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Resultados de pesquisas científicas e discussões sobre conforto ambiental urbano em Salvador/BA

2014; Volume: 1; Linguagem: Inglês

10.17012/entac2014.578

2178-8960

Sandra M. R. De Souza, Carolina Santiago Vieira, Rosevânia Paixão, Juan Delgado, Danilo Souza, Sílvia Miranda,

Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies

This study has aimed to record the contributions resulting from the "Cycle of Conferences on Urban Environmental Comfort", promoted by the Laboratory of Environmental Comfort, Faculty of Architecture UFBA, on January 08 th , 09 th , 15 th and 16 th , 2014.It was presented at this event researches that addressed environmental comfort: thermal, acoustic and ergonomic in the city of Salvador/BA; and fostering discussion between the presence of professionals, government representatives and students in these fields on the results presented and issues related to the urban environment.The methodology used to prepare this article consisted of recording and transcribing the results presented and discussions conducted by debaters.The study on thermal comfort consisted of exploratory research concerning the thermal perception in two urban open spaces, for a given age of the population; the acoustical study consisted of the mapping of road traffic noise at the Imbuí district; the study of ergonomic comfort consisted of the identification and evaluation of associated micro accessibility that interfere with the movement of pedestrians, cyclists and people with disabilities, in a public transport station and its surroundings.907 http://doi.org/10.17012/entac2014.578Overall, it was realized that the results of the research reveal noncompliance with satisfactory limits for human comfort of individuals who use the studied areas in the city, and the consecutive regulatory and legislative parameters for such comforts studied.The main contributions of such events, and also the said event in Salvador, were: the importance of fostering scientific research of these natures, as well as, promoting the dissemination of knowledge to the participating public on matters related to the quality of urban environmental comfort, to which all are subjected.