Inspeção Predial: Estudo de Caso do Departamento de Letras da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

The Building Inspection aims to evaluate the conditions of a building through aspects such as performance, life cycle, safety, state of conservation, taking into account the experience of the people who use the place. When there is neglect to maintain the condition of buildings, users of that location may be at high risk. For this reason, the inspection aims to ensure that a given building is in safe and comfortable conditions for users, identifying pathologies that may impair these criteria, so that solutions can be proposed in order to mitigate the existing problems. In this context, building inspection in Brazil is guided by rules and manuals that detail the procedures to be performed for an efficient and detailed execution of the inspection. Thus, this work aims to present a case study of a building inspection carried out in the academic building of the Department of Letters of the Federal University of Ceará, following the current norms. The property has great academic and cultural relevance for the community; however, it has some anomalies that hinder its good performance and may affect the safety of students and teachers who attend the place. Thus, to ensure the objectivity of the analysis, the problems visibly found during the inspection were ranked using the GUT Method and, thus, improvements were proposed for the location under analysis.