Aplicação do conceito de sustentabilidade em contruções residenciais

Abstract

The wide spread of a sustainability concept has been made through conferences, environmental laws and product certifications. The main reason for the spread of this new way of development refers to the consequences of the degradation men have caused to the environment.The generation of environmental impacts affects directly the economic, social and environmental issues, bringing about both public and private policies to propose strategic actions in order to reduce these impacts.There are certification systems such as BREEAM (United Kingdom), CASBEE (Japan), HQE (France), LEED (USA), that analyze the economic performance, the management of water use, natural energy, waste, pollution, environmental management, and quality of internal space of a sustainable building. The constructions are certified if they fulfill the pre-established requirements. The choice of environmentally friendly materials, from certified producers, is another issue that adds value to the product, by helping in the decrease of pollution and the emission ofgreenhouse gas and waste. The introduction of techniques to obtain comfort and energy efficiency contribute to the use of available natural resources, if applied in an integrated way, following the systemic concept of sustainability. The purpose is to seek, through techniques of energy conservation and renewable energy, the development of a consistent project cohesive with the place it will be built.