This document provides a curriculum vitae for Oscar M. Bandeira, a Brazilian civil engineer with over 50 years of experience in the design, construction, and management of large hydropower projects around the world. Some of his roles included resident engineer, construction manager, and superintendent. He has extensive experience supervising civil works including dams, tunnels, powerhouses, and other structures. Currently he works as the superintendent's engineering at the Belo Monte Hydropower Project in Brazil, one of the largest hydropower projects in the world.

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CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: OSCAR M. BANDEIRA
PROFESSION: BSC Civil Engineer
NATIONALITY: Brazilian
MARITAL STATUS : Married
E-mail : oscar.bandeira500@gmail.com;
oscarbandeira@yahoo.com
Mobile: +55-93988082891(work)
+55-61 34102035
KEY QUALIFICATIONS:
He has experience in construction supervision of dams, tunnels, power plants and associated
civil structures. As Construction and Resident Engineer wide experience in supervision and
administration of international contracts.
He has been working in design, supervision and management of large hydropower projects
in Brazil, China, Malaysia and Iran.
He lived in construction site abroad, 4 years in China, 2.5 years in Malaysia and 2 years in
Iran.
His strengths lay in civil works, concrete technology, dam embankment, roller compacted
concrete- RCC, Concrete faced rockfill dam- CFRD with emphasis in Hydropower projects
in structures such as: power intake, power tunnels, powerhouse, spillway, diversion tunnels,
gravity wall and main dam.
Experience in soil and concrete laboratory works, instrumentation in concrete structures,
instrumentation of Concrete Gravity Dam, Concrete Faced Rockfill Dam-CFRD and Roller
Compacted Concrete- RCC.
Experience in Management, Supervision and quality control of civil works by Quality
Standards: BS EN ISO 9002:1994 and BS EN ISO 9001:2000.
Lecturer in Brazilian Universities and Symposiums in the subject- Dam Civil works.
Co-author of papers for National and International Magazines and symposiums about dam
construction, RCC construction and CFRD.
Relevant assignments has included:
Superintendent´s Engineering Belo Monte HEP (11,233 MW) 2011- on going
Dam Resident Engineer Siah Bishe PSP (1000 MW) 2008-2010, Iran
Deputy General Manager Bakun HEP (2400 MW) 2006-2008, Malaysia
Manager of Civil Works Tucurui HEP (8370 MW) 1999-2006, Brazil
Consultant Engineer, Tianshengqiao I HEP (1200MW) 1995-1999, China
Resident Engineer, Xingó HEP ( 3000 MW) 1987-1995 Brazil
Senior Civil Engineer, Itaparica HEP(1500MW) 1976-1987, Brazil
Construction Engineer, Railway Cacequi –Porto do Rio Grande 1974-1976, Brazil
Resident Engineer, Highway Belem- Brasilia 1972-1974, Brazil
Construction Engineer, Municipal Highway Aracaju 1969-1972- Brazil

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EDUCATION:
BSc. Civil Engineering Faculty, Polytechnic School, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil, 1969
Professional Memberships: Member, Brazilian Committee of Large Dams (CBDB)
Member, Brazilian Concrete Institute ( IBRACON)
EXPERIENCE RECORD:
1. NORTH ENERGY S.A. Brazil
2011 on going
Employer: NORTH ENERGY S.A
Project: Belo Monte Hydropower Project (18 generators x 611.1 MW+ 6 generators x 38.68MW) = 11,233
MW – Brazil
Owner: North Energy
Position: Superintendent´s Engineering
• Responsible for civil work issues in Basic and Detailed Design, control of design deliverables that
comprises about 15,000 documents, certification of detailed design, design review, analysis of the
project.
• Preparation and coordination of meetings with Panel of Consultants;
• Dealing with interface issues between civil basic design and electromechanical design, meetings with
suppliers of hydro-mechanical equipment, turbine and generators.
• Responsible for Dam Safety issues and monitoring of instruments.
• Review and analyse Contractor’s claims
• Assist in commissioning and preliminary acceptance of the civil works
• Attend on request meetings with Lending Engineer, Technical Committee, Stakeholder
• Checking of Supervision and quality control of the works performed by Owner Engineer
• Checking of method statements prepared by the Contractor
The main quantities of the Civil Works are the following:
• Common Excavation 123,000,000 m3
• Rock Excavation 44,000,000 m3
• Earth-Rock fill 64,679,000 m3
• Cofferdams 4,990,000 m3
• Concrete 2,500,000 m3
• Roller Compacted Concrete 650,000 m3
• Rock fill coating of the Power Canal 7,637,968 m3
The main structures of the Project are in 04 Construction sites at one distance among then of 50km, and
comprise the following:
06 dams, 30 Dikes, 02 Powerhouses (one with 11,000MW and other with 233.1 MW), 01 Spillway
(62,000m3/s), 01 Power Canal with 20 km length.

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2. POYRY ENERGY (Switzerland)
2008-2010
Employer: POYRY ENERGY- Switzerland
Project: Siah Bishe Pumped Storage Project (4x 250MW= 1000MW)
Client : Kayson Co., Contractor
Owner : IWPC- Iran Water Power Company
Position: Dam Resident Engineer for Contractor’s engineering
Responsible for supervision of civil works and technical support by POYRY for the Contractor, in the
construction of two CFRD, Upper Dam and Lower Dam with 86 and m 105 m respectively, two Diversion
Tunnels with outlets, two stepped Spillway.
3. SNOWY MOUNTAINS ENGINEERING CORPORATION (SMEC- Australia)
2006-2008
Employer: Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC)- Branch Malaysia
Project: Bakun Hydroelectric Project ( 8 x 300MW-2400MW)- Malaysia
Owner and Client: Sarawak Hidro Sdn Bhd- Malaysia
Position: Deputy General Manager main Dam, Power Tunnels and Diversion Tunnels
Responsible for Supervision of civil works of: Main Dam, a 205 m high Concrete Faced Rockfill Dam
(CFRD) with crest length of 750m and rockfill volume of 16.71 million cubic meters.
Eight power tunnels with concrete and steel lined sections having internal finished diameters of 8.5m, 7.0m
and 4.85m respectively. Total length of the power Tunnels 4600m.
Water release Outlet at Diversion Tunnel No. 1 to be utilized as a riparian release facility and subsequently
plugged with concrete after impounding. Diversion Tunnels 2 and 3 to be plugged with concrete following
closure at start of impounding.
4. CENTRAIS ELETRICAS DO NORTE DO BRASIL S/A ( ELETRONORTE)
1999 – 2006
Employer: Centrais Eletricas do Norte do Brasil S/A- Eletronorte
Project: Tucurui Hydroelectric Project- 8370MW (12x350MW+2x22.5MW+11x375MW)-Brazil
Owner and Client: Centrais Eletricas do Norte do Brasil S/A- Eletronorte
Position: Manager of Civil Works 2nd
.Power Intake and Powerhouse and Navigation Locks
My role : Responsible for the management, supervision and quality control of all civil works of the 2nd
powerhouse and Navigation Locks such as: mass concrete, structural concrete and roller compacted
concrete(RCC), in the structures : Power Intake, Gravity wall and Powerhouse.
Responsible for the Roller Compacted Concrete RCC in Power Intake and Gravity Wall with a volume of
480,000 m3.
Responsible for Civil Works of the heightening of the Tucurui Dam with increasing of the reservoir storage.
Responsible for Civil Works of the Navigation Locks.
Total concrete volume of the Civil Works of the Dam: 1,700,000m3

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Total Concrete Volume of the Navigation locks: 1,100,000 m3
5. HIDROSERVICE INTERNATIONAL LTD
1995-1999
Employer: Hidroservice International Ltd
Project: Tianshengqiao I Hydropower Project- China 1200MW ( 4x 300MW)
Client: South China Electric Power Joint Venture Corporation- SCEP
Position: Consultant Engineer for EPDC- Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.-(Japan),
NipponKoei (Japan), SMEC (Australia) and Hidroservice International Ltd-(Brazil)
My role: Consultant for Tianshengqiao I-CFRD Hydroelectric Project as Senior Contract Management
Engineer and Technical Advice for Construction Supervision of the CFRD- Concrete Faced Rockfill Dam.
Senior Contract Management Engineer responsible for assisting with the supervision and monitoring of the
construction and contract management on the 178 m high CFRD. Other duties included analysis and advice of
the monitoring of the dam embankment, plinth and the concrete face slab.
My duties included the supervision of construction of a 178m high CFRD, 1160m long with rockfill volume of
18 million cubic meters and a concrete face slab of 160,000 square meters with a concrete volume of 100,200
m3, the Spillway with 1750m long, 120m wide spillway channel with the total rock excavation of 18,4 million
m3 and total concrete volume of 100,200m3, a Diversion Tunnel Plug with the total concrete volume of
4,000m3.
6. HIDROSERVICE ENGENHARIA LTDA
1987 - 1995
Employer: Hidroservice Engenharia Ltda
Project : Xingó Hydroelectric Project, Brazil ( 3000MW- 6x 500MW)
Client: Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco- CHESF
Position: Resident Engineer
My duties: Responsible for the Supervision and quality control of all the civil works, of earth fill, concrete
faced rock fill dam (CFRD), Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) and concrete works, in charge at peak of 320
employees comprising engineers, technicians, inspectors and laboratory staff.
The civil works included the followings:
Concrete Faced Rockfill Dam (CFRD), 140m high, Roller Compacted Concrete-RCC of the overtopping
section of the main dam, 50 m high and under of the Spillway Flip Bucket.
.Dikes, Cofferdams, plinth, concrete face slab, water intake, powerhouse, draft tube, penstocks, outlet,
diversion tunnels, gravity walls, spillway, pumped concrete, concrete repair works, grouting in tunnels,
anchorage, and grouting.
Roller Compacted Concrete- RCC Volume: 100,000m3, total concrete volume; 1,200 millions
m3
1979 -1987
Employer: Hidroservice Engenharia Ltda
Project : Itaparica Hydroelectric Project, Brazil ( 1500 MW- 6x 250MW)
Client: Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco- CHESF
Position: Concrete Manager Engineer
Major responsibility included the following work items:
Dam: Earth and Rockfill Dam, 105m high, 9million cubic meters .
Concrete and material quality control, a pouring volume of 2,400,000 m3
; Planning study and analysis for
refrigerated concrete pouring in structures such as: Powerhouse, Draft Tube, Penstock, Assembly Hall, outlet,
Gravity Wall, Generator Pit, Discharge Ring, Stator Seat Ring, Spillway;

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oncrete mix and concrete structure temperature calculations and control of two Concrete Batching Plants,
Johnson type (240 m3
/h) and Cifa (180 m3
/h);
Study for determination of height concrete layers in the works; and
Follow-up of instrumentation assembly in concrete works structure of the following instruments: "Carlson"
type electric extensometer and joint gauges, frame thermometer and tensiometer, electric and hydraulic
piezometers, extensometers of large seat, triorthogonal meter, clinometric chain, load cells in
prestressed cables.
1976-1979
Employer: Hidroservice Engenharia Ltda
Project : Itaparica Hydroelectric Project, Brazil ( 1500 MW- 6x 250MW)
Client: Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco- CHESF
Position: Head Engineer of Soil and Concrete Laboratory / Concrete Engineer
Major responsibility included the following work items:
foundation investigation through inspection pits along the dam axis;
geotechnical field and laboratory investigations to know materials qualitative and quantitative; investigation of
clayey soils for the impervious core, sandy soils for the transition, gravel for coarse transition and concrete
materials; and
concrete technology: inspections of cement plants, special trials of concrete physical trials of cement, fly-ash,
and pozzolan, aggregates, admixtures, grouting, mix design for mass, structural and roller compacted concrete.
Combined Bridge (Steel-Concrete) over São Francisco River Project Concrete Engineer: concrete
quality control; topographic and mechanical instrumentation of all stages of metallic span concrete,
temperature and concrete deformation control through instrumentation.
The bridge is the reinforced concrete infrastructure, steel reinforced concrete superstructure, length: 267m,
clear span: 140 m, central span: 90m (steel).
1974 – 1976
Employer: Hidroservice Engenharia Ltda
Project : Railway Cacequí - Porto do Rio Grande, Brazil
Client: Rede Ferroviaria Federal- RG do Sul- Brazil
Position: Site Engineer
Responsible for supervision of construction of railway bridge over Jaguari River with 425m long with
intermediate spans of 25m, foundations for central columns in 16 compressed air caissons, direct foundation
for remaining columns, structural concrete volume of 6,000m3
and slip forms area of 4,500m2
. Also
responsible for construction bridges over the Quebracho, Santa Tereza and Negro Rivers in total length of
superstructure 200m, direct foundation and compressed air caissons, and slip forms.
1972 – 1974
Employer: Hidroservice Engenharia Ltda
Project : Highway Belem-Brasilia, Brazil
Client: Departamento Nacional de Estradas de Rodagem-DNER
Position: Resident Engineer
My role: Resident Engineer- Responsible for supervision of earthworks, pavement and supplementary works
in highway and bridges in section Ceres- Porangatu- Goias. The concrete structures included the followings:
-Bridge over the Mato Grosso brook: extension 22 m; with pile foundations.
-Bridge over the Vai-e-Vem brook: extension 22.40 m, with direct foundation.
-Bridge over the Itinguijada brook: extension 31 m, with direct foundation.
-Box culvert for the Isalas brook: extension 27.15 m, 3.50 x 3.50 section (single).
-Box culvert for the 673 pile: extension 34.90 m, 3.50 x 3.50 single section.

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7. ARACAJU CITY COUNCIL
1969 – 1972
Employer: The Aracaju City Council
Project : Municipal highways/ Urban roads/ Bridges
Client: The Aracaju City Council
Position Construction Engineer
Responsible for supervision of municipal highways in an extension of 120km. Tasks included execution of
urban roads pavement by a process of hot and cold asphalt .
Responsible for supervision of construction and concrete quality control, of the following bridges:
Bridge over the Vaza- Barris River, 1890 m long, with direct foundation.
Bridge over the Piaui River, 200 m long, in direct foundation.
Bridge over the Real River, 300 m long, in pre-stressed concrete, with foundation in compressed air caisson.
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8. PUBLICATIONS
8.1 Technical Papers
1-Concrete Faced Rockfill Dam –Xingó Construction Control- International Symposium on High Earth-
Rockfill Dams- Beijing- China- 1993.
2-Optimization of the maximum coarse aggregate size for concreting -Xingó Hydroelectric Plant- XX National
Seminar on Large Dams- Curitiba- Brazil-1992.
3-Overtopping Section of the Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) - Xingó Hydroelectric Plant- XX National
Seminar on Large Dams, Curitiba- Brazil-1992.
4-Mix design for Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC ) - Xingó Hydroelectric Plant-XX National Seminar on
large Dams- Curitiba- Brazil-1992.
5-Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC)- Placement under spillway flip bucket - Xingó Dam- XX National
Seminar on Large Dams, Curitiba- Brazil-1992.
6-Roller Compacted Concrete(RCC)- Test fill for Xingó Hydroelectric Plant- XX Seminar on Large Dams-
Curitiba- Brazil-1992.
7-Pumping concrete with 64 mm maximum diameter aggregate for the Xingó Hydroelectric Plant -XX
National Seminar on large dams, Curitiba- Brazil- 1992.
8-RCC Quality Control at the extension of Tucuruí HEP- - 420 Congress Brazilian Concrete Institute -
IBRACON- Agosto-2000- Fortaleza-CE.
9-Comparative analysis between the temperatures calculated and measured in the RCC concrete in the trial
embankment HPP- Tucuruí- 420 Congress Brazilian Concrete Institute- IBRACON- Agosto-2000-Fortaleza-
Ceará.
10-Construction alternative for concreting of the Spiral case of the HPP Tucuruí-450 Congress Brazilian
Concrete Institute- IBRACON- Agosto 2003- Vitoria- ES.
11-Construction alternative for grouting between the saddles and spiral case- HPP Tucuruí- 450 Congresso
Brasileiro do Concreto- IBRACON- Agosto 2003- Vitoria-ES.
12-Progress at the 8370 MW Tucuruí extension project in Brazil- The International Journal on Hydropower&
Dams-England- Volume Ten, Issue 4, September 2003.
13-RCC Quality Control Applied in the structures of 1st and 2nd construction stages of the HPP Tucuruí-
Proceedings of the IV International Symposium on RCC- Madrid, Spain, November 2003.
14-Techinical improvement on the concrete structures at the Tucurui extension dam International Conference
“Construction in concrete as factor of integration of America” in honor to the 100 years of American Concrete
Institute-ACI - accomplished with IBRACON - São Paulo- April 2004.
15-Construction procedures for the penstocks encased by concrete applied in the extension works of the HPP
Tucuruí- 460 Congress Brazilian Concrete Institute-IBRACON-Florianopólis-SC.
16- Finishing floors with high strength concrete applied in the extension works of the Tucurui HPP -460
Brazilian Congress Concrete Institute-IBRACON-Florianopólis-SC.

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17- Tucuruí Hydropower Complex- - Concrete Engineering International- Winter Issue- Magazine of the
Concrete Society- England.
18-Measures needed to avoid alkali-aggregate reaction in the concrete of Tucurui dam no -470
19-Roller Compacted Concrete applied in the extension works of the Tucurui Hydropower Complex- Concrete
Engineering International- Magazine of the Concrete Society- England.
20-Tucurui in Brazil: Increasing Reservoir Storage, Adding a Second Powerhouse- American Magazine-
HRW/December 2006.
21- Bakun dam construction and measures adopted to prevent concrete ruptures at face slab- Meeting in Hong
Kong-CFRD Society-December 2008.
22- Bakun: The second highest CFRD in the world- Hydropower&Dams Magazine- issue1-Vol.16- January
2009.
OVERSEAS ASSIGNMENTS:
China- Malaysia- Iran
LANGUAGES AND DEGREE OF PROFICIENCY
Portuguese: reading, writing and speaking – native
English: reading, writing and speaking – good
Spanish: reading, writing and speaking – fair
Signature of Staff Member Date: 2015, October
Attached: Reference Letters