Ciclo de vida de la construcción de la vivienda Ciudad Alegría, Loja

Abstract

Abstract:The present work addresses the problem of environmental impacts, CO2 emissions and energy consumption, caused by the architecture, engineering and construction sector; and it exposes the use of the life cycle analysis (LCA) methodology applied to the housing type construction, specifically the social housing type of the project Ciudad Alegría in Loja - Ecuador, in order to evaluate their environmental burdens. The application of the LCA is focused on the need to quantify, evaluate and interpret, the environmental impacts caused by large-scale single-family housing projects, which is the main protagonist of the growth of built urban footprint and also causing most of the environmental impacts caused by the construction sector. The objective is to arrive at a qualitative and quantitative interpretation that relates the constructive systems of housing with energy consumption and CO2 emissions, and to define the binding factors of housing and environmental impacts; the results are used to develop strategies that allow having a better control in the sustainable development of housing construction.