Construção sustentável: um estudo de caso na cidade de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

Sustainable construction emerged with the definition of sustainable development and the idea of preserving the planet for future generations. Since civil engineering is a sector with great environmental impacts, professionals in the area become responsible for the entire process carried out for a construction, from material specifications to the end of the cycle, always studying and discovering new ways of building, reducing energy consumption, water and waste generation. Based on this concept, a case study was carried out of a house designed in a sustainable way in 2008, carrying out a survey regarding its processes of reduction of such parameters, identifying the constructive methods that were used and making proposals of recommendations for strengthening of this concept in the useful life cycle of the building. This is a documental and bibliographic work because it uses previously published materials. At the end of the study, it can be concluded that the object of study has resources still widely used in sustainable construction and that the recommendations made were solutions that add what has already been done, in addition, it was evident that the use of certifications for if building a single-family building would make it economically unfeasible, requiring the use of alternative methods that add construction.