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    <title>Gestão da qualidade nas empresas de construção e o valor da Certificação ISO 9000</title>
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    <description>Título próprio: Gestão da qualidade nas empresas de construção e o valor da Certificação ISO 9000
Autoria: Torres Curado, Miguel
Resumo: This essay aims to examine and discuss the certification of construction companies, assessing their attitudes and contributing with information concerning the implementation and value of third party certification of their quality systems. The evolution of quality through the ages is analysed. The different types of certification are presented. The certification of quality systems is associated with Quality Assurance and compared with the broader scope of Total Quality Management, emphasising innovation and re-engineering. The normative environment regarding quality is explained. The historical path of the standards concerning quality is described, having in mind the near future. The three models for quality assurance prescribed in the ISO 9000 family of standards, used in certification, are analysed and their requirements compared. A possibility of a choice of models for the construction sector is presented. The particularities distinguishing construction from manufacturing industries are established, once that the standards are written in the language of the latter. A framework for the certification of construction companies is developed, adapting the requirements of the broader model (ISO 9001), for the application in these companies, bearing in mind the future standard for project management (ISO 10006). The reasons leading construction companies to certification are listed and assessed. The activities to undertake towards certification are described. The situation in Europe is studied. The evolution of quality in construction in Portugal is outlined, as well as the state of the art in the companies by means of a survey conducted among them. The results of this survey point to an emerging trend towards quality systems and certification. The possible advantages and disadvantages of certification are discussed. The conclusions point to the insufficiency of certification as a comprehensive answer for quality management in construction companies. The difficulty of its application to the sector and some drawbacks it may possess are recognised, without invalidating its significant value as a substantial step towards Total Quality Management and the benefits it may convey in the form of enhanced management practices. Directions for pursuing the present work are given, regarding Environmental Management, Safety and Total Quality Management for the construction sector; O presente escrito visa examinar a certificação de sistemas de qualidade de&#xD;
empresas de construção, diagnosticando a postura destas e proporcionando informação&#xD;
relativa à implementação e valor da certificação.&#xD;
Analisa-se a evolução da qualidade ao longo dos tempos. Apresentam-se os&#xD;
diversos tipos de certificação, associa-se a certificação à Garantia da Qualidade e&#xD;
compara-se esta com a abordagem mais alargada da Gestão da Qualidade Total,&#xD;
sublinhando-se a importância da inovação e da re-engenharia.&#xD;
Explica-se o contexto normativo da qualidade. Descreve-se o percurso histórico&#xD;
das normas desta área, tendo em conta o futuro próximo. Analisam-se os diversos&#xD;
modelos de garantia da qualidade das normas da família ISO 9000, utilizadas na&#xD;
certificação, comparando as respectivas exigências e apresentando uma hipótese de&#xD;
selecção para a indústria da construção.&#xD;
Estabelecem-se as particularidades que distinguem a construção das indústrias&#xD;
de manufactura, na linguagem das quais se encontram as normas. Elabora-se uma base&#xD;
para a certificação de empresas de construção, adaptando os requisitos do modelo&#xD;
mais alargado, o da ISO 9001, para aplicação em empresas de construção, tendo em&#xD;
conta a futura existência de uma norma de gestão de empreendimentos, a ISO 10006.&#xD;
Inventariam-se e avaliam-se as razões que conduzem as empresas a certificar-se.&#xD;
Apresentam-se as actividades a desenvolver com vista à certificação. Estuda-se a&#xD;
situação actual na Europa neste campo. Expõe-se o percurso da qualidade na&#xD;
construção em Portugal e o estado actual da qualidade nas empresas de construção,&#xD;
patenteando-se os resultados de um inquérito desenvolvido. Estes resultados revelam&#xD;
uma tendência emergente para a implantação de sistemas de qualidade e para a&#xD;
certificação desses sistemas. Dissecam-se as possíveis vantagens e desvantagens da&#xD;
certificação.&#xD;
Conclui-se, pela insuficiência da certificação como solução para a gestão da&#xD;
qualidade nas empresas de construção, reconhece-se a sua difícil aplicação ao sector e&#xD;
alguns inconvenientes que possa apresentar. No entanto, isto não constitui óbice quer&#xD;
à sua grande valia como um significativo passo no caminho de objectivos como a&#xD;
Gestão da Qualidade Total, quer às vantagens que pode trazer para a gestão das&#xD;
empresas. Apontam-se vias de continuação deste trabalho, abordando-se a Gestão&#xD;
Ambiental, a Gestão da Segurança, e a Gestão da Qualidade Total para as Empresas&#xD;
de Construção.</description>
    <dc:date>1995-12-31T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>The dividing line of privacy and the social project: the urban critique in Borneo-Sporenburg</title>
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    <description>Título próprio: The dividing line of privacy and the social project: the urban critique in Borneo-Sporenburg
Autoria: Pacheco, Mónica
Resumo: The relevance of an urban project, from a critical point of view, lies in its capacity to pose questions about the city and its future, as well as about current and past practices of the discipline. The strength of a critical argument might initiate productive discussions within and outside the circle of practioners, and therefore a pedagogical role can always be assigned to it.&#xD;
West8’s masterplan for the redevelopment of Borneo-Sporenbug islands in the old industrial district of Amsterdam prompted important questions about urbanism, the contemporary city and the city dweller. The project raises so many of the issues that have been frequently posed by architects, generation after generation: how can many individual worlds be tied together into one greater and inspiring whole? How are individuals expected to live within a collectivity of other subjects? How can that be translated into spatial terms? What are the potentials and constraints of these different discourses? If the “home is a prime unexcavated site for an archaeology of sociability” , can we find a direct relationship between idealised ways of socialising in the home and outside it? How does the idea of home relate directly to an idea of urban? &#xD;
Those questions, in turn, imply a rethinking of ongoing problems through drawing and the cross over between multiple scales. Housing can be understood to be a major element articulating the individual and society, the neighbourhood and the block. The spatial arrangement as a whole has a social content and therefore stands as an object of reflection.</description>
    <dc:date>2004-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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