Braz, João Carlos Rocha (2014) Technical and economic evaluation of structural systems to eight floors residential buildings. PhD thesis, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.
Abstract
Observing the usual structural systems in Brazil, the demand for skilled labor, the consumption of natural resources for the production of materials and the impact on the final costs of implementing real estate projects, developing a survey for obtaining data to assess economic feasibility and diminish envinronmental impacts in innovative building system is needed. To establish costs parameters and, then, modify the traditional methods are also desirable. This research aims on the determination of results show that there are several ways of optimizing the consumption of building materials and labor, reducing the impacts on natural resources, and resulting in projects with lower deployment costs. For that, we used an eight floors residential building as a case study, designed with three different structural systems: structural masonry, reinforced concrete structure, and concrete walls. We checked the direct and indirect costs, analyzed variations in the number of towers and time construction for all the options to make decisions about the best construction system to adopt. Clear economic advantages of the system in concrete walls than the two other systems evaluated were found and reported.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Paulon, Vladimir Antonio |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | costs; buildings structures; case study |
| Index terms: | indirect cost, case study, residential building, natural resource, economic evaluation, building material, building system, real estate, option, skilled labour, survey, Brazil, reinforced concrete, variation, construction system, consumption |
| Subjects: | cost management, decision analysis, contractual condition, management, real estate economics, building materials, engineering systems, data collection methods, financial analysis, building construction, Geography, environmental resource management, consumer economics, construction type |
| Topics: | Research Practice, Construction Materials, Cost Management, Construction Technology, Stakeholder Management, Human Resources, Design Practice, Urban Studies, Contract Administration, Geographical Context, Engineering Principles, Procurement, Sustainability, Risk Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCEA |
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