In June, the POSEUR – Operational Programme for Sustainability and Efficient Use of Resources approved an energy efficiency project for TeCA, which will involve, during 2020-21, replacing existing light fixtures with LED ones and the installation of photovoltaic panels on the building’s roof for energy production, among other measures. In the early days of September, we concluded a new restoration work on the figures that decorate the Teatro São João’s façade, in order to avoid the risk of such elements falling down. All this is a preamble to a more ambitious conservation campaign, part of the commemorations of the Centenary of the building, a creation of architect José Marques da Silva.