Diretrizes para projeto para manutenção de edificações habitacionais

Abstract

The most critical decisions in terms of building maintenance are made during the design phase. This emphasizes the importance of Design of Maintenance, that is, the practical integration of maintenance experience into the design process in order to achieve maintainability, safety and economy of maintenance activities throughout the useful life of a building. However, there is still a lack of methods to concretely involve maintenance in the first phases of the project. Therefore, the general objective of this work is to develop and evaluate guidelines for the Maintenance Project of residential buildings. In other words, design guidelines, aimed at the maintenance of multi-family housing buildings, applicable by designers during the design process. To this end, Design Science Research (DSR) was adopted as a research method, being conducted in four stages. In the first stage, awareness, a Systematic Literature Review was carried out, together with a study of standards relating to building maintenance, identifying design practices, focused on maintenance, existing in the literature. From these practices, in the second stage, suggestion and development, the artifact was developed, that is, the guidelines for Design for Maintenance. In the third stage, evaluation, the guidelines were evaluated together with professionals with outstanding experience in the city of Juiz de Fora, including three architectural designers and three managers of construction companies, through semi-structured interviews. Finally, in the fourth and final stage, the discussions and conclusions from the evaluation of the guidelines were presented, identifying those that could be applied to the design process, according to the local contexto. These guidelines were considered in relation to flooring systems, internal and external vertical seals, roofing, plumbing systems; as well as information technology guidelines and general guidelines, which are related to the involvement of maintenance managers, material selection, layout and access. It is expected that this work will contribute to improving decision-making by designers regarding maintenance during design.