We must understand the reality: the construction is not perfect. Construction defects are easy to find and often originate poor and confused projects, as well as, when properly prepared, are not met in the construction ...

With the economic boom in the sector of Construction in Brazil, comes the need for companies to better results in less time, with less cost and better quality. What is noticeable, however, is that the care of the high ...

This project aims to characterize the concept of sustainability in customers and civil engineers in the field of construction, verifying how people understand, accept and apply methods and sustainable solutions in their ...

In Hydraulic and Sanitary Building Systems there are nonconformance issues that can occur when user begins occupying and interacting with the building. Among other systems, the Hot Water Building System is responsible to ...

This paper analyses the budgeting difference – quantities and costs – estimates and actual bid results, of a constructed facility in the city of Curitiba - PR. Every construction work is detailed and analyzed separately, ...

Concurrent Engineering is a systematic approach to the integrated and parallel development of a product design and the processes related to the materialization of the final item. In this way, the steps of the production ...

Nowadays in the field of Civil Construction, the only way to visualize the traditional method of time management is through the Gantt diagram, which is comped by bars, that represent the duration of the activities of the ...

As a way to improve the performance of projects in terms of timeliness, quality and productivity, the construction industry have focused on the process of Production Planning and Control (PPC). An important milestone in ...

BIM, also known in Brazil as “Modelagem da Informação da Construção” (MIC), is aprocess that has been classified as a disruptive innovation because it deeply modifies the technical solutions of an organization. The ...