Containers na construção civil: uma alternativa viável para habitações frente ao método convencional

Abstract

The Civil Engineering area is constantly evolving, new construction techniques are constantly created for greater productivity and economy. In this context emerged an innovative method, in addition to promoting these advantages, it also brings a sustainable bias, which is essential now a days: the container construction. Not widely used in the country, the technique seeks to reuse these large steel boxes, giving them a new destination, on the one hand, and reducing the number of inputs throughout the production process in buildings, on the other. The present work, therefore, aims to show the efficiency and effectiveness of the containers in civil construction in order to highlight the potential of this constructive way as a viable alternative to the conventional method in dwellings. In order to seek basis in this comparison, a bibliographical research was first carried out, in order to technically assure the constructive process. Then, two opinion surveys were performed, in order to have access to the convictions of the professionals of the area and the general public against the method. Later, to obtain a practical vision, an interview was undertaken with owners of a house in this mold, also a visit to a hotel of the city constructed using this technique was carried out. Ultimately, we propose a project of a single-family container housing, to finally indicate the viability of this innovation as housing. We conclude, on the one hand, that the method needs to be more widely disseminated so the population can enjoy its benefits; and, on the other hand, how much this type of construction has the potential to meet the aspirations of an increasingly practical, modern and environmentally conscious society.