Análise qualitativa das opiniões de profissionais da Construção Civil em Campina Grande - PB sobre o tópico do desempenho térmico da ABNT NBR 15575.

Abstract

The construction industry has many requirements. And one of them has been the search for thermal comfort in buildings. And in order to meet this requirement, ABNT NBR 15575 (2013) came into force in 2013 bringing as one of its strengths the issue of thermal comfort of residential buildings. From an environment with good thermal comfort one can infer low consumption of electricity and consequently lower expenses with the energy bill. The performance standard is broken down to the thermal performance standard that aims, besides thermal comfort, to generate lower energy costs in a Brazil of more than 200 million people. This paper aims to evaluate the compliance with the thermal performance requirements of ABNT NBR 15.575 (2013) by professionals in Campina Grande-PB. A questionnaire was then applied to professionals working in the city of Campina Grande in buildings that were built after July 2013 in the city of Campina Grande. Contributions include the trends of neglect, lack of study and deepening of the norm and the feeling of non-compliance with the compliance of the topic of thermal performance by construction professionals. Another relevant point was that although designers do not know exactly what makes up thermal satisfaction and thermal performance, they can generate thermal comfort for their customers.