An evaluation of the improvement of thermal comfort with the incorporation of sustainable materials in selfbuild dwellings in bosa, Bogotá, Colombia

Abstract

The use of sustainable materials incorporates environmental benefits, especially for large cities due to the current high levels of pollution (Fernández-Agüera, Domínguez-Amarillo, Alonso, & Martín-Consuegra, 2019). Cement, brick and Steel is the most used materials in construction and they are the ones that generate the most CO2 emissions in its manufacturing process. This article assesses how the incorporation of sustainable materials could improve thermal comfort in a home in the process of self-construction, in the San José de Bosa neighborhood in Bogotá, Colombia. The problem of Comfort was addressed as a fundamental condition of housing. Housing responds to a need for habitat understood as the need to have its own space regardless of the way in which this space responds to climatic variables. In the methodology used, periodic measurements were made with the objective of determining the thermal balance and how the materials used responded to the existing climatic conditions, to improve thermal comfort, sustainable materials were incorporated and measurements were made to determine if the new materials thermally insulated the House.