📋 Tender Overview
Companies and professionals in engineering, architecture or civil construction that execute or finance projects for needy communities may receive the Engineering or Solidarity Architecture Seal. This is what Law 15,370, of 2026, envisages, sanctioned by the President of the Republic, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and published in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU) this Wednesday (1st).
The seal may also be awarded if the project benefits original and traditional communities, in addition to borrowers and property owners, preferably in the income ranges provided for in the Minha Casa, Minha Vida Program. Structuring, renovation, expansion, improvement, accessibility adjustments and temporary installations will be included.
The seal will be awarded in the beginner, intermediate and advanced categories, depending on the size of the projects and the number of beneficiaries. The rules for these categories will be defined in Executive Branch regulations, as well as other procedures for granting, reviewing and renewing the seal.
Furthermore, the rule provides that public authorities may encourage the execution of projects by exempting taxes and fees, donating public land and providing public support spaces.
The text determines that companies and professionals interested in the seal must meet the following requirements:
have completed a housing or sanitation project that mainly benefits low-income families included in the Single Registry for Social Programs of the Federal Government (CadUnico);
adopt a policy of equity in hiring and managing people in works subject to evaluation;
encourage the adoption of sustainable construction techniques, using universal design (design of products, environments, programs and services to be used by all people, without the need for adaptation or specific design).
The law is the result of PL 4,553/2023, by deputy Tulio Gadelha (Rede-PE), approved in the Senate Plenary on March 3. The proposal was reported by senator Paulo Paim (PT-RS) in the Social Affairs Committee (CAS) and by senator Weverton (PDT-MA) in the Infrastructure Committee (CI).
For Weverton, the measure encourages socially responsible action by professionals and companies in the construction sector, promoting not only housing and urban improvements, but structural transformations in vulnerable communities.
Paim argues in his report that the measure is an indirect way of stimulating civil construction and contributes to solving the need for more housing.
Agencia Senado (Reproduction authorized upon citation from Agencia Senado)
