• Sustainability assessment tools
  • An assessment of the CASBEE sustainability certificate in the context of Brazilian urban projects

    ABSTRACT: In most studies, it has been taking into account the performance assessment of construction, without addressing or addressing insufficiently, the urban context in which it is inserted: the environment, the neighborhood, the city. As cause and consequence of this situation, many of the built environment promotion policies are directed solely to the construction, while larger scale projects are […]

  • Sustainability assessment tools
  • The trivialization of the sustainability in the civil construction

    ABSTRACT: This paper aims to develop a theoretical reflection about the trivialization of the sustainability concept, putting together conceptual interfaces and real cases of contemporary buildings that has improper application of the sustainability concept. The case study was based on the comparison between contemporary buildings certified by LEED and modernist buildings of the 50s, which were more efficient in […]