10th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction - Gramado, Brazil - 2002

Design Process at Public Companies Dealing With Housing Production - Evaluation by Means of a Case Study

Kelly P. Inouye1, Silvio B. Melhado2 & Ubiraci E.L. Souza3

1Graduate student, Departamento de Construção Civil e Urbana – Av. Prof, Almeida Prado, Trav. 02, no 380 Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, CA: 05508-900, 550/113091-5459, [email protected]
2Associate Professor Departamento de Construção Civil e Urbana – Av. Prof, Almeida Prado, Trav. 02, no 380 Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, CA: 05508-900, 550/113091-5164 ,[email protected]
3Associate Professor Departamento de Construção Civil e Urbana – Av. Prof, Almeida Prado, Trav. 02, no 380, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, CA: 05508-900, 550/113091-5428, [email protected]

Abstract

This paper evaluates the housing design process, at public companies, and suggests ways to improve it. The evaluation results come from a case study developed at CDHU, a very large Brazilian company dealing with housing building production. Interviews with designers, accesses to the company rules and to its home pages provide the basis for understanding the design process. The authors focused on a specific housing program, named “Empreitada Global” or EG, adopted at 76%4 of the company production during the last seven years. Understanding the design process flow was considered to be the first step to attain the goal of this research. After its description, an analysis over the design process is conducted and suggestions are made in order to help avoid detected problems. All the actions proposed are discussed in terms of advantages and difficulties expected on the action implementation.

Keywords

Design process, public housing program

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Inouye, K. P. , Melhado, S. B. & Souza, U. E. 2002. Design Process at Public Companies Dealing With Housing Production - Evaluation by Means of a Case Study, 10th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction , -. doi.org/

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