Luciana Miron

Luciana Miron
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  • Professor (Associate) at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

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Introduction
Luciana Miron currently works at the Department of Architecture and Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning (PROPUR) at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Luciana does research in Social Housing, Urban Projects, Post Occupancy Evaluation, Value Generation applied to Built Environment and Epistemology. Their current project is 'JOGOS DIDÁTICOS UTILIZADOS COMO INSTRUMENTOS NO ENSINO DA GESTAO DE EMPREENDIMENTOS NO AMBIENTE CONSTRUIDO.'
Current institution
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Current position
  • Professor (Associate)
Additional affiliations
October 2014 - September 2015
University of Huddersfield
Position
  • Visiting Researcher
Description
  • Post-doctorate. Adviser Lauri Koskela.
March 2011 - present
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
Description
  • Teaches epistemological and methodological foundations of research, urban projects, generating value in the built environment
October 2008 - October 2013
Universidad de la República de Uruguay
Position
  • Professor
Description
  • Teaches Gestión de proyectos y Desarrollo de Productos
Education
May 2003 - May 2008
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Field of study
  • Management and Construction Economy
March 1999 - March 2002
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Field of study
  • Management and Construction Economy
July 1989 - July 1994
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Field of study
  • Architecture and Urbanism

Publications

Publications (68)
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The article aims to present an initial version of a methodology for assessing the sustainability of low-income neighbourhoods in Brazil, using an approach that integrates top-down and bottom-up participation perspectives in a balanced manner. The paper employs Design Science Research and outlines the stages of understanding, development, and evalua...
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The built environment has great influence over the sustainability of societies as well as over people’s quality of life. Quality of life (QoL) is a broad concept that has different definitions across diverse bodies of knowledge. The social–cultural environment and the characteristics of the built environment influence people’s perception of QoL. Th...
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Este trabalho tem como objetivo configurar uma matriz para determinar indicadores de sustentabilidade que possibilitem a análise de rios urbanos. De fato, os sistemas com indicadores de sustentabilidade desempenham um importante papel na gestão integrada da água, proporcionando benefícios para a paisagem urbana. Utilizou-se de revisão da literatura...
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Este artigo tem como objetivo propor uma discussão acerca do potencial e das delimitações de imagens fotográficas como fontes históricas para o registro de transformações na paisagem urbana, especificamente, do Bairro Farrapos, localizado na cidade de Porto Alegre/RS. O estudo empírico envolveu a coleta e a análise de registros fotográficos de dist...
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Este artigo tem como objetivo propor uma discussão acerca do potencial e das delimitações de imagens fotográficas como fontes históricas para o registro de transformações na paisagem urbana, especificamente, do Bairro Farrapos, localizado na cidade de Porto Alegre/RS. O estudo empírico envolveu a coleta e a análise de registros fotográficos de dist...
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Este trabalho compreende uma revisão sistematizada de literatura, que tem como objetivo geral verificar como o impacto da pandemia de Covid-19 na qualidade de vida urbana está sendo tratado na literatura científica presente. Os dados para a pesquisa foram coletados no Portal de Periódicos Capes, utilizando uma string de pesquisa que continha as pal...
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Este artigo tem como objetivo explorar o tema da cooperação intermunicipal, em relação às cidades pequenas e à qualidade de vida urbana, emprega como metodologia o estudo de caso da Associação dos Municípios do Oeste de Santa Catarina (AMOSC). Fundamentado nos conceitos de qualidade de vida urbana, cidade pequena e cooperação intermunicipal, aprese...
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Health is socially determined, that is, the conditions in which people are born, live, work, and age influence their susceptibility to Covid-19, both in terms of contamination, death, and access to vaccination. These conditions can be studied from the perspective of the urban quality of life, which has suffered changes with the advent of the Covid-...
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A precariedade das condições de moradia no Brasil tem sérias implicações sobre o habitat saudável. No ano de 2020, o advento da pandemia de Covid-19 acrescentou urgência às discussões acerca da habitação saudável, principalmente nas periferias das cidades; onde se encontram as maiores carências: de habitabilidade, de fornecimento de água, de infrae...
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A pesquisa que originou este artigo investigou a retórica verbal e visual como metodologia de análise de projetos urbanos em concursos a partir de uma amostra selecionada no Acervo de Arquitetura de Concursos da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Como metodologia de pesquisa, foram construídas ferramentas, a partir de softwares de análise v...
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A qualidade de vida é um conceito complexo com diversas interpretações, que pode ser medida tanto por indicadores objetivos quanto subjetivos. Ao abordar a qualidade de vida, no entanto, o conceito de qualidade ambiental emerge pela sua estreita interligação. A qualidade ambiental, por sua vez, é acompanhada pelo desafio da sua mensuração, a qual e...
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This paper proposes a set of guidelines for using Building Information Modelling (BIM) to manage client requirements in the context of social housing projects. A process model representing main activities involved in requirements management has been devised, as well as nine constructs that can be used for assessing the effectiveness of using BIM fo...
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Several housing programs have been conceived and implemented in the last few decades in Brazil, with the aim to reduce the housing shortage. Despite the efforts to develop social housing, a substantial share of projects has had quality failures in the use phase, which represent costs to society. Previous research has been limited to the evaluation...
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Na habitação de interesse social, a territorialidade pode ser manifestada por meio de modificações simbólicas e materiais realizadas pelos usuários nas suas unidades habitacionais. Tais modificações podem ocorrer com base nos valores culturais e subjetivos dos usuários. O objetivo principal deste artigo é avaliar as territorialidades expressadas po...
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RESUMO: Estudos indicam que uma parte considerável dos empreendimentos do Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV) foi implantada sobre as áreas verdes urbanas. Essas áreas, usualmente presentes na periferia das cidades, exercem um papel fundamental na preservação e no bem-estar urbano. Este artigo relata parte de uma pesquisa de mestrado, cujo objet...
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Understanding the needs and expectations of different groups of users in the urban space in a neighborhood scale represents an opportunity to promote more quality in the built environment. Thus, the objective of this article is to evaluate the quality of the Cidade Baixa neighborhood in Porto Alegre / RS, through the perception of its users. The me...
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In line with its performance improvement and Lean Construction agenda, the highways supply chain in the UK has commenced many Continuous Improvement (CI) cells in recent years. The CI cell is a small-group work coordination and improvement technique that is frequently used in many industries as part of their lean transformations. The technique has...
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This paper presents a method to evaluate the perceived value expected by technicians from public institutions and received by users of Brazilian social housing. The development of the method involved the structuring of a questionnaire, a sample design, data collection and analysis. The method was implemented and enhanced during three studies that e...
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Mass customization (MC) aims to provide customized products to fulfill clients' requirements while maintaining efficiencies similar to mass production. Although the goals of mass customization, high product variety and production efficiency, are clear, its implementation might not be obvious. Indeed, a number of enablers (solution space, modular ar...
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Ao investigar a cidade como lugar de experiências, requer-se a sua apreciação tanto sob a ótica das características do espaço urbano, quanto das condições sociais e culturais da população que o habita. A cidade pode ser estudada em sua diversidade de usos e usuários, bem como dos conflitos e negociações de convivência decorrentes dessa pluralidade....
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Avaliações Pós-Ocupação têm sido desenvolvidas buscando investigar a qualidade do produto habitação de interesse social que está sendo entregue aos usuários. A análise do número de avaliações desenvolvidas no meio acadêmico e a verificação dos problemas identificados ao longo dos anos têm evidenciado que as informações obtidas por meio dessas avali...
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Os parques urbanos têm um importante papel na saúde física e mental dos cidadãos e na dinâmica bioclimática da cidade. Entretanto, têm-se enfrentado dificuldades na implantação de novos parques, devido à escassez de orçamento e à ausência de áreas disponíveis na zona urbana consolidada, aumentando, assim, a importância da manutenção dos parques exi...
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Since 1989 Porto Alegre has become an international reference for planning (UN Habitat, 1996) and regeneration practices associated also with the Participatory Budget process (Pacheco, 2001; Fedozzi, 1998), aiming at poverty reduction and social inclusiveness (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, 2004; UNDP, 2003; UN/UMP, 2003). Within the new city masterpla...
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Complex urban regeneration projects are usually large-scale, long projects, which often involve a combination of products and services. In general, there are conflicting objectives due to the diversity of stakeholders involved, and a strong participation of the community is often required. The aim of this chapter is to understand the challenges of...
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Avaliações pós-ocupação (APO) têm sido desenvolvidas buscando investigar a qualidade do produto “habitação de interesse social” que está sendo entregue aos usuários. No entanto, a reincidência dos problemas identificados tem evidenciado que as informações obtidas por meio dessas avaliações não têm sido consideradas para a melhoria de futuros empree...
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A qualidade do projeto arquitetônico e dos serviços entregues aos usuários de empreendimentos habitacionais de interesse social (EHIS) tem sido objeto de diversas pesquisas de Avaliação Pós-Ocupação (APO). O objetivo desta pesquisa é propor contribuições para avaliação do projeto arquitetônico e dos serviços que compõem o produto habitação de inter...
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O interesse pela geração de valor no processo de desenvolvimento do ambiente construído, por pesquisadores da Lean Construction, tem sido crescente. Contudo, a compreensão do conceito de valor, a forma como o valor é percebido e, consequentemente, a geração de valor, ainda representam um desafio para os pesquisadores. O objetivo deste artigo é rela...
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RESUMO O Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV) representa um marco na trajetória dos programas nacionais de habitação, dado o volume de investimentos e a quantidade de unidades habitacionais construídas. Em contraponto, pesquisas têm apontado problemas em relação ao que se tem produzido através do programa, incluindo o não atendimento das necessid...
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The study began with the problem posed by an organisation for a group of researchers in the UK. There was a need to carry out an in-depth study to evaluate the continuous improvement programmes in the context of Lean Construction, and the following question emerged: How to evaluate the continuous improvement programme? This paper aims to understand...
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Within the context of social housing (EHIS), users may express territorialization through appropriations in the built environment. This process of appropriation of space by the user indicates the construction of a sense of belonging, which can be concretely expressed through physical changes. These appropriations may also indicate risks to achievin...
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In Brazil, the trajectory of housing provision has been fragmented, marked by a diversity of housing programmes that has prompted a scattering of resources and frequent discontinuity in such programmes. Since 2002 Porto Alegre has been developing the City Entrance Integrated Programme (PIEC in Portuguese), a large housing provision and urban regene...
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Este artigo propõe-se uma análise que combina as percepções de valor das esferas de desenvolvimento (técnicos da Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre) e ocupação (usuários) de empreendimentos habitacionais utilizando o mapeamento hierárquico de valor. A estratégia de pesquisa adotada é a Constructive Research. A população-alvo "usuários" faz parte...
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Target Value Design (TVD) is a management approach that aims to maximize value in the framework of a pre-established cost target. TVD views AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) as a complex system and transforms the current design practice upside down. In spite of the existing studies, applying TVD in the context of AEC still represents...
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Client requirements management aims to improve value generation in construction projects through a systematic process of capturing requirements, processing this information, and making them explicit to the product development team, as well as controlling whether the requirements from different clients are properly balanced. This is particular impor...
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A Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), através do Núcleo Orientado para a Inovação da Edificação (NORIE), tem desenvolvido vários estudos focados na geração de valor em empreendimentos habitacionais de interesse social (EHIS). Um desses estudos, iniciado em 2004, resultou em uma tese (MIRON, 2008) que analisou o processo de desenvolvi...
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Client requirements management aims to improve value generation of construction projects through a systematic process of capturing requirements, processing this information, and making them explicit to the product development team, as well as controlling whether these are properly balanced. This is particular important when resources are limited, s...
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RESUMO: Este trabalho tem como objetivo identificar as oportunidades de geração de valor no processo de desenvolvimento de empreendimentos habitacionais de interesse social, tendo como fundamentação abordagens de gerenciamento dos requisitos dos clientes. Para tanto foram analisados os processos de desenvolvimento de dois empreendimentos habitacion...
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The concept of value has been widely cited within Lean Construction (LC), and important discussions have been taking place during the conferences of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC). This paper aims at exploring the concept through the nineteen years of proceedings of the IGLC community (1993 to 2011). In order to select the sam...
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The traditional managerial approaches used in complex projects have been widely criticized for not offering support to deal with the characteristics of highly complex projects. The aim of this article is to point out the difficulties of managing a highly complex urban project, as well as to identify the barriers for introducing suitable practices f...
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The evaluation of projects plays an important role in the effort to improve value generation in social housing. However, the diversity and dynamics of housing programs and the lack of clarity in project objectives may hinder the evaluation process of this type of product. The evaluation of social housing projects is often focused on product attribu...
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Traditional project management approaches have been criticised in recent years for being inadequate for the growing complexity of construction projects. Among the main criticisms are the inadequacy to deal with a social and political context, the dynamics of the environment and the need for further judgment during project implementation. Within thi...
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A avaliação de empreendimentos tem grande importância no esforço de melhoria da habitação de interesse social, podendo auxiliar na avaliação de resultados e na identificação de erros e acertos ante os objetivos e ações do projeto. No entanto, a diversidade e dinâmica de programas habitacionais e a falta de clareza nos objetivos dos empreendimentos...
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As in other developing countries, social housing programs in Brazil have endured major changes in the last two decades, such as decentralisation in decision making, growing participation by private developers, and decreasing participation by the government, which has traditionally been responsible for social housing product development in Brazil. T...
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The City Entrance Integrated Program (PIEC) is a very large urban project that proposes the urban restructuring of an important area of Porto Alegre City, South of Brazil. This type of project is characterized by heavy investments and very high complexity, since it involves a large number of stakeholders and much uncertainty. They are often designa...
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This paper proposes a conceptual framework for assessing integrated low-income housing projects. Integrated projects have a broader scope then traditional house building projects, providing not only housing units buts also other goods and services such as urban infrastructure, social services, and environmental recovery, usually involving also part...
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In recent years, concerns with value generation in construction have increased, as a result of the introduction of novel marketing and operations management ideas, strongly related to the Lean Production paradigm. Among other improvements, several organizations have developed strategies targeting client attraction and retention. In the Brazilian co...
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Recently several social interest housing projects (SIHP) have been carried out in Brazil throughout integrated programs that involve the joint development of housing projects, social service and infrastructure for a specific urban area to be recovered. Another important tendency of these programs is that they result from a joint planning carried ou...
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This paper describes the main results of multiple-case studies concerned with client requirements management in the product development process (PDP) of eight low-income house-building projects, carried out in the South of Brazil. These projects were developed in two different existing forms of housing provision in Brazil: the Residential Leasing P...
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This paper describes the main results of a multiple case study concerned with client requirements management in the product development process (PDP) of seven low-income house-building projects, carried out in the South of Brazil. These projects were developed in two different forms of Brazilian housing provision: four in the Residential Leasing Pr...
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In recent years, concern with value management has increased in construction, mainly due to the increasing demand for quality from clients and to the increasing complexity of construction projects. This has resulted in changes on the roles of construction organizations and professionals. In this context, the success of a project depends strongly on...
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This paper describes an empirical study carried out in a construction company aiming to investigate the connections between building design process and production as part of the Product Development Process (PDP). The objective in this study is the investigation and implementation of tools that can support the management of PDP in a construction pro...
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In recent years, concern with value management has increased in construction. In this context, value generation can be understood as fulfilling the final client requirements. It depends on how the requirements are prioritised and communicated to the design team throughout the product development process. The objective of this dissertation is to pro...
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RESUMO Nas últimas décadas, o interess e pelo gerenciamento do valor tem aumentado no setor da construção. Neste contexto, a geração de valor pode ser compreendida como o atendimento dos requisitos do cliente final. Tal atendimento, por sua vez, depende de como os requisitos são priorizados e comunicados para a equipe de projeto ao longo do process...
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In recent years, concern with value management has increased in construction. In this context, value generation can be understood as fulfilling the final client requirements. It depends on how the requirements are prioritized and communicated to the design team throughout the product development process. The objective of this text is to present a m...

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