ABSTRACT: Housing design can play an important role in the promotion of a better life in the perspective of a more sustainable urban environment. Nevertheless, even though the advances in the regulatory context of civil construction in Brazil, the normative references and wide range of instruments applicable to housing developments have not been sufficient to guarantee design quality, particularly […]
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Neglected Issues in Building Performance
ABSTRACT: The paper outlines a number of potentially very useful building performance concepts that have been ignored, forgotten or only partially adopted. The idea explored in this paper is that, despite many significant advances in specialized fields, there are also many issues that remain outside the mainstream of building research, guidelines or conventional wisdom. Some of […]