Author(s)

Alberto Casado Lordsleem Júnior, Bárbara Eloá Gonçalves de Lima

Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic School of Pernambuco University, Recife, Brazil.

The adoption of performance indicators promotes knowledge of quantitative and qualitative material wastes in businesses and, when inserted in a collaborative process, provides a comparative evaluation of results between companies and, thereafter, an identification of best practices (bench-marking). The purpose of this paper is to present the best practices identified by performance indicators, related to the measurement of wastes and associated to construction companies participation in the benchmarking research process “Implementation of a system of performance indicators of cement-based construction technologies of the Community of Construction of Recife city in Brazil-PROGRIDE”, coordinated by the Brazilian Association of Portland Cement-ABCP. Therefore, it was sought to characterize best practices that led to the benchmarking of performance indicators related to the wastes of concrete, industrialized mortar for masonry settling and blocks/ bricks. As a contribution, a set of factors that characterize the best practices for each technology and conducted to benchmarking were identified.

Indicators, Concrete, Masonry, Construction, Technologies

Lordsleem Júnior, A. and de Lima, B. (2014) Indicators Benchmarking of Cement-Based Construction Technologies: Brazilian Case Study. Open Journal of Civil Engineering, 4, 301-310. doi: 10.4236/ojce.2014.44025.