Determinación de indicadores de sostenibilidad en edificios de consumo energético casi nulo en Quito.

Abstract

An important concept in the construction sector that has been gaining popularity is nZEB (nearly zero energy building); low energy buildings have been defined by different regions. Analyzing these definitions, it was observed that they do not satisfy the needs for an Andean weather, like Quito’s weather, sustainable buildings present different indicators which help to evaluate their sustainability, diverse entities have developed methodologies that help to carry out this evaluation. In this work, the indicators of different entities were analyzed in order to select the indicators that allow obtaining a definition of a building with low energy consumption. Each of the sustainability indicators was analyzed individually; they were compared with different municipal ordinances of Quito’s Metropolitan District, as well as the Ecuadorian Construction Regulations, which allowed us to have a broad vision of the sustainability in Quito. It should be mentioned that only the energy indicators were analyzed due to the scope of this work.