Promoting Sustainable and Resilient Constructive Patterns in Vulnerable Communities: Habitat for Humanity’s Sustainable Housing Prototypes in El Salvador

Rosa Ana Jiménez-Expósito (), Antonio Serrano-Jiménez, Pablo Fernández-Ans, Gianluca Stasi, Carmen Díaz-López and Ángela Barrios-Padura
Additional contact information
Rosa Ana Jiménez-Expósito: Department of Building Construction I, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain
Antonio Serrano-Jiménez: Department of Building Construction, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Pablo Fernández-Ans: Research Department, Rehabilita-Energía, 41011 Seville, Spain
Gianluca Stasi: Research Department, CTRL+Z Arquitectura, 41003 Seville, Spain
Carmen Díaz-López: Department of Building Construction I, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain
Ángela Barrios-Padura: Department of Building Construction I, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: The global challenges regarding sustainability and the guarantee of minimum habitability requirements have led to the transformation of construction practices, where research has failed to achieve sufficient dissemination and findings. The purpose of this research is to promote sustainable and resilient patterns in construction in vulnerable neighbourhoods in emerging countries by disseminating techniques and mechanisms through in situ transfer workshops and by raising awareness of the environmental importance of construction. Regarding materials and methods, this paper contributes innovative insights by combining training workshops and awareness-raising sessions to promote both environmental education and sustainable and optimised habits in construction. These methods are applied and tested in a real case study in El Salvador. Subsequent to carrying out a multi-disciplinary assessment analysis, the outcomes and results have led to the design of prototypes that have obtained a global EDGE certificate on sustainable construction and efficient use of resources once the users’ testimonies, weaknesses, and strengths have been addressed. The conclusions indicate that families, volunteers, and technical workers need to be trained by promoting environmental awareness in social housing and establishing a plan for dissemination to communicate across universities and public and private institutions in order to replicate guidelines across American dry-corridor countries.

Keywords: sustainable architecture; development cooperation; social housing; vulnerable communities; housing renovation; low-cost construction; decision-making; collaborative learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/1/352/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/1/352/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2022:i:1:p:352-:d:1015110

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().