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Digital revolution
meets sustainability
How technology can sustainably
drive projects and operations
By Luiz Eduardo Ganem Rubião, executive director, Radix Engineering and Software
Companies are also facing a dramatic change in their human resources needs, along
with big environmental accidents in different industries. At the same time, new
technologies are emerging, transforming the way of doing business.
Radix began its operations in 2010. The expectation offloading vessels for Petrobras. However, with all
of its founders was to target the big greenfield the problems related to the global decrease of the
and brownfield capex projects that were being oil barrel price and the corruption investigations
planned and executed by Petrobras. With a solid in Brazil, Radix had to reinvent itself. The company
engineering team, Radix was the ideal partner decided to diversify its activities, portfolio, markets
for Petrobras and the big Brazilian engineering and customers. At the same time, Radix was faced
and construction companies in complex oil & gas with the challenges of emerging digital technologies
projects. The beginning of the story was perfect. and the impacts of big environmental accidents
Radix became one of the engineering partners for in different industries (the Gulf of Mexico oil spill,
the design of eight floating production storage and the Fukushima nuclear accident, the collapse of
