Requisitos e critérios para projetos habitacionais: em busca de um desempenho ampliado

Abstract

Effective in Brazil since 2013, ABNT Standard 15575 brings guarantees to the quality of multifamily housing, as it establishes requirements and criteria related primarily to the physical properties of the building’s technological systems. However, the standard defines only minimum requirements and a performance of limited scope, which does not address crucial issues in a more comprehensive way – such as importance of the interaction between the conception of the project and the choice of technological systems, the assessment of human responses or the contribution to various aspects of sustainability or to development. This paper seeks to highlight the need of coordinating architects, builders, suppliers and other agents such as institutions and regulatory agencies involved in the construction industry around this issue: the organization of this discussion will bring subsidies for a learning process concerning requirements/attributes to be prioritized in decision-making, allowing for a performance improvement in multifamily housing.