Over recent years in Brazil and Colombia, the social housing programs of these two countries have increasingly become directly related to the concept of green construction and seek to integrate with their respective laws. For example, a series of technological strategies allows bought countries to guarantee a reduction of the environmental impact of traditional construction technologies. Therefore, these actions try to answer the problems in the design of dwellings in Latin America. However, the construction sector reduced productivity and limited innovation in business. Some of the technological management processes in the social housing construction sector only consider the implementation of clean technologies tangentially. This situation is mainly because of general policies since they do not consider different local contexts. It is then worth asking: What impact do the processes of transfer of clean technologies have on social housing in Brazil and Colombia? This systematic review was carried out on scientific papers indexed by the science database from 2013 to 2019. The PRISMA method was applied to this review with an aim to propose a conceptual model for the transfer of clean technology in the production of social housing in Brazil and Colombia. Finally, we identify that the impact of clean technologies transfer on social housing is very low in these two countries.

Según el Manual de Oslo, las capacidades de innovación se relacionan con las capacidades generales de la empresa y se consideran un conjunto de activos valiosos que la empresa utiliza para establecer estrategias de innovación. Tienen relación directa con la ventaja competitiva y el crecimiento de las ventas.

Hoy, el crecimiento poblacional y el cambio climático afectan la óptima habitabilidad de las edificaciones. Por tanto, un mal diseño ocasiona que la habitabilidad no responda a los requerimientos de los usuarios y a las condiciones climáticas actuales. A partir del análisis del crecimiento poblacional y de los cambios climáticos que se están presentando en Bogotá, ¿es posible evaluar la calidad de la habitabilidad de las edificaciones y, por consiguiente, generar diseños óptimos que permitan que su uso sea sostenible en el tiempo y se adapten de manera adecuada a los cambios climáticos actuales? A fin de lograr esto, el análisis de la habitabilidad debe estar dirigido a diseñar edificaciones resilientes. Para ello, se propuso un Sistema de Gestión de la Información, que pretende generar modelos que estimen en el tiempo la adaptabilidad y la sostenibilidad de una edificación. La aproximación al concepto de habitabilidad plantea la interrelación de variables desde las visiones sociocultural y ambiental, entendida esta última como un sistema. Finalmente, se concluye que el prototipo de software en este momento se convierte en un laboratorio de exploración para la generación de otro software que pueda conducir a una patente de utilidad y aplicarlo en el ejercicio profesional.

City dwellers in South America suffer thermal discomfort inside the buildings because of climate change, a situation that directly affects their health. Resilient design addresses this issue as a response thereto. The objective of the article is to evaluate resilient design characteristics responding to the need for thermal comfort in social housing with regard to the effect of climate change. This was carried out through a theoretical and an empirical stage in two South American cities with opposite characteristics: Passo Fundo in Brazil and Tunja in Colombia. As a result, it was found that CEB is a viable option only in climates with specific conditions given its thermal and environmental properties, according to direct heat gain strategies that tend to be resilient and fit a bioclimatic urban design better. Considering the above, it was concluded that the envelope plays a key role in resilient design in terms of thermal comfort.

This paper studied the concept of the habitability of buildings as a sustainability factor in the living envi­ronment, particularly in the city of Bogotá. The habitability factor stems from the relationship between human beings, the cultural dimension and the environment. Thus, we can say that the habitability factor is an important element in the building design process. Currently in Bogotá there are buildings that do not meet the requirements of the population. In Bogotá only 40% of buildings are of a good quality and a great number of newly produced buildings have made for lower quality living spaces. Consequently, it is important to give an adequate response to these kinds of demands. For thase reasons, this study created a model to evaluate the habitability factor of buildings. This model gives some guidelines for designing sustainable buildings and implementing stategies to design a better urban habitat. Finally, the Habitability model was tested as a pilot in the Primero de Mayo neighbourhood, which is located in the fourth district of Bogotá. The neighbourhood was classified as a cultural heritage site by city hall.