Racionalização do sistema de alvenaria de vedação utilizando bloco de concreto

Abstract

Even with major advances in supplies, equipment and building systems, construction civil industry is well known as a field which uses a lot of traditional and handcraft work during the project's execution. The objective of this paper is to analyse the execution system of rationalized non loadbearing masonry in comparison with the conventional one, based on a building site in Salvador. The methodology was divided into two parts: the first part covers the bibliographic review about the subject and all the knowledge acquired during the course. In the second part, a monitoring in the field was conducted during the project's execution until the final product – the building. With the help of photographic records and the access of documents, qualitative analysis and comparison between systems have been made. One of the first conclusions is that concrete block can be much more advantageous when aiming to rationalized masonry. Besides that, it's really important to have an engineering design and qualified team during the execution to obtain satisfactory results.