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This paper is a reflection on the growth and decline of Paraguayan scientific institutions associated with the Green Revolution. Paraguay had almost no scientific infrastructure in 1943, when American investors and politicians began a massive program to generate national expertise to fuel an export boom. This would be mirrored in the 1990s by disinvestment, personified in this paper by the demise of a vital freezer that was storing corn samples at one of the country's primary research centers. The paper follows this story by focusing on four of the key crops of Paraguayan agrarian research: cotton, maize, wheat, and soybeans. Each of these crops in their time articulated ambivalent interests between those of the Paraguayan nation, and the global ambitions of foreign Green Revolutionaries. By showing the way that the latter interests slowly took over from the former (culminating in the patent regimes around genetically modified soybeans), the paper also traces the rising importance of "facticity" in local agrarian science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A tecnologia digital está cada vez mais inserida nas sociedades, e, por meio dela, é possível a troca de informações de maneira mais rápida, o que facilita, principalmente, a resolução de problemas encontrados no cotidiano das pessoas. Considerando os avanços tecnológicos e a potencialidade dos aplicativos digitais na melhoria da vida social, o presente projeto dedicou-se ao estudo exploratório teórico/prático do Colab, uma rede de comunicação entre população e gestão municipal que visa identificar os problemas infraestruturais encontrados nos bairros dos municípios. A plataforma permite a participação da população no processo de cidadania, possibilitando sugestões de melhorias na infraestrutura dos bairros, uma vez que proporciona o compartilhamento de fotos dos problemas encontrados e o acréscimo de legendas, comentários, localização etc. Nesse sentido, o objetivo deste trabalho foi apresentar o estudo realizado do Colab aos representantes do município de Assis Chateaubriand-PR, para que pudessem analisar a proposta de implantação.

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The model corridor stretching from Mumbai (India) to St. Petersburg (Russia) through Iran and Azerbaijan is known as the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC). This multi-modal corridor is around 7,200 km long and consists of rail, roads, and waterways. The main objective of the construction of the corridor is to improve connectivity and trade relations between the North and the South. It will play a crucial role in promoting regional cooperation and economic integration. Bilateral relations between the member countries will be developed through the project. India will have easy access to the resourcerich Central Asian nations via this corridor, bypassing Pakistan. It will help India by exporting its products to the North and Central Asian countries, including Russia, and importing hydrocarbons at a lower cost by avoiding the traditional long-time route. In the present geopolitical situation, this venture will also improve India's strategic relations with the member countries. Although the project at present is suffering from some glitches, it will be a game changer for India's Eurasia policy in the near future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the causes of structural change in Brazil, through the rise and the fall of the manufacturing industry, and the consequences for total factor productivity and manufacturing labour productivity, from 1947 to 2021. Our results show that the industrialization of the Brazilian productive structure is positively associated with expansions in infrastructure investments and with the pursuit of a competitive real exchange rate, that is, with policies oriented towards economic development. Our findings also indicate that such variables exert a direct influence on total factor productivity and manufacturing labour productivity and an indirect influence through their impacts on the Brazilian productive structure. Our conclusions suggest that an important cause of the Brazilian premature deindustrialization, and then of its poor performance in terms of total factor productivity and manufacturing labour productivity, is the adoption of policies not oriented towards economic development adopted since the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: To analyze the potential of foreign direct investment (FDI) for infrastructure sustainability, based on concession projects from the Brazilian Government's Investment Partnership Program. Method: A descriptive research methodology to meet the research objective, with a documentary analysis carried out on 89 concession projects auctioned over seven years. Main Results: FDI was shown to have played a crucial role in consolidating concession projects in Brazil's infrastructure sector, despite the lack of explicit commitment to sustainable practices, revealing an untapped potential to attract FDI and promote sustainable development. Relevance / Originality: The academic relevance of the study lies in highlighting the complexity and evolution of the performance of infrastructure sectors in terms of sustainability, whereby the task of evaluating projects becomes challenging without objective criteria, tools, and feasible goals. Theoretical / Methodological Contributions: The study helps to emphasize the need to consider sustainability from the initial phases of concession projects and to compose a framework that encompasses projects and evaluation. Social / Management Contributions: The commitment of senior management and government support are fundamental factors for the successful implementation of sustainable practices in infrastructure, with the need to review supplier selection processes to appropriately incorporate sustainability criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Complex human–environmental processes form identifiable, lasting features on the landscape that can illuminate past human behavior and human–environment interactions. We examine the anthropogenic landscape of the ancient port of Macurany, located along the middle Amazon River in Parintins, Brazil, and identify four classes of anthropogenic landscape features at the site: wharfs, middens, terra preta (dark or black earths), and cultural forests. Middens, terra preta , and cultural forests have been found at archaeological sites in regions surrounding Macurany, but wharfs have not previously been reported in Amazonian contexts predating European contact. Taken together, these features are clearly the result of anthropogenesis and represent a range of subsistence, settlement, and infrastructure-building activities pointing to an ancient society that was actively engaged in modifying the surrounding landscape for purposes beyond settlement and subsistence. Evidence for a permanent, extensive, continuously settled society practicing intensive landscape engineering in this region of Amazonia reinforces findings of dense habitation, infrastructure, and early urbanization in Amazonia prior to European contact. This research helps expand our understanding of human–environment interactions, landscape formation processes, and settlement organization in ancient Amazonia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Logo após assumir o Governo do Estado de São Paulo em 1959, Carlos Alberto de Carvalho Pinto começa a delinear o que seria uma das mais emblemáticas experiências de planejamento no Brasil, o Plano de Ação do Estado de São Paulo. Ao lado dos investimentos setoriais em justiça, educação e saúde, que viabilizaram obras paradigmáticas da arquitetura paulista, a Secretaria da Agricultura atuou durante essa experiência de planejamento com a proposição de um programa específico para o setor agrícola, o que rendeu um importante acervo documental de mais de 450 obras, que compõem redes infraestruturais para o avanço produtivo. Esse acervo inédito lança luz sobre a trajetória de personagens desconhecidos pela historiografia e atuantes nos quadros técnicos do Estado, além de contribuir para ampliar o debate sobre os horizontes do desenho moderno, apresentando arquiteturas de viéses pragmático e econômico, bem como de caráter certamente pioneiro, ao marcar uma fase de inflexão na arquitetura pública promovida pelo estado de São Paulo.

This work aims to discuss fundamental aspects of capital reproduction via the built environment and some of its contemporary developments. Not by accident, the incorporation of the built environment as a locus of accumulation is due only to the advanced development of capital as a social force. The elements that materially constitute it (Real Estate, infrastructure and other types of fixed capital for collective consumption) demand specific conditions of production and circulation that distinguish them from other commodities. Thus, the total production of space in favor of accumulation demands another deepening of the relationships that confer to it the role of realization and distribution (dispute) of the totality of social wealth. This work demonstrates theoretically these specific conditions of production and circulation - of accumulation through - the built environment. A brief digression, as Marx calls it on the Grundrisse, is resumed, one that aims at the specificity of the production of infrastructures by an interest-bearing, quoted capital. It is then articulated with the designations of the Real Estate, specifically, and those of the built environment in general, against and through financial capital. Throughout the discussions, rentism is consolidated as a fundamental form of capitalist remuneration in the built environment that gains even more strength from the connection with the financial universe. It is also from where we derive other possibilities of immediate circulation of ownership and property (by capitalization of the returns) from these particular commodities, which alternate and metamorphose in accordance with the transformation of the very conditions of production and circulation that sustain them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the role of natural gas in the urban-industrial formation of the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina and its association with the regional development process of thissub-national unit. Geographer Armen Mamigonian'stheory supports the study, which uses bibliographical and documentary research as well as an empirical approach to the subject of natural gas. The results show that the current situation of natural gas in Santa Catarina is the result of its consumption in the thermo-intensive manufacturing sector, making it another instrument that strengthens the concentration of production on Santa Catarina's Atlantic coast. Natural gas therefore has dual and contradictory characteristics, as its supply contributes to the process of socio-spatial development but reinforces regional inequality as it is not available in other regions of the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article suggests, through a bibliographical review, a reflection based on the relation between infrastructure and appreciation in real estate production, which seeks to avoid the rigidity of thinking that infrastructure can generate appreciation, since o0ur hypothesis is that capital operating in real estate seeks to benefit from this attribute. We consider it relevant to discuss this perspective that attributes a duality to infrastructure and that places it in a dimension in the production of urban space that is obscured in the blind field. It is argued, therefore, that it is necessary to recognize and break with this trajectory to give meaning to the theoretical perspective as a necessary critical foundation of the spatial problem. Believing that infrastructure generates real estate appreciation deprives the reflection capable of moving the debate forward. We assume that the appreciation in real estate production occurs through the exploitation of labor and also through the patrimonial rentier condition, in which capitalization tends to enable the increase in monopoly prices, renewing and deepening urban inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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O presente artigo apresenta as principais mudanças na geração distribuída de energia elétrica no Brasil, contemplando a aprovação do novo marco legal (Lei 14.300/2022) do setor, que entrou em vigor em janeiro de 2022. Para responder à investigação no campo da geração de energia, a pesquisa conta com estudos bibliográficos, documentais, exploratório-descritiva e de natureza qualitativa. Parte-se da compreensão da nova legislação, que de certa forma apresenta maior segurança jurídica ao setor, assegura sustentabilidade econômica aos diferentes agentes do setor elétrico brasileiro. Desta forma, apesar de a mudança na legislação ser bastante recente, com desdobramentos em curso, com impactos a serem ainda melhor mensurados, concluiu-se que o novo marco legal equilibra o incentivo à geração distribuída e viabilidade técnico-econômica no médio e longo prazo ao sistema elétrico brasileiro, em especial às distribuidoras de energia elétrica. Abstract: This article presents the main changes in the distributed generation of electricity in Brazil, contemplating the approval of the new legal framework (Law 14.300/2022) for the area, which took its effect in January 2022.To answer the research in the field of energy generation, the research relies on bibliographic, documentary, exploratory-descriptive and qualitative studies. It starts from the understanding of the new legislation, which in a way provides greater legal certainty to the area, and ensures economic sustainability to the different agents of the Brazilian electricity sector. This way, despite the change in legislation being quite recent, with ongoing developments, and having impacts to be even better measured, it was concluded that the new legal framework balances the incentive for distributed generation and gives technical-economic feasibility in the medium and long term over Brazilian electric system, especially to electric energy distributors.

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The Latin American Integration Route (RILA), also known as the Bioceanic Route, is an initiative with the potential to promote the development of the Brazil-Paraguay border zone. The creators of RILA aim, since the creation of the proposal in 2006 (which would be made official in 2015), to boost logistic activities, with the goal to increasing exports of commodities (grains, ores and meat) and, secondly, to boost regional tourism activity. In this sense, this article aims to analyze the potential and obstacles that involve the governance of tourism at the border between Brazil and Paraguay, specifically between the twin cities of Porto Murtinho (BR) and Carmelo Peralta (PY). Regarding the methodology, the present work configures a qualitative research, based on bibliographical and documentary approach, under an interdisciplinary perspective, anchored in the references of Tourism and Political Geography. The theoretical-empirical results correspond to the conceptual delimitation of what configures the governance of tourism in international border territories and the organization of the institutional matrix that will support the understanding of the organization of tourism and its governance in the researched territory. Furthermore, maps were created that demonstrate the intersection between the main tourism development policy in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and the RILA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, local and international non-governmental organizations have, for the last decade, built a network of two-way radios to connect rural communities in order to better protect them from armed groups active in the region. This article moves along this radio network to explore the concepts of remoteness and connection. Rural residents and humanitarians alike describe the region as "enclaved," drawing on Congolese experiences and conceptions of isolation and vulnerability to appeal for greater connection. The connection oЛered by radios, however, is fragile and contingent, relying on alignments, negotiations, and compromises. The article describes these negotiations at the village level (among NGOs and various local actors) and between NGOs and the state, demonstrating that connection is a negotiated and ongoing process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Resumo Este artigo desenvolve, com base na perspectiva pós-keynesiana, a hipótese de que a deterioração da infraestrutura de um país inibe o investimento privado e reduz suas sensibilidades em relação aos seus determinantes, como a taxa de juros real, crédito, taxa de câmbio real, investimento público e infraestrutura. A hipótese é testada para o período 1985-2013 para seis economias da América Latina, empregando os estimadores dynamic fixed effects, pooled mean group e cross sectionally augmented pooled mean group em um painel dinâmico heterogêneo. Os resultados indicam o impacto positivo da infraestrutura sobre a formação de capital privado. Sugerem também que a deterioração do estoque de infraestrutura promove quedas na sensibilidade do investimento privado em relação aos seus determinantes, o que reduz a potência da política econômica em estimular o investimento privado via mudanças em seus determinantes.

RESUMO Este artigo discute a importância da água na vida cotidiana de mulheres que vivem em favelas e ocupações da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, pensando a água como bem vital, imprescindível para as relações de cuidados. O texto articula o debate sobre infraestrutura urbana com o de cuidado para pensarmos sobre os modos generificados e racializados de fazer cidade. Por meio de pequenos eventos domésticos, de diálogos que as autoras tiveram com suas interlocutoras ou de descrições etnográficas mais longas, o trabalho mostra como a água carrega a força do ordinário e é um dos objetos que permite ver a potência e a vulnerabilidade que a vida diária carrega em termos de gênero, classe e raça. Descreve-se o trabalho das mulheres nos processos de fazer cidade ao relacionar a precariedade de acesso à água com a subalternidade do trabalho do cuidado como aspectos coexistentes que visibilizam as condições de profunda desigualdade dos moradores de periferias.

Resumo O artigo analisa como os principais prestadores dos serviços de água e esgoto se financiam, usando informações das demonstrações financeiras de 2016 e 2019. A caracterização das diferentes fontes de recursos junto com a comparação de sua participação nas dívidas das empresas entre os períodos tem como objetivo explicitar como os prestadores têm se financiado e identificar estratégias, bem como apontar desafios para a alavancagem futura dos investimentos. As emissões de debêntures, que no período se elevaram significativamente, foram especificamente analisadas. Diante da necessidade de mais do que dobrar a média dos investimentos realizados de 2007 a 2019 para que seja possível universalizar os serviços no país até 2033, como prevê o Plano Nacional de Saneamento Básico e o novo marco legal do saneamento, o artigo busca compreender qual o tipo de fonte de recurso é mais adequada a cada tipo de investimento dentro do setor, defendendo sua complementaridade na consecução dos investimentos para universalização. Por fim, aponta-se algumas perspectivas e desafios para a elevação dos investimentos com vistas à universalização.

O artigo aborda o processo de internacionalização das empreiteiras brasileiras durante o regime ditatorial inaugurado em 1964. Tratamos dos contratos firmados pelas construtoras brasileiras no exterior desde a década de 1960, notando características, padrões e tendências do fenômeno. Para desenvolver a análise, utilizamos fontes das empresas, memórias e periódicos divulgados no período, acessando o método quantitativo para o trabalho com os dados e os ensinamentos da economia política internacional. Concluímos, por um lado, que o movimento ganhou fôlego por conta da emergência de um mercado global de obras de infraestrutura, principalmente após o choque internacional capitalista de 1973 e, por outro, que a tendência foi viabilizada por uma ação deliberada do Estado brasileiro de promover a acumulação de capital, a formação de grandes grupos econômicos, além de proteger e projetar suas empresas no exterior a partir da década de 1970.

Infrastructure-type geographic objects correspond to a fundamental element of the contemporary geographic milieu. This article discusses some of the specificities of this type of geographic objects. To do so, we approximate the concept of economic infrastructure to the notion of technical macrosystems. We understand that both terms refer to large engineering systems that enable the operation of activities and the provision of services, allowing the proper functioning of the economic and social dynamics of a given portion of space. Also, we mobilized categories of Marxist political economy to understand how this set of geographical objects, more than acting as part of the general conditions of production, can also be constituted as a means of valorization, which occurs through its use as a specific type of fixed capital: the immobilized fixed capital of an independente kind, which we understand to correspond to a particular form of valorization of space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes how the processes of construction of the railroad and the Canal in Panama from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, generated migratory dynamics from the Caribbean and other origins, with a historiographical perspective, and also using hemerographic and primary sources, that have been little studied. This study finds that there is a dominant vector of Jamaican migration to Panama, although its magnitude is not easy to quantify. From what can be deduced, this migrant population dedicated itself to construction as skilled and unskilled workers, but also settled definitively on the Isthmus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verificou-se de que forma está distribuída a infraestrutura nas escolas públicas de ensinos fundamental e/ou médio do Paraná e quais aspectos precisam de maior atenção dos formuladores de políticas públicas, uma vez que a infraestrutura escolar pode influenciar no desempenho dos alunos e, por conseguinte, no capital humano e no crescimento econômico. Utilizaram-se microdados do Censo Escolar de 2017 e 2019 e empregou-se a Análise Fatorial. Diante dos resultados, recomenda-se a implementação de políticas que visem a melhorias nas estruturas de apoio, atividades extraclasse e aparelhamento eletrônico. Constatou-se que escolas rurais ainda requerem maior atenção das políticas públicas e que, entre as mesorregiões, o Sudeste Paranaense carece de maior atenção quanto à infraestrutura de suas escolas.

A partir da arqueologia da rede como atividade e metodologia, apresentam-se narrativas de conexão, rompimento e transmissão da infraestrutura de cabo submarino publicadas em periódicos nas décadas de 1870 e 1880, com um foco em acontecimentos dados em Pernambuco. Tal infraestrutura viabiliza a comunicação do Brasil com o restante do mundo há 150 anos, mais especificamente desde 1874, mas são poucos os estudos da área que se dedicam a tal tema. Buscadas na Hemeroteca Digital da Biblioteca Nacional, as narrativas selecionadas ajudam a entender as expectativas, as frustrações e as tensões em torno da presença do cabo submarino no território nacional. Abre-se, portanto, caminho para uma atenção ao tema nos estudos de comunicação e mídia no Brasil.

No Brasil, os crimes contra a vida são, em sua maioria, cometidos com o uso de armas de fogo e, portanto, as perícias de Balística Forense tornam-se imprescindíveis para a elucidação de crimes. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a realidade dos laboratórios de Balística Forense da região Centro-Oeste. Para possibilitar este estudo, realizou-se uma análise descritiva e qualitativa relacionada à infraestrutura e gestão dos laboratórios, especificamente quanto aos exames de confronto microbalístico, por meio da aplicação de um questionário aos representantes dos laboratórios. Dos seis laboratórios pesquisados, verifica-se que: todos utilizam dispositivos de coleta de padrões descritos na literatura; em todos os laboratórios existe pelo menos um microscópio comparador da marca Leica; e metade deles utiliza o equipamento de comparação eletrônica Evofinder®. A produtividade global dos laboratórios na realização dos exames de confronto microbalístico, calculada com base na relação entre exames concluídos e exames solicitados, variou de 66,7% (Campo Grande/MS) a 136,7% (Goiânia/GO). Quanto à gestão, cinco dos seis laboratórios são coordenados por um perito criminal. Desses, quatro afirmam utilizar alguma ferramenta de acompanhamento da produtividade, no entanto, apenas um utiliza ferramentas específicas de gestão em sua rotina. Conclui-se pela necessidade de maiores investimentos nos laboratórios de Balística Forense, sobretudo em pessoal e ferramentas de gestão, a fim de melhorar os resultados prestados à população.

Fortaleza é atualmente um hub de cabos submarinos do Atlântico, mas as memórias da presença dessa infraestrutura no imaginário da cidade ainda estão para ser salvaguardadas. Quando um cabo submarino ancorou pela primeira vez na costa da capital cearense, nos primeiros anos da década de 1880, narrativas eletroabolicionistas e fantasmagóricas vieram à superfície. Ao examinar os laços políticos e familiares do britânico William John Ayres, superintendente da Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Co., este artigo se fundamenta tanto nos estudos de infraestrutura quanto na arqueologia da rede para colaborar com estudos prévios do historiador Eduardo Silva que conectam o abolicionismo brasileiro com os efeitos sociais, culturais e políticos da chegada da tecnologia do cabo submarino. A principal colaboração do artigo é demonstrar que a apropriação política em torno dessa infraestrutura, constatada por Eduardo Silva no processo da abolição no Rio de Janeiro em 1888, foi previamente testada na abolição cearense de 1884.

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Resumo Este estudo busca identificar as principais motivações e barreiras para a atração de investimentos do mercado de capitais para o setor de infraestrutura no Brasil. Entre os resultados da pesquisa, verificou-se que os incentivos variam conforme o tipo de investidor. Pessoas físicas são fortemente atraídas pela isenção fiscal prevista na Lei nº 12.431/2011, para a compra de debêntures incentivadas, e hoje representam um dos principais investidores em infraestrutura no país. Já fundos de pensão domésticos não são incentivados pela isenção da lei - seus investimentos são isentos de Imposto de Renda - e consideram baixo o spread pago pelos emissores das debêntures incentivadas. Investidores estrangeiros avaliam como desfavorável o ambiente de investimentos no país, em função de fatores como a alta volatilidade cambial e a instabilidade política. Conclui-se, portanto, que, para suprir a lacuna de investimentos em infraestrutura, há a necessidade de reformas institucionais mais amplas para atrair investidores de longo prazo. A certificação verde de projetos de infraestrutura representa outra estratégia interessante para a atração de investimentos, sobretudo estrangeiros.

This study estimates the determinants of the elasticities of private investment and total investment for the Brazilian economy for the period between 1960 and 2013. It uses a Bayesian model averaging and weighted-average least-squares approach with a flexible accelerator model of investment equation and Kalman filtering techniques. We conclude that the aggregate infrastructure index (taken from the main component analysis) and public investment crowd-in private investment. The results indicate that private investment is constrained by the availability of bank credit. Furthermore, we find that infrastructure stock and public investment are two of the main determinants of the elasticities of private investment. This demonstrates that public investment, mainly in infrastructure, is of great importance in raising the sensitivity of private investment in the Brazilian economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The construction of astronomical observatories in the Atacama Desert has prompted different actors in Chile to envision initiatives for promoting the expansion of data infrastructure. While such projects are usually seen as synonymous with development, Lickan Antay Indigenous activists affected by the construction of an observatory consider this situation the beginning of a new chapter in their history of territorial struggle. Building upon political ontology, this article argues that the growth of data infrastructures can underpin ontological divergences concerning the territory, i.e. what territory is and its relation with other entities. To do so, it compares two divergent ontologies of territory emerging in the Chilean context. While the Natural Laboratories policy and the Datagonia project transform the territory into a source of economic resources affording opportunities for developing data infrastructure (assetized ontology of territory), Lickan Antay activists conceive of territory as a unitary whole made up by human and other-than-human interdependencies (relational ontology of territory). Based on a discursive-material analysis of interviews and documents, this article delves into the ontological dimension of data colonialism and proposes an infrastructural regime that does not reproduce terricide and is aligned with the flourishing of multiple worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A inexistência de um controle satisfatório dos processos nas obras de infraestrutura acarreta interrupções, perdas e uma ineficiente produção. Como é visto na literatura, a construção enxuta potencializa o controle sobre os processos. O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar a prática da construção enxuta em obras públicas de infraestrutura, e assim indicar as possíveis perdas e boas práticas presentes na implantação de rede coletora de esgoto. Na pesquisa, foi desenvolvido um estudo de casos múltiplos envolvendo três obras públicas, nas quais foram aplicadas entrevistas não estruturadas, baseadas no Rapid Lean Construction-Quality Rating Model (LCR). Como resultado, foram identificadas perdas, e a classificação da empresa analisada foi no nível "ccc”. Conclui-se, a partir do LCR, que existe um longo caminho para o conhecimento e aplicação dos conceitos da construção enxuta, mesmo considerando o emprego de alguns conceitos de boas práticas por parte da empresa analisada.