Characterization and diagnosis of international methodologies and iram regulations for the environmental evaluation of housing: Analysis directed to the regional contextualization for arid zones of Argentina.

Abstract

This article has as aims determine the feasibility of contextualization of Environmental Assessment Methodologies (MEAs) of greater relevance at the international level that are applicable to the assessment of housing, compared to the current development of the Argentine IRAM regulations on sustainability. To do this, BREEAM, LEED, CASBEE and VERDE are analyzed on the one hand, and on the other, contextualized MEAs developed in Jordan and Korea. The theoretical study of the aforementioned MEAs is used as a research technique, through which these tools are characterized and diagnosed. As a result, we obtain the operational framework in which their developments are circumscribed, the analysis variables, the type of information contained in them and their main limitations. Respect to the national context, it is extracted that the main advances in regard to building quality, from a perspective centered on sustainability, correspond to the IRAM rules. It is concluded that the correlation between the methodology VERDE NE UNIFAMILIAR V1.G and IRAM, allows to build a system of indicators that facilitate the development of a contextualized methodology to the physical-environmental, economic and social situation of Argentina in general and in particular oriented to the case of Social Housing in Arid Zone (VSZA).