Análisis de factibilidad para la construcción de viviendas unifamiliares utilizando el SEL (Sistema Estructural Liviano)

Abstract

According to statistics provided by the Ecuadorian Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) conducted in 2001 [6], the 43.17% of the population owns a house of reinforced concrete and wood 33.22%, which are the indices high. Given also that the rate of people in the last census conducted in 2010 [5], states that do not possess or have homeownership shack, hovel, hut and apartment buildings is 17.85%. Besides the lack of knowledge of new techniques for the construction of houses by the engineers and architects engaged only makes building with conventional systems such as concrete, wood, structures with hot-formed profiles, among others. Taking these data as a reference, the cost and time of traditional housing construction, it is necessary to develop a new system for building the population providing a fast, efficient, less expensive and reliable construction. Our thesis project aims to conduct a feasibility analysis that includes market research, technical and economical structural system about Light (SEL), known worldwide as steel framing, as a new alternative construction in our country.