Manutenção e desempenho em habitações de interesse social

Abstract

The Minha Casa Minha Vida Program (MCMV) - developed by the Brazilian federal government since 2009 - has delivered more than two million housing units throughout the country and it has been increasing nationwide by promoting a great encouragement and development of construction in the form of social housings, in order to cater for the country's poor population. However, it is important to notice how these housings are being delivered to their end users, whether they have the necessary information to develop maintenance, so that they can achieve the desired performance for these buildings. Nevertheless, maintenance is not restricted to the use and occupation stage. It begins in the early stages of the project, during which design decisions are made to facilitate the development of maintenance projects, and it continues in the application stage by carrying out quality works until reaching the operating, use and maintenance stages of the building, when the user gets his/her manual. In this context, the current study aims to contribute to the design, construction management and maintenance processes by establishing guidelines for preparing the User's Manual to the MCMV project buildings. Such manual must include information regarding the people involved in the project (designers, builders and users) as well as the information set in the Brazilian standards of maintenance and performance, under the entrepreneurs’ perspective.