Comparativo de custos entre uso de tijolos de solo-cimento e blocos cerâmicos em construções populares na cidade do Recife–PE.

Abstract

Looking for new building materials, there has been increasing attention to the environmental impacts generated and ways to reduce them. In this search, the use of stabilized soil, one of the first construction materials used by humans but fell out of use due to the evolution of other technologies, has been reconsidered. This study examines the financial feasibility of using modular soil-cement bricks, comparing this construction technique with a traditionally used technique using ceramic masonry, pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of each. For this comparison, budgets were prepared for a low-cost house using each construction methodology, aiming to establish a parallel between the construction costs and the structural safety provided by each. The results obtained show that there is financial viability for the production and use of soil-cement bricks in the current construction industry, since the construction costs using this method were very close to those using the traditional method with ceramic masonry, even with the low availability and high cost of soilcement masonry.