Analysis of a structural masonry building system in low-income housing

Abstract

Engineering, as well as society, has evolved side by side over the years, but the economy in our country has not entered the same axis, leaving millions of unemployed people, and with low income. Soon with high rent values, many of these people end up being evicted, or just surviving, and not living. It was there that Engineering, together with the State, aligned ideas that would bring housing accessibility to low-income people, on the one hand, Engineering creating a constructive system with very low operating costs, bringing convenience and security to future residents, and the other the State financing part of this operation. In this present work, we will analyze how this structural masonry construction system works in a popular housing in My House My Life, in our city, Manaus, showing how it positively impacted society to have a place that it can call home.