INNOVATION THE PRACTICES OF CONSTRUCTION OF SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOODS: JARDIM DAS PERDIZES, SÃO PAULO – BRAZIL

Abstract

The growth of the population's demand for urbanization besides the globalization of the economy and technology, leads to the depletion of natural resources, requiring a new vision of business focused on sustainability. In this scenario, the Civil construction has been acting in a participatory way in designing and thinking, aiming to reduceimpacts to the environment. The Jardim das Perdizes neighborhood, located in the Barra Funda region of São Paulo, is the first to receive the AQUA certification of sustainable neighborhood, and has several constructive techniques and equipment bringing improvement and economics of the use of natural resources, with Predictedrates of reduction of 35% of water consumption and 25% of energy consumption, in addition to the high performance of buildings, spaces and equipment. Moreover, within the undertaking there is also a park donated to the public sector with complete infrastructure, integrating the leisure space with the interrelations of society andthe ways of thinking sustainability. It is possible to observe with the study that the actions of fostering sustainable constructions benefit the environment with the reduction of raw material consumption and non-renewable resources, to the population with more planned and better income spaces and to the market Real estate, valuingbuildings.