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About the journal

 

Basic Information

 

Ambiente Construído is a scientific journalof continuous publication of the National Association of the Built Environment Technology (Associação Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído - ANTAC), which is a nonprofit and the main Brazilian scientific association on this topic. The central aim is to help develop and disseminate scientific knowledge.

Initially edited as a printed journal, Ambiente Construído is currently available only in electronic form, with free access in the internet.

Original and unpublished scientific articles are accepted for publication. Articles must be based on research, related to the area of knowledge called Technology for the Built Environment, which covers conceptual design, design, production, operation, maintenance, demolition and recycling or reuse of buildings and their immediate surroundings.

Publication frequency

Continuous publishing.

 

 

Indexed in

 
  • Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ
  • Portal de Periódicos da CAPES
  • Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear - CNEN
  • Centro de Referência e Informação em Habitação - InfoHab
  • Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal - Latindex
  • Latin Americanist Research Resources Project - LAARP
  • Sumários de Revistas Brasileiras - Sumários.org
  • Portal de Periódicos Científicos UFRGS
  • Arsociación de Revistas Latinoamericas de Arquitectura - ARLA
  • Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal – RCAAP
  • União Latino-Americana de Tecnologia - UTL
 

 

Publication Ethics (COPE)

 

Ambiente Construído is committed to following ethical behaviour at all stages of the publication process. Thus, the author, editor, editorial committee and reviewers must maintain good ethical practices.

We always advocate good practices recommended by DORA (San Francisco Declaration on research evaluation).

The journal considers it an unethical practice to submit the article in more than one journal, as well as to publish it in more than one journal. Thus, the author must comply with the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Any questions should be sent to the email ambienteconstruido@ufrgs.br.

Cases of suspected ethical violation:

Publication in another journal, non-existent data, authorship without effective participation, plagiarism or self-plagiarism, ethical issues related to the research, appropriation of ideas or data by the reviewers, among others, are considered cases of suspected ethical violation.

So, Ambiente Construído guidelines for dealing with these issues include:

  • Cases of suspicion will be treated in accordance with COPE guidelines;
  • Any person can inform the Editorial Commission about suspected ethical infraction;
  • Any denouncement will be reported to the Editorial Committee and the complainant will be answered.

Authors are responsible for:

  • Not having submitted the article to another journal;
  • The article is not published in another journal;
  • Inform, when submitting the article, the number of the CAAE referring to the approval of the research in the Research Ethics Council or the registration in Plataforma Brasil, in the case of articles derived from research whose data collection is regulated by Resolution 510 of 07 /04/2016, from the National Health Council;
  • All authors of the article must have effectively collaborated with the development of the work, for the conception, execution or interpretation of the article. Any other contributions can be acknowledged at the end of the article;
  • Omit, at the time of submission, any data that identify authorship, origin, acknowledgements, information on funding, or any other reference that may identify authorship of the work;
  • Notify the editorial team of any error or misunderstanding in your article so that an errata or retraction can be provided;
  • Ensure that all sources used to produce the article were properly cited, guaranteeing the originality of the text and the absence of plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

The editorial committee is responsible for:

  • The editor is responsible for the initial evaluation, indicating whether the article goes to peer review, verifying the pertinence of the subject and compliance with the journal's editorial guidelines. If accepted at this stage, verification is carried out regarding the existence of information on the authorship of the article in the text and the file to guarantee the double blind assessment, and regarding the originality of the text, to avoid publication of articles that violate ethics in academic production;
  • Exclude articles that contain plagiarism, offend political or ideological positions, religious beliefs, gender or ethnic origin;
  • Maintain the ethical aspects of the submission process for publication of the article.

Responsibilities of reviewers

The reviewers are responsible for:

  • Do not copy or use the article, even in parts;
  • Communicate the risk of plagiarism or similarity of the article with works already published without a proper reference;
  • Communicate possible conflicts of interest in the assigned evaluation;
  • Not to divulge information provided by the editor or author;
  • Provide an opinion that does not offend and that help to the improvement of the paper.

Conflict of interests

The editorial board is responsible for investigating cases of negligence and misconduct. In case of conflict of interest, the editorial board will strictly monitor the submission. Therefore, any observation about conflict must be communicated to the Journal to resolve them quickly and transparently.

Editors, evaluators, reviewers and anyone involved in the editorial process must report cases of conflict of interest, even if not confirmed.

Plagiarism and editorial misconduct

Plagiarism is forbidden in Ambiente Construído.

All articles submitted to the Built Environment are checked for plagiarism on the Plagium and CopySpider platforms before starting peer review operation.

When a plagiarism is detected, even if it is an excerpt from the author without proper reference, the editor notifies the author to make the necessary corrections and thus enable a new submission.

If any member of the editorial team becomes aware of possible misconduct related to an Ambiente Construído article, the responsible editor will follow COPE's guidelines for handling the allegations.

Sex and gender issues

Guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research must be observed at all stages of the editorial process, from authors to publication. These guidelines (SAGER) instruct reporting information about sex and gender, both in the study and in the analysis of data and results, as well as in the interpretation of considerations.

Ambiente Construído takes gender equity into account in its editorial board.

 

 

Copyright Statement (Copyright)

 

Authors who publish in Ambiente Construído agree to the terms:

  • The authors grant the Journal the right to publish under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), allowing access, printing, reading, distribution, adaptation, and development of other research, if the authorship is recognized.
  • Authors are authorized to distribute the work published in the Journal, such as institutional repositories, or to include their article as part of the thesis and/or dissertation, as long as they mention the publication reference in Ambiente Construído.
  • Authors are responsible for the content of their articles.
  • Anyone can read, distribute, print, download, and indicate the address of the complete article without prior authorization from the Journal respecting the CC BY 4.0 license.
 

 

Digital preservation

 

Ambiente Construído uses the LOCKSS digital preservation system to guarantee the distribution and preservation of its content. And it is also preserved in the Cariniana Network, in order to preserve its content in the long term.

 

Sponsors

 
  • ANTAC- Associação Nacional De Tecnologia Do Ambiente Construído
  • UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
 

 


 

Editorial board

Managing editor

 
  • Ercília Hitomi Hirota – Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Londrina – PR – Brasil, ercilia@uel.br, ORCID 000-0002-1373-2329
 

 

Editors

 
  • Ariovaldo Denis Granja – Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas – SP – Brasil, adgranja@fec.unicamp.br, ORCID 0000-0002-2964-5609
  • Enedir Ghisi – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis – SC – Brasil, enedir.ghisi@ufsc.br, ORCID 0000-0001-5918-6397
  • Karin Regina de Castro Marins – Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo - SP - Brasil, karin.marins@usp.br, ORCID 0000-0003-0061-1322
  • Luciana Inês Gomes Miron – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil, luciana.miron@ufrgs.br, ORCID 0000-0003-2877-0122
  • Marcelo Henrique Farias de Medeiros – Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFRPR), Curitiba - PR - Brasil, medeiros.ufpr@gmail.com, ORCID 0000-0003-3112-9715

Associate editor

  • Eduardo Pereira – Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa (UEPG), Ponta Grossa – PR – Brazil, eduardopereira@uepg.br, ORCID 0000-0001-6944-795X
  • Julio Cesar Molina – Universidade de São Paulo (EESC-USP), São Carlos – SP – Brazil, julio.molina@usp.br, ORCID 000-0002-6204-0206
 

 

Editorial board

 
  • Alex Kenya Abiko, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo - Brasil, abiko@usp.br, ORCID 0000-0001-6599-872X
  • Clarice Bleil de Souza, Cardif University, Cardif - Grã-Bretanha, UK, bleildesouzac@cardiff.ac.uk, ORCID 0000-0001-7823-1202
  • Daniel Castro-Lacouture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta – EUA, dcastro@gatech.edu, ORCID 0000-0003-1549-9097
  • Eugenio Pellicer, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia - Spain, pellicer@upv.es, ORCID 000-0001-9100-0644
  • Paulo Lourenço, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães - Portugal, pbl@civil.uminho.pt, ORCID 0000-0001-8459-0199
  • Pete Walker, University of Bath, Bath - Grã-Bretanha, UK, walker@bath.ac.uk, ORCID  0000-0001-9648-3999
  • Rômulo Dante Orrico Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro – Brasil, romulo@pet.coppe.ufrj.br, ORCID 0000-0003-4789-6708
  • Sérgio Henrique Pialarissi Cavalaro, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, Grã-Bretanha, UK, cavalaro@lboro.ac.uk, ORCID 0000-0002-9368-0898
  • Sheila Walbe Ornstein, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo – Brasil, sheilawo@usp.br, ORCID 0000-0002-5684-921X
  • Sofiane Amziane, Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand - France, sofiane.amziane@uca.fr, ORCID 0000-0003-2339-3962
 

 

Advisory board

 
  • Carlos Torres Formoso, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre - Brasil, formoso@ufrgs.br, ORCID 0000-0002-4772-3746
  • Doris Catherine Cornelie Knatz Kowaltowski, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas – Brasil, dkowaltowski@gmail.com, ORCID 0000-0003-3088-6124
  • Roberto Lamberts, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis – Brasil, lamberts@ufsc.br, ORCID 0000-0001-6801-671X
  • Vahan Agopyan, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo – Brasil, vahan.agopyan@usp.br, ORCID 0000-0001-5018-4678
 

 

Editorial production

 

Editorial assistant

 

 


 

Instructions to authors

 

Scope and policy

 

Original and unpublished scientific articles are accepted for publication.  Articles must be based on research, related to the area of knowledge called Technology for the Built Environment, which covers conceptual design, design, production, operation, maintenance, demolition and recycling or reuse of buildings and their immediate surroundings.

We do not accept texts that contain a simple bibliographic review, without the research method or approach being original. If part of the results presented have already been disclosed, the design of the text and its main conclusions must be original and unpublished.

Ambiente Construído encourages and allows the submission of articles deposited on a recognized preprint server.

Conditions for submission

When submitting an article to the journal Ambiente Construído, authors must agree and accept the following conditions:

  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal; otherwise, justify in "Comments to the Editor".
  • Files for submission are in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format and do not exceed 5MB.
  • At the time of submission, the full names of all authors must be informed, accompanied by the institution to which they are linked, e-mail and ORCID. In exceptional cases, which justify the inclusion of a new author, and in order to comply with COPE guidelines, a formal request will be required, with the consent of ALL original authors, forwarded to the responsible editor-in-chief.
  • The authorship identification of this work was removed from the file and the Properties option in Word, thus guaranteeing the Journal's secrecy criteria, according to the instructions available in Ensuring the Double-Blind Peer Review.
  • All listed authors contributed to the work and are following the Journal's rules, taking responsibility for the content.
  • The text is formatted according to the template and with figures and tables inserted in the text, not at the end, with the lines numbered continuously (click on "layout", "line numbers" and then "continuous").
  • The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in Information for Authors.
  • The authors affirm the alignment of the research according to Open Science practices.
  • At the time of article submission, the authors authorize the article publication if accepted by editors.
  • For resubmission of articles that are not accepted, the authors must include a Letter to the Editor describing the changes made, without authorship identification and user information in the file properties.

Search data

Ambiente Construído encourages the sharing of research data. Thus, it suggests the deposit by the authors of the research data in institutional or even thematic repositories. We request the citation, referencing and declaration of research data in case there is reuse of data.

Collection of fees

The Ambiente Construído journal does not charge a fee (APC) for publishing an article, at any stage of the process. There is also no charge for distributing or downloading articles, being completely free and open access.

Peer review 

Articles submitted to the Ambiente Construído journal are evaluated using a double blind peer review system. It is the editor´s responsibility to check the relevance of the subject and if the author has followed the editorial guidelines of the journal. If your article  is accepted at this stage, your article is sent to at least three reviewers bearing no indication of the authorship. In order to ensure a standard in this evaluation process, the editorial staff has prepared a form including recommendations that guide the reviewers to prepare their report on your article. After the reviewers have done this, the editor sends you your article, according to the recommendations given by the peers without identifying them.

The editorial board of the journal Ambiente Construído recommends that the peer reviewers’ assessments take the following items into consideration: organization and structure of the paper, text quality, technical and scientific quality of the study, relevance of the theme and originality of the subject and consistency of the results presented.  With regards to the structure, reviewers are asked to consider the logical structure of the paper, which must include a theoretical background, a description of the research methods and presentation and discussion of the results. As to the text, reviewers will check for clarity and also spelling and grammatical quality. Assessment of the technical and scientific quality involves an analysis of the correct employment of concepts, depth of the content, scientific rigour of the investigation and citations of fundamental, internationally acknowledged references as well as clear contributions to scientific knowledge. As to the relevance, the work must be connected with significant issues related to the built environment technology. With respect to originality, reviewers must evaluate the uniqueness of the contribution, in addition to the innovation potential of the work. The journal also allows reviewers to add criteria that may contribute to improve the quality of the publication.

The average time for the first return is 60 days.

 

 

Form and preparation of manuscripts

 

Articles can be presented in Portuguese, Spanish or English.

The draft of the article should have a maximum of 7,000 words and 5MB, counting from the introduction of the article to the conclusion. The original should be formatted in A4 with single line spacing, Times New Roman font, size 12. The top and left margins should be 3 cm and the bottom and right margins 2 cm.

On the first page, there should be the title in Portuguese and English, abstract and 3 to 6 keywords in each of the languages.

Title 1: Times New Roman, size 14, in bold and capital letters.

E.g.: RESULTS

Title 2: Times New Roman, size 12, bold.

Ex.: Characteristics and appropriation of open spaces

Title 3: Times New Roman, size 12, not bold.

Example: Townhouses

After peer review and acceptance of the article, the text editing begins:

  • formatting and standardization (performed by a librarian);
  • review by the editor(s)-in-chief;
  • review by the authors.
  • Final composition in PDF and XML for availability in the system with assignment of DOI.

 

The article should contain:

Title: the title of the article should be brief (maximum 15 words) and sufficiently specific and descriptive, containing the keywords that reflect and should include some key-words that are representative of the content of the text. (maximum 15 words)

Indication of authorship: no information identifying the authors should be included in the paper. The identification of the authors should be made in the appropriate fields available at SEER. The name of each author should be included in full in that system, without abbreviation. The name of each author must be entered completely and without abbreviations, with indication of affiliation and ORCID

Abstract: an abstract of between 100 and 200 words should be included at the beginning, in the language used for writing the article. A translation of the abstract into English should be made, if the article is not written in that language, or into Portuguese, if the article is written in English. The abstract must present the objective, a concise description of the method, and the main results achieved, highlighting the scientific contributions of the article.

Keywords: after the abstract, between at least three and at most six keywords, which help in the identification of the main topics discussed in the article, must be included. should be included to help identify the main subjects addressed in the article.

Article: the text should have an introduction section, with the aim of informing the reader about the theme to be discussed, including the results of relevant previous research. A brief literature review must be presented, including key references on which the research work was found. A substantial part of the article should be for describing the development of the research and discussing the results obtained. The description, although brief, should be clear, enabling the reader to fully understand the procedure adopted, or to have access to it by references cited. The research method should be presented in detail, including the outline or strategies used, as well as clearly specified data collection and analysis tools.
An item containing conclusive comments is considered essential, highlighting the main aspects of the research and their contributions to the existing knowledge.

References: all references of publications directly or indirectly cited in the text should be included. Those references must be formatted according to the NBR 6023:2018 standard, and listed in alphabetic order. references should be cited at the end of the article in alphabetical order, according to NBR 6023 - References - Elaboration (2018).

References should be presented according to the instructions, but you should not include too many. If possible, avoid:

  • references to general knowledge on the topic addressed;
  • secondary references (apud);
  • many references to a single argument;
  • predominance of own references.

Examples:

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS. C-780: standard test method for preconstruction and construction evaluation of mortars for plain and reinforced unit masonry. Philadelphia, 1991.

ASSOCIAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE NORMAS TÉCNICAS. NBR 6461: blocos cerâmicos para alvenaria: verificação da resistência à compressão. Rio de Janeiro, 1983a.

ASSOCIAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE NORMAS TÉCNICAS. NBR 7211: agregado para concreto: especificação. Rio de Janeiro, 1983b.

BARROS, M. M. B. Metodologia para implantação de tecnologias construtivas racionalizadas na produção de edifícios. São Paulo, 1996. 410 f. Tese (Doutorado em Engenharia Civil) - Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 1996.

BLEDZIK, A. K. et al. A comparision of compounding process and wood type For wood fibre-pp composites. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, v. 36, p. 789-797, 2005.

BRANDÃO, D. Q.; HEINECK, L. F. M. Classificação das formas de aplicação da flexibilidade arquitetônica planejada em projetos de edifícios residenciais. In: ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUÍDO, 7., Florianópolis, 1998. Anais [...] Florianópolis: UFSC, ANTAC, 1998. v. 2, p. 215-222.

LAVELLE, J. A. Acrylic latex-modified Portland cement. ACI Materials Journal, Detroit, v. 6, n. 1, p. 41-48, jan./feb. 1988.

MORAES, R. C.; ISAIA, G. C.; GASTALDINI, A. L. G. Efeitos da cinza de casca de arroz e fíler calcário sobre a resistência mecânica do concreto. In: CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE CONCRETO, 43., Fortaleza, 2000. Anais [...] Fortaleza: IBRACOM, 2000.

SAKAI, E.; SUGITA, J. Composite mechanism of polymer modified cement. Cement and Concrete Research, Oxforf, v. 25, n. 1, p. 127-135, 1995.

RAPOPORT, A. Environmental Cognition in Cross-Cultural Perspective. In: MOORE, G. T.; GOLLEDGE, R. G. (ed.). Environmental knowing. Stroudsburg: Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, 1976. p. 220-234.

Citations: citations in the body of the text must comply with the way adopted in the references, according to NBR 10520: Presentation of citations in documents (2023), as for example:

According to Morais et al. (2000) ...

... (Brandão, Heineck, 1998).

A NBR 6461 (ABNT, 1983a) specifies ....

Sakai and Sugita (1995) suggest ...

..., (Silva, Roman, 2001; Lavelle, 1998).

... as proposed in C-780 (ASTM, 1991).

Acknowledgments: acknowledgments to research funding agencies, institutions other than the author (s) and any supervisors or people who inspired the research may be mentioned at the end of the article, only in the final version, after the article has been approved for publication.

Footnote marks: footnote marks inserted in the body of the article must be shown by Roman numerals, in superscript format, immediately after the sentence to which it refers. The marks should be included in the footnote of the text, on the page where they appear.

Illustrations: figures, clear photographs and graphs (strictly for the clarity of the text) may be accepted and should be marked in the text by their number and their legend in the places where they should be interspersed. If the submitted illustrations have already been published, please mention the source and permission for reproduction. Illustrations should be called figures.

Charts and tables: charts and tables should be accompanied by a caption to understand the meaning of the data collected. Please indicate in the text (by their number of order and legend) the places where they should be inserted. Charts and tables should be made in a Word document.

Formulas: formulas must be numbered and cited throughout the text.

Style: the text should be clear, direct and precise, avoiding fancy language, excessive adjectives or long phrases.

Doubts, please write to ambienteconstruido@ufrgs.br

 

 

Send of the manuscripts

 

Authors should submit their papers at the Ambiente Construído journal website, where all the necessary steps for submission are described. In this process, all authors must register in the system. The article must be submitted only in a .doc file type. If the article is accepted for publication, after the necessary revisions, the final version should also be in the same format. At the initial submission, authors should also send a permission for publishing the paper, in case it is accepted.

 

 


 

Associação Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído - ANTAC Av. Osvaldo Aranha, 93, 3º andar, 90035-190 Porto Alegre/RS Brasil, Tel.: (55 51) 3308-4084, Fax: (55 51) 3308-4054 - Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil
E-mail: ambienteconstruido@ufrgs.br