Sustainability in architecture: project references / Sustentabilidade em arquitetura: referências para projeto

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2008

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Questions about sustainable construction have been showing themselves of great importance among the various considerations needed by the architecture field nowadays. From the confrontation of these questions the proper process of project can benefit, nourishing itself of new data and factors that enrich it and raise the level of the building production. In the national context specifically, where the urgency of supplying the most basic necessities, specially in the social area, coexists with wastefulness and improvisation in the construction sector, studying how to answer these questions becomes crucial to the good development of the civil construction sector. The possible benefits reached in the construction area certainly have an ample reach, including the social one. From the evidence that the sustainable construction subject still reveals itself incipient in the brazilian´s constructive practice context, it is proposed in this work the analysis of the civil construction sector´s conjuncture in Brazil, of the tools and existing instruments, directly or indirectly related to the implementation of more sustainable practices in the phase of project, considered in this work as the basic link of the whole productive chain of buildings. Thus, the objective of this work is to systematize the gathered information, composing a state of the art of the questions related to the sustainable construction in Brazil, identifying possible problems during the conception of the project, and to establish possible references to the implementation of the concept in the constructive culture. The references are structured in international experiences, normative or certification related references, references about the production of Brazil´s main construction materials, and references of practical experiences recently made in the national market. Through the study of these various raised references, the differences between the dynamics of the civil construction chain in countries where the subject of sustainabilty finds itself in full development and the Brazilian reality become clear. The results disclose a conjuncture problem in the Brazilian context, mainly marked by the absence of the governmental sectors in the composition of the construction chain in a effective way, either in the leadership of the discussions, by the establishment of plans and goals to the other agents, either in the creation of demand, raising the quality standards in the production of buildings. This governmental absence leaves a space for short-term answers to the new demand proposed by the construction market itself, by the some times isolated initiative of professionals and companies, lacking an effective planning for the sector´s development in the direction of a more sustainable way to construct.

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architecture project arquitetura sustainability sustentabilidade projeto construção sustentável sustainable construction

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