Um estudo sobre a sustentabilidade

Abstract

Sustainable development has become one of the conditionings for most of the diverse sectors to evolve efficiently, especially in face of the recent global climatic events. In this context, civil construction is a key sector for this development to be effectively achieved since besides the high renewable and non-renewable materials consumption, there are several intrinsic impacts to the sector that still need to be solved, such as waste generation. Considering the presented situation, this work aims to conduct a study on Sustainability, evidencing its evolution over the years, and, this way, identifying some sustainable building strategies. The main impacts resulted from civil construction activities are also explained. The adopted research methodology was the “qualitative exploratory” one, benefiting from a bibliographic review for the development of a brief case study, which was promoted in an internal environment of EEUFMG. In this study, were observed a series of micro-attitudes and micro-politics capable of aware people to the issue of Sustainability. One of the main results achieved in this research indicates that sustainability essentially depends on the population's awareness about the environmental and socioeconomic problems that are currently felt. This philosophy also implies on the development of conscious and harmonic attitudes among these pillars. Only then, and not before that, with the population awareness on these issues, each one can do its part for the socio-environmental well-being of the planet.