Who we are

SKINDE is a prime FACADE ENGINEERING company, providing top-notch consultancy, design, engineering and management for curtain walling, glazed facades, metallic construction systems and building envelopes.

"Our purpose is simple: we work as partners of our customers to support the materialization of state-of-the-art project, that are achievable and sustainable. Our approach focuses the creative, technical and functional aspects of each project specific solutions in order to assure the compliance with budgeting and schedule goals."

Our team

Our TEAM, led by Acácio Soares (Technical Director) and Susana Rodrigues (Managing Director), comprises talents from multiple backgrounds, in facade, structural, mechanical engineering, and also from architecture, design, manufacturing and contracting fields.

We collaborate with...

  • Landlords / Reals Estate Developers;
  • Architects/Design offices;
  • Project Management companies;
  • Cost/Quantity Surveyors;
  • Site Supervisors / QA;
  • System Manufacturers;
  • Main Contractors / Facade Contractors;
  • Facilities Management;
  • RE Funds / Asset Management companies.

Our values

PASSION

We are passionate by what we do, and we believe that our success depends on the total commitment to what we perform and on all our attention to the big and small details.

Accuracy

We have the ambition of making SKINDE as a world class player in the consultancy, engineering and design of façade systems and building envelopes. For that, we embrace all our works with all our competencies and we answer accurately to our commitments.

Honesty

We drive all our relations with the different business stakeholders by coherence of attitude and honesty in our relations.

TRUST

We want our partners to be repeated partners. For that, we strive continuous and tirelessly to exceed the expectation of different stakeholders related with our business.

Professionalism

Because we want that our customers recognize our work as the best example, we need to be constantly in the first line of knowledge. For this reason, we promote the training and professional development of our team as one of our main priorities of investment and sustainability.

Sustainability

Our know-how must contribute to value creation, both for our clients and for the society, contributing to a better world.

Our Value Proposition

Our way is simple and clear: we work as partners of our customers to support the materialization of high end projects, that are achievable and sustainable. Our approach sustains the creativity, and details the technical and functional aspects of each project specific solutions, in order to assure the compliance with budgeting and schedule goals.

Your benefits...

  • constructive solutions are optimally designed;
  • compliance with design standards is assured;
  • space for design errors & omissions vanishes;
  • construction budgets are respected;
  • quality of site execution is reinforced;
  • pathologies & long term issues are minimized.

Our Background

Our leadership team accumulates more than 20 years experience in the façade and metallic construction industry, in a range of roles, including site management, design and project management, technical and commercial/bid management.
Prior to founding SKINDE, all our directors have been working on the delivery of complex world scale projects.

Our Tools

Building’s facades can cost from 10-30% of the construction price, and have a critical impact of its operation costs. Facades are also one of the key factors on the equation of real estate assets valuation. To achieve the most ingenious and sustainable facade solutions for our clients, we employ state of the art design, thermal/acoustic simulation and BIM software.