The purpose of this work is to describe the housing policy applied in the city of São José dos Campos, São Paulo State, in the period between 2000 and 2011, emphasizing the resettlement of families from the slums and risk ...

The environmental comfort have as an objective ensure the well-being of humanity. With the release of the two editions of the “Minha casa minha vida” program, which is connected to a social initiative funded by the federal ...

The constructive method in structural masonry presents a simple execution technique, although it is still little used in Brazil. The knowledge of types of pathology, their causes, characteristics and consequences are ...

This work was mainly focused to bring to the attention of the academic world to the reality in which they live benefited from the housing program of slum upgrading in São Paulo . 04 underserved communities that are in ...

This paper presents a case study of the application of the lean construction principles in social interest housing works, through field research and use of a checklist at construction works of a 54 houses housing estate ...

The right to adequate housing is guaranteed in the Federal Constitution. Although the State is not obliged to provide housing to all inhabitants, it is duty to provide means to ensure such access. In this context, it was ...

The construction industry in Brazil is in fully development and largely its rise is due to a large financial incentive, in the housing construction, mostly by government agencies, in an attempt to decrease the existing ...

Due to the need for housing for low-income people, and various government incentives to remedy the problem of housing deficit, there is a rapid growth in the number of residential buildings popular, influencing the ...

This research presents an experimental approach of Housing of Social Interest (HSI) focusing on the issue of environmental comfort. Environmental aspects that characterize the comfort of the people who lived in the studied ...