Estudo na eficiência e produtividade na etapa de revestimento externo na construção civil: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The civil construction industry is unlike those that have undergone revolutions by Henry Ford and his mechanization, for example, because of the presence of human labor, that is still necessary on a large scale, especially in less technological countries like Brazil. On the construction site, the pursuit of a greater productivity is directly linked to the idea of cost-effectiveness, as increased efficiency will reduce execution time, labor and even materials. Through a case study, this work analyzed the entire context of the current productivity of a construction project in the city of Santa Maria, RS, from which, was used the calculation of the Production Unit Ratio and the Innovative Method defined by Souza (2006), a prognosis was generated that compared the planned schedule conceived by the construction company at the beginning of the external plastering, with a future date based on productivity calculations. This comparison proved that the original target of the planned schedule couldn’t be met and identified the aspects responsible for this delay through the analysis of variations factors, such as content, context and abnormalites within the adopted method.