Correia, Marcia Castilho (2019) Assessment of the quality of architectural projects for public health research laboratories: Sustainability and biosafety. PhD thesis, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Abstract
Currently in Brazil, the constituted power has been questioned by the lack of commitment to quality in public buildings and works. The problems extend from the project to the construction. Perhaps partly due to decisions made when the project started. Decisions should basically be based on technical information, not on political issues or other interests. In the form of the legislation in force, there is a requirement for a technical assessment under clear and objective requirements and criteria, for projects subject to contracts aimed at carrying out construction or renovation of public buildings. Also, when the product is delivered by the contractor, there is a requirement for a final assessment by the government to terminate the contract. The history of Public Administration reveals gross errors, since the choice of the land or the decision to proceed with the project. It is therefore necessary for the public authorities to establish ways to identify, analyze, and carry out risk management for projects and undertakings. There is a need to incorporate the user's perspective from the initial stages of the building's life cycle: quality and sustainability requirements including ease and cost of predictive building maintenance. The objective of the thesis is to deepen a discussion on these issues, and to focus on the case of buildings for health research laboratories, where biosafety requirements and compliance with the principles of sustainability are strict. It also includes the proposition of a procedure and tooling integrating these issues, regardless of whether they are developed in CAD or BIM, in order to fill the existing gap related to the objective evaluation process of the quality of projects of these public buildings, anticipating decisions of project and, thus, interfering in the chain of events of the project - construction - use process. The research methodology used considers the state of the art through literature review, evidence-based approach, root cause analysis, collective instrumental case study, qualitative participant observation, structuralist method and triangulation of methods. It ends with a proposal for validating the procedure using the concurrent validation method.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Bastos, Leopoldo Eurico Goncalves; Silvoso, Marcos Martinez and Niemeyer, Maria Lygia Alves de |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | design project; quality assessment; sustainability assessment; risk assessment; public buildings; health research laboratories |
| Index terms: | land, renovation, technical information, risk assessment, research methodology, risk management, life cycle, public health, case study, history, public building, root cause analysis, triangulation, validation, evidence, state of the art, commitment, Brazil, quality assessment, literature review, laboratory, observation, compliance, proposal, public authority, sustainability assessment, legislation, building maintenance |
| Subjects: | environmental health, administrative law, renovation and retrofit, professional development, real estate economics, architectural and construction history, data analysis and analytics, research design and methodology, risk assessment, data collection methods, value management, research management, quality assurance, sustainability assessment, financial risk, technology management, health safety and environment, Geography, psychology, legal systems, project planning, construction type, research dissemination and communication, evaluation and assessment methods |
| Topics: | Organizational Design, Urban Studies, Construction Technology, Cost Management, Information Management, Research Practice, Legal Issues, Quality Management, Risk Management, Sustainability, Health and Safety, Engineering Principles, Geographical Context, Project Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
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