Soil-cement masonry brick production and construction process mapping for social interest housing

ABSTRACT Sustainability issue is growing more and more, along with the need to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide around the world. So, projects, techniques and materials that don’t harm the environment are gaining ground in research and markets. This work has as main objective a case study of the production and construction process of soil-cement brick, better known as ecological brick, of a SIH (Social Interest Housing) in the city of Limeira-SP. Other pertinent objectives of this research are the mapping of the productive process of the bricks, which are produced by the borrower himself in the brick factory, and the material flow mapping on construction. For this, Lean concepts will be addressed such as: Lean construction and value flow mapping (VSM) will be addressed. The results were satisfactory, so that a reduction without time of production in the ecological pottery of the soil-cement bricks is proposed in almost 50%, using value-flow mapping. It was possible to reduce in two days the time of construction of masonry of soil-cement brick to a residence of approximately 50m2, only to introduce activities in parallel and to use a labor with more efficient way.