Inserção da taipa de pilão mecanizada com apiloamento pneumático no mercado da construção sustentável no Brasil

Abstract

This paper work aims to describe the current use of the technique of building with mechanized rammed earth with as a technological and constructive sustainable system. The historic and the description of that technic are presented from the vernacular system of manual rammer and timber formwork up to the mechanized use of it with the metallic molds system, widely used nowadays in buildings of reinforced concrete. Overviews of current Brazilian and worldwide use of mechanized framed soil are also presented. At the end, arguments about advantages and disadvantages of rammed soil construction in mechanized soil rammer are developed by indicating The potentialities and difficulties of entering and difficulties of entering in the market of sustentable construction in Brazil.