Revista de Ingeniería

revinge | eISSN 2011-0049 | ISSN 0121-4993

The Need for a Sustainable Building Code for Bogotá: Creating a Proposal

No. 41 (2014-07-01)
  • Clemencia Escallón
    (1) Magister en Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre Desarrollo. Profesora de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. cescallo@uniandes.edu.co
  • Camilo Villate
    (2) Magister en Tecnologías de la Construcción de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Profesor de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. cvillate@uniandes.edu.co
https://doi.org/10.16924/riua.v0i41.775

Abstract

In 2010, the Planning and Environment Secretaries of the Capital District asked Universidad de los Andes to review, evaluate and assess the current building code in Bogota, and put forward a conceptual framework that would allow the code to be updated with respect to sustainability. This article describes the differences between the code and the standard, the approach used for the review, and the strategies proposed by the team from Universidad de los Andes.

Keywords: Bogota, code, conceptual framework, standard, sustainability, Universidad de los Andes