{"id":75327,"date":"2026-09-12T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=75327"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:36:43","slug":"evtea-infrastructure-technical-economic-environmental-feasibility-study","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/content\/technical-articles\/evtea-infrastructure-technical-economic-environmental-feasibility-study\/","title":{"rendered":"EVTEA: What It Is and How to Structure Infrastructure Feasibility Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EVTEA is a Technical, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility Study used to evaluate infrastructure investment alternatives and determine whether benefits, costs, constraints, and risks justify advancing a project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is an EVTEA?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is an integrated set of technical, economic, and environmental studies. 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Roads, ports, airports, sanitation, mobility, and other sectors may organize their studies differently.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DNIT, for example, structures its EVTEAs into survey, diagnosis, alternatives, fieldwork, cost, and economic-analysis phases. Recent ANTAQ port-concession processes use specific modules for market, engineering, operations, finance, and environmental matters. The architecture changes, but the logic remains: compare alternatives on a consistent multidisciplinary basis.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The central question of an EVTEA is a decision question<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An EVTEA should not be prepared merely to \u201cjustify\u201d a project that has already been selected. Its role is to determine whether there is a technically executable, economically justified, and environmentally manageable alternative, and which configuration provides the best balance among benefits, costs, risks, and constraints.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This requires comparison criteria to be defined before the conclusion. Without criteria, the study risks accumulating data without producing a clear decision.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-a3a-destaque\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A high-quality EVTEA compares alternatives and records why a solution was selected; it does not start with a winning solution and then search for arguments to confirm it.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/levantamento-e-diagnostico\/analise-de-viabilidade-financeira\/\">Learn about Technical and Economic Feasibility Studies<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Baseline: the current state must be understood<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before studying alternatives, the baseline must be established. This includes existing assets, capacity, performance, coverage, failures, current costs, physical constraints, land status, environmental data, and operating conditions.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In brownfield projects, the baseline is particularly critical. If asset condition is unknown, the study may underestimate rehabilitation, upgrades, and reinvestment. In such cases, as-built surveys, inspections, and <a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/levantamento-e-diagnostico\/due-diligence\/\">Technical Due Diligence<\/a> should be part of the study plan.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Demand and market<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Demand forecasting defines an important part of project scale. The study should assess historical data, trends, seasonality, growth, coverage, unmet demand, substitutes, competition where applicable, and external variables that may change future behavior.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forecast quality depends on consistency between data and the time horizon. The longer the analyzed period, the more important it is to work with scenarios and sensitivity rather than presenting a single curve as certainty.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Field surveys and primary data<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secondary data rarely answer every question. An EVTEA may require counts, inspections, topography, geotechnical investigations, environmental campaigns, inventories, consumption measurements, origin-destination surveys, asset surveys, or other specific data collection.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The field plan should be driven by gaps identified during diagnosis. Collecting data unrelated to the decision increases cost without necessarily reducing uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Engineering alternatives<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The technical core of an EVTEA is the comparison of alternatives capable of meeting the same service objective. Each alternative should be described in terms of capacity, implementation, interfaces, operating requirements, expansion, maintenance, and limitations.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The level of definition must be sufficient to estimate costs and risks on a comparable basis without prematurely advancing to detailed design. In many cases, a <a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/planejamento\/projeto-conceitual-de-engenharia\/\">Conceptual Engineering Design<\/a> or an <a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/planejamento\/anteprojeto-de-engenharia\/\">Preliminary Engineering Design<\/a> provides the technical basis for this comparison.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Capacity, performance, and expansion<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sizing only for initial demand can transfer costs and risks to just a few years after implementation. The EVTEA should relate nominal capacity, effective capacity, service level, redundancy, expected growth, and expansion triggers.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Triggers must be observable and measurable. \u201cExpand when necessary\u201d is a weak assumption; criteria based on utilization, queues, coverage, availability, or another operating indicator allow future investment to be linked to verifiable conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Operating model<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technical feasibility does not end at implementation. The study must verify how the asset will be operated, which teams and competencies will be required, which maintenance routines will exist, how failures will be handled, and which support systems will be needed.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This operating layer is essential for estimating OPEX and performance. An alternative with lower CAPEX may require staffing, energy, or maintenance that makes it less efficient over the life cycle.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CAPEX: an estimate consistent with maturity<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CAPEX should be derived from the technical alternative, not defined before it. Preliminary quantities, parametric costs, reference databases, and contingencies must be documented together with scope assumptions.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/planejamento\/orcamento-obras-servicos-engenharia\/\">Cost Engineering<\/a> helps separate the cost of construction, equipment, design, land acquisition, licensing, supervision, integration, commissioning, and other relevant components.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">OPEX and life-cycle costs<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OPEX should reflect the planned operating model. Energy, personnel, maintenance, consumables, software, telecommunications, insurance, specialized services, and replacements must be estimated from the technical cost drivers of the alternative.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contracts or long-horizon analyses, reinvestments should be explicit. The study of <a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/conteudo\/artigos-tecnicos\/tco-custo-ciclo-vida-engenharia-alternativas-capex\/\">TCO and life-cycle cost<\/a> complements the initial CAPEX assessment.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Schedule and critical path<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Implementation time affects benefits, cost, financing, and risk. The EVTEA should develop a schedule consistent with engineering, licensing, land, contracting, mobilization, critical supplies, construction, testing, and start of operations.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The schedule does not need execution-level detail, but it must reveal dependencies capable of changing the in-service date. An unrealistic schedule can make an alternative appear feasible even though, in practice, it will not deliver benefits within the expected horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Environmental dimension and constraints<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The environmental dimension should not appear only as an isolated chapter. Environmental restrictions may change alignment, location, technology, construction method, schedule, cost, and even the feasibility of the alternative itself.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EVTEA must identify sensitive areas, likely licensing needs, known constraints, existing liabilities, and additional studies required. The level of depth varies by sector and project stage, but interfaces with engineering and schedule must be explicit.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Social and territorial aspects<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social impacts, land acquisition, resettlement, accessibility, territorial inclusion, and effects on users may alter costs and benefits. The study should identify affected groups, critical areas, and institutional dependencies that may change implementation.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In public infrastructure, benefit is not limited to revenue. Reduced travel time, increased coverage, safety, reliability, loss reduction, and improved quality may be central to the economic justification.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Economic evaluation is not the same as financial modeling<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Economic evaluation seeks to compare costs and benefits to society. Financial modeling, in turn, examines cash flows, remuneration, financing, and returns to the project or investor. Although related, these are different analyses.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DNIT, for example, explicitly uses indicators such as IRR, NPV, and benefit\/cost ratio in its process to compare alternatives. The appropriate methodology and indicators must respect the sector and the purpose of the study.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits must be demonstrable<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Benefits should arise from a clear causal chain. If an alternative reduces failures, for example, the study must demonstrate how the technical intervention increases availability and how that availability translates into a measurable benefit.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Excessively abstract benefits or benefits without a data basis undermine the comparison. Traceability among intervention, effect, and economic indicator is an essential part of study quality.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-a3a-destaque\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An economic indicator does not correct a weak technical assumption. If demand, capacity, cost, or schedule are wrong, NPV and IRR will simply reproduce the error with an appearance of precision.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/planejamento\/orcamento-obras-servicos-engenharia\/\">Learn about Cost Engineering for Construction and Services<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sensitivity analysis<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EVTEA should test variables capable of changing the decision: demand, CAPEX, OPEX, implementation time, service life, residual value, maintenance costs, and other relevant drivers. Sensitivity analysis shows which assumptions deserve greater validation effort.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If small changes in a single parameter make an alternative infeasible, the study must record that fragility. This is decision information, not a defect in the study.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Risks and uncertainties<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Risk should not be addressed only at the end. Comparison among alternatives must consider exposure to construction, geotechnical conditions, licensing, demand, interfaces, technology, operations, input availability, and obsolescence.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/servicos-transversais\/gerenciamento-de-riscos-de-engenharia\/\">Engineering Risk Management<\/a> helps organize causes, events, consequences, mitigation, and impacts on cost and schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Residual value and analysis horizon<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study horizon must be compatible with service life, demand, and the investment cycle. When assets retain economic value after the analyzed period, treatment of residual value must be explicit and methodologically consistent.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Different horizons among alternatives can distort the comparison. The time basis must be harmonized or differences must be justified.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Traceability of assumptions and sources<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An EVTEA must be auditable. Each relevant assumption should identify its source, date, method, responsible party, and limitations. This applies to demand, quantities, costs, productivity, service life, benefits, and environmental parameters.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traceability reduces rework in later stages and allows the study to be updated without rebuilding its entire logic. When the project advances to a concession or PPP, this basis also supports the data room, bidder clarifications, and independent review.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Compatibility across disciplines<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study loses quality when engineering, demand, environmental, and economic work use different scenarios. The alternative used for CAPEX must be the same one considered in operations, schedule, environmental impacts, and economic evaluation.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Revisions in one discipline should propagate their effects to the others. This interface governance is one of the main differences between a collection of reports and an integrated feasibility study.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EVTEA and the structuring of concessions and PPPs<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An EVTEA can feed a structuring process but does not replace contractual modeling. It provides diagnosis, alternatives, demand, costs, schedule, risks, and constraints. The concession or PPP stage turns this information into mandatory investments, targets, indicators, risk allocation, payment mechanisms, tariffs, public payments, and handback rules.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The more traceable the EVTEA, the smaller the gap between study and contract. Assumptions that do not reach contractual annexes lose their ability to guide execution.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EVTEA, feasibility study, and ETP are not automatically equivalent<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Document names vary among procurement regimes, sectors, and institutions. ETP, technical and economic feasibility study, and EVTEA may share content, but they have different purposes and normative bases. The acronyms should not be treated as synonyms without verifying the contracting context.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scope should be built from the decision that must be made and the applicable sector-specific requirements. Naming comes after the problem and deliverables have been defined.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EVTEA quality criteria<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>genuinely comparable alternatives;<\/li><li>traceable data and assumptions;<\/li><li>integration among demand, engineering, environmental, and economic analyses;<\/li><li>costs consistent with the level of definition;<\/li><li>a schedule consistent with licensing and implementation;<\/li><li>explicit risks and sensitivities;<\/li><li>demonstrable benefits;<\/li><li>a conclusion tied to decision criteria;<\/li><li>a clear record of remaining gaps.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Typical technical deliverables<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The composition should be sector-specific, but a robust package may include diagnosis, database, demand studies, field surveys, conceptual alternatives, technical memoranda, CAPEX and OPEX estimates, schedule, environmental analysis, economic evaluation, sensitivity, risks, and a concluding report.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diagrams, maps, layouts, quantities, and calculation records should be delivered in a form that can be reused in the next stage, avoiding the need for structuring to start again from zero.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to prepare the EVTEA terms of reference<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The terms of reference must define the decision objective, study area, available data, minimum alternatives, required surveys, cost methodology, time horizon, economic criteria, environmental interfaces, interim products, and acceptance criteria.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should also provide for multidisciplinary review cycles. Delivering every chapter only at the end increases the risk of incompatibilities among disciplines and reduces the contracting authority&#8217;s ability to correct assumptions before they contaminate the entire study.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to procure and manage an EVTEA<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Procurement should combine specialties proportionate to the subject: engineering, operations, costs, environmental, demand, and economics, among others. Governance must define responsibilities for integration, review, interface management, and version control.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/planejamento\/planejamento-tecnico-contratacoes-engenharia\/\">Technical Planning for Engineering Procurement<\/a> helps convert the need for the study into a verifiable scope, while an <a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/servicos-transversais\/emissao-de-pareceres-tecnicos\/\">Engineering Technical Opinion<\/a> can support independent reviews of critical deliverables.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When an EVTEA needs to be updated<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Relevant changes in demand, scope, sector legislation, asset condition, prices, licensing, or technical solution may make parts of the study obsolete. Updating does not necessarily mean redoing everything: traceability makes it possible to identify which modules were affected.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before using an older EVTEA as the basis for a procurement process, it is prudent to verify the base date, critical assumptions, and how well the scope matches the current project.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Geotechnical, topographic, and physical investigations by sector<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not every EVTEA requires the same field campaigns, but physical site conditions cannot be treated as assumptions when they materially affect the alternative. Topography, geotechnics, hydrology, bathymetry, as-built surveys, and structural inspections are examples of investigations that may be required depending on the type of infrastructure.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The level of investigation should be proportional to the risk of the decision. The objective is not to eliminate every uncertainty before detailed design, but to avoid selecting an alternative based on physical conditions that later prove incompatible with cost, schedule, or construction method.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Constructability and implementation strategy<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two technically functional alternatives may have very different implementation risks. Constructability analysis examines access, work fronts, interferences, required shutdowns, temporary occupation, execution sequence, continuity of service, and logistical constraints.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This assessment helps turn a conceptual design into a plausible schedule. For operating assets, the alternative that minimizes disruptions may generate greater value even with slightly higher CAPEX because it reduces transition risk and service loss.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supply chain and long-lead items<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imported equipment, transformers, special systems, electromechanical components, and technologies with few suppliers may define the critical path. The EVTEA should assess market availability, typical manufacturing lead times, currency exposure, logistics, and the possibility of performance-based specifications.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not final procurement, but an executability check. A solution whose implementation depends on supply conditions incompatible with the schedule must incorporate that risk into the comparison.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Phasing and investment optionality<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An alternative does not need to be fully implemented on day one. Phasing can reduce exposure to uncertain demand, bring benefits forward, and preserve adaptability. The EVTEA should compare when phased investment is technically possible and which additional interface, mobilization, or future-expansion costs it creates.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Optionality is particularly relevant when demand, technology, or the regulatory environment may change. A modular architecture may have a higher initial unit cost while avoiding idle capacity and irreversible investment. The study should make this trade-off visible.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resilience, continuity, and extreme events<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critical infrastructure must consider failures, climate events, power interruptions, supply unavailability, and other conditions capable of affecting service. The level of analysis varies by sector, but alternatives should also be compared by their ability to maintain or recover operations.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Resilience may change redundancy, asset location, physical protection, contingency inventory, and maintenance strategy. These requirements affect CAPEX and OPEX and therefore must appear before the final economic evaluation.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Interfaces and responsibility matrix<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EVTEA should identify interfaces with existing networks, other operators, licensing authorities, utility companies, municipalities, and third parties. Each interface needs assumptions regarding responsibility, timing, and dependencies.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An interface matrix reduces the risk of omitted costs and helps distinguish what belongs to the studied alternative from what depends on external parties. When an interface remains undefined, its uncertainty must be recorded and addressed in the risk analysis.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Counterfactual: compare against the no-project scenario<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Benefit evaluation requires a reference scenario. It is not enough to compare alternatives with one another; the study must understand what happens if the investment is not made or if current operations are maintained with only minimal interventions.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This counterfactual avoids attributing to the project benefits that would occur anyway and helps measure the costs of delay, loss of capacity, backlog growth, or service degradation. The \u201cdo nothing\u201d hypothesis must also be technically realistic.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contingency and estimate maturity<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lower the level of engineering definition, the greater the uncertainty around quantities and prices tends to be. Therefore, contingencies should reflect risks and maturity rather than function as an arbitrary percentage added at the end of the spreadsheet.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EVTEA should distinguish base cost, contingency, and specific risks when the adopted methodology allows. This makes the estimate updateable and avoids double counting when certain risks are already embedded in prices, productivity, or the schedule.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Independent review and quality gates<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multidisciplinary studies benefit from reviews at intermediate milestones: diagnosis, alternatives, selected solution, costs, economic evaluation, and final report. Independent review verifies the consistency of assumptions and interfaces without replacing the responsibility of the authors.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A gate should ask whether the available evidence is sufficient to advance or whether a material uncertainty must first be resolved. This logic prevents errors from one stage from simply being carried into subsequent stages with greater detail.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Digital deliverables and reuse during structuring<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the report, the contracting authority should receive databases, spreadsheets, drawings, models, calculation records, maps, and assumption registers in usable formats. A standalone PDF reduces the ability to update the study and forces future teams to reconstruct information.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the EVTEA will support a PPP or concession, editable and traceable deliverables facilitate the data room, preliminary design, cost estimates, modeling, public consultation, and procurement clarifications. Information management is part of the technical value of the study.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final considerations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A useful EVTEA should support decision-making among alternatives and record assumptions, data, and uncertainties in a traceable manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-a3a-destaque\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An EVTEA should compare alternatives, not merely justify the preferred alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/levantamento-e-diagnostico\/analise-de-viabilidade-financeira\/\">Learn about Technical and Economic Feasibility Studies<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Technical references<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[1] DNIT. Technical, Economic and Environmental Feasibility Study &#8211; EVTEA. Available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.br\/dnit\/pt-br\/assuntos\/planejamento-e-pesquisa\/planejamento\/covide-estudos-de-viabilidade\/estudo-de-viabilidade-tecnica-economica-e-ambiental-evtea\">DNIT \u2014 EVTEA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[2] ANTAQ. Public Hearing No. 04\/2026 &#8211; VDC04 &#8211; EVTEA. Available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.br\/antaq\/pt-br\/acesso-a-informacao\/participacao-social\/audiencias-e-consultas-publicas\/audiencias\/04-2026-vdc04\/04-2026-evtea-1\">ANTAQ \u2014 EVTEA VDC04<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Frequently asked questions<\/summary>\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-o-que-significa-evtea-dd9f0cdb\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">What does EVTEA mean?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Technical, Economic and Environmental Feasibility Study.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-existe-um-modelo-nico-de-evtea-14cc44ef\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">Is there a single EVTEA model?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">No. The content and level of detail vary according to the sector, asset, project stage, and requirements of the competent authority.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Additional technical materials<\/summary>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Main content on this topic<\/h4>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/?post_type=articles&amp;p=81657&amp;preview=true\">Pre-Feasibility in PPPs and Concessions<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related services<\/h4>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/levantamento-e-diagnostico\/analise-de-viabilidade-financeira\/\">Technical and Economic Feasibility Study<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/servicos\/planejamento\/orcamento-obras-servicos-engenharia\/\">Cost Engineering<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related technical content<\/h4>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com.br\/conteudo\/artigos-tecnicos\/project-readiness-engenharia-avaliacao-prontidao-projeto\/\">Project Readiness in Engineering<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understand what EVTEA is and how to integrate demand, engineering, CAPEX, OPEX, environmental aspects, economic evaluation, risks, and decision-making in infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_a3a_global_related_solutions":[],"_a3a_global_related_services":[],"_a3a_global_related_materials":[],"_a3a_post_lang":"en-us","_a3a_translation_group_id":"315657db-367b-4456-9b41-fa5e07bbbc5c","_a3a_i18n_canonical_slug":"evtea-infrastructure-technical-economic-environmental-feasibility-study","_a3a_lang_url_en-us":"","_a3a_lang_url_es-es":""},"categories":[],"segments":[],"mercados":[],"etapas":[],"class_list":["post-75327","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/75327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/75327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75336,"href":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/75327\/revisions\/75336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75327"},{"taxonomy":"segments","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/segments?post=75327"},{"taxonomy":"mercados","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mercados?post=75327"},{"taxonomy":"etapas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a3aengenharia.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etapas?post=75327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}