The Federal University of Espírito Santo, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; the Fluminense Federal University, the Technical University of Lisbon and Coimbra University, through its research group participants the HCLB, would like to invite architects, engineers, archaeologists, historians, sociologists, economists and other interested researchers to participate and submit proposals for communication to the '1st International Congress of the History of Portuguese-Brazilian construction' taking place in the city of Vitoria - Espirito Santo - Brazil, 4th to 6th of September 2013.