ANÁLISE DE VIABILIDADE DA CONSTRUÇÃO DE CASAS POPULARES UTILIZANDO CONTAINERS EM COMPARAÇÃO A CASAS POPULARES EM ALVENARIA NÃO ESTRUTURAL DE BLOCOS CERÂMICOS

Abstract

The Construction Industry is characterized as one of the major responsible industries for the economic transactions, once it generates lots of jobs, directly or indirectly, due to the many works found around the country. This way, it’s important for this department, the development of new products and new technologies over time, because the commercial market is formed of diverse changes and, in order to follow the commercial evolution, it’s necessary to achieve the improvement of the popular practices. In Brazil, due to the increased rates of credit for the low-income population, the construction of low income houses obtained a large improvement during the last decades, because population is, constantly, searching for their own houses. Due to the fact of being produced on a large scale, low income houses tend to use an standardization among the construction methods and materials, because using large amounts of the same material leads to a final cost decrease. Nowadays, the standard method used for brazilian constructions is made of masonry, using both ceramic and concrete blocks, covering great part of the buildings that are built. However, the generation of masonry waste is one of the most important items that contribute to urban waste, because a large percentage of the materials which are used during the construction are discarded and have no more use. This project will be developed aiming to make a comparison between the tradicional methods of construction used in Brazil for low income houses with a sustainable alternative, which is the use of shipping containers that would be discarded. The specified parameters for this analysis will involve the construction timing, costs, characteristics of each method, environmental impact and people’s acceptance. Thus, in this project some results of constructions made of containers in many places of the world, including Brazil were found, besides results that shows that the brazilian economy accepts the use of constructions made of shipping containers, due to the many characteristics that differ them from the normally used constructions of masonry. Besides, a comparative study between the costs of standard low income ceramic houses and shipping container houses was held, whose results found that there’s viability in using reused shipping containers in constructions, which leads to great costs reduction.