Colombia. The Colombian Council for Sustainable Construction (CCCS) presents the industry with a standard methodology for documenting compliance with minimum air quality conditions in sustainable real estate projects in Latin America.
"This important technical advance, whose reference document is the "Verification Protocol for engineering designs of natural ventilation systems in equatorial climates", will promote the realization of more real estate projects with natural ventilation that seek to verify air quality and energy performance, both to comply with the Guide for saving water and energy in new buildings (Resolution 549 of 2015 of the Ministry of Housing, City and Territory) and for LEED projects," said Cristina Gamboa, Executive Director of the CCCS.
Brendan Owens, Chief of Engineering of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), will elaborate on the transcendence of this methodology, relevant to all countries in the region with equatorial climates, En Construverde Colombia 2016, International Forum & Expo Sustainable Design and Construction, at the Colsubsidio Cube in Bogotá on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19, 2016.
This achievement was led by the CCCS and its Technical Committee, with the valuable support of the Construction Engineering and Management Group of the Universidad de los Andes and a Committee of Experts. The authors of the resulting work "Verification protocol for engineering designs of natural ventilation systems in equatorial climates" are Andrés Alberto Rodríguez, Research Assistant Group of Engineering and Construction Management of the Universidad de los Andes; Angélica Ospina, Director of the Technical Committee of the CCCS, Group Professor of Engineering and Construction Management at the Universidad de los Andes, and Technical Manager, Setri Sustentabilidad SAS; and the CCCS, in charge of Carolina Camacho, Technical Coordinator.
LEED has experienced strong growth in Colombia, with more than 4.8 million square meters of projects using this certification tool in sustainable construction across 19 departments and 41 cities and municipalities in the country.
