Brazillian coastal zones concentrate the majority of the country’s urban population. The coast’s urbanizationpromotes the vulnerability of the coastal ecosystems, which already have a high degree of fragility due to their ...

Urban parks are free spaces for leisure, recreation and circulation that contribute to the quality of urban life. This research sought to analyze, through landscaping, the neighborhood parks in the middle city of Santa ...

This dissertation presents the identification, analysis and evaluation of open spaces in the middle city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Through the methodological contribution of multicriteria analysis, the ...

The study aimed to feature the cultural heritage and scenery along the route of existing Catholic buildings in Silveira Martins - RS county, as a way of supporting sustainable preservation. Therefore, a qualitative ...

Considering the civil construction context – marked by the constant technological progress, diversity of specialties, and professionals involved, as well as by the complexity of the existing technical and bureaucratic ...

The building construction sector is among the major contributors to global warming, due to excessive emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by anthropogenic activities. As for buildings, actions to mitigate the environmental ...

In the last decades, much of the work of researchers and urban planners has been pointing to a growing and necessary paradigm shift in the public space of the city streets. This change refers to a new vision about the ...

Emergency signs are key elements to ensure correct orientation of people in an evacuation process, especially for large public places. Fires with a high number of fatalities in nightclubs, such as Nightclub Kiss (Brazil) ...

The use of vegetation as a bioclimatic strategy in the built environment is widely recognized for the benefits related to thermal comfort, a characteristic arising from the use of vegetation in the urban environment, ...

Faced with the growth of the construction industry in Brazil, discussions that were already happening internationally on the performance of buildings began to gain space in the country. The standard "ABNT NBR 15575 – ...