Quality certification system of office buildings in Brazil. / Sistema de certificação da qualidade de edifícios de escritórios no Brasil.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

It is notorious how widely ranged are the classifications used at the real estate market to indicate the quality of office buildings. To support any decision related to the office building product it is convenient to have one and only information regarding the quality of these buildings. This quality certification system stratify the office buildings market in a discerning, impartial and single way at the national sphere. The buildings submitted to this certification system are classified considering the conditions of some attributes. Each evaluated building get two classifications: one national and another regional, both represented by letters. The national classification has the extension “Br” to be distinguished from the regional classification. The national classification takes into account only the physical attributes of the construction, without regards to its location. The regional classification considers the building’s physical attributes and its location in a specific office market area. On both classifications the building management is not evaluated. The quality of the appraised office building is represented by these two classifications in a certificate issued by the Real Estate Research Group of the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (Núcleo de Real Estate da Escola Politécnica da USP). This system’s appliance procedures and rules were established in this study. Some of this system’s components are perishable including the issued certificates. This subject was treated in this research. Routines and terms were also defined to be applied to bring these components up to date and to verify the certificate’s validity. The procedures followed to elaborate this certification system were: library researches, interviews with participants of the office buildings market in Brazil, visits to edifications of this real estate market division, observations in the office buildings market and initial arbitrations, followed by validation and calibration tests and adjustments. The arbitrations were applied to elaborate some components of this certification system. The prevalent opinions in the specialized ambiency were used in important arbitrations. The Delphi process combined with Describing Statistic practices were applied to find out these opinions. This research intends to improve the quality of the information produced about office buildings in Brazil. Its guidelines may be used to develop similar researches in other divisions of the real estate market in Brazil or in foreign countries, and also in this same market section but abroad.

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edifícios de escritórios office buildings quality certification system classificação de edifício sistema de certificação da qualidade building classification

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