SUSTAINABLE AND DESIGN BUILDING PROCESSES

The article presents a historical revision of the sustainable development and the sustainable in the constructed environment. It describes the main concepts and practices for implantation of the sustainable in the civil construction. These concepts and practices are reviewed from the perspective of...

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Main Authors: Silvio F. R. MOTTA, Maria Teresa P. AGUILAR
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2009-05-01
Series:Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.usp.br/gestaodeprojetos/article/view/50953
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Summary:The article presents a historical revision of the sustainable development and the sustainable in the constructed environment. It describes the main concepts and practices for implantation of the sustainable in the civil construction. These concepts and practices are reviewed from the perspective of the dialectic method, the general theory of systems and the theories of creative processes. These concepts are also analyzed from the perspective of quality management. The article proposes a model based on the dialectic, in which sustainability is considered an open system and a search inventive. The implantation of the sustainable in projects, companies and design processes are considered as main strategy. A vertical insertion of the sustainable in the process is proposal. In this vertical insertion, the sustainable is presents in all the phases and activities of the process. The model is organized to promote the external creative solutions to the process, through the promotion of research centers. Tools of selection of possibilities and practical are suggested, considering the characteristic dialectics proposals. The article concludes that sustainable is a cultural change in the processes, practical and management current.
ISSN:1981-1543