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2020-05-01

Class entities from timber house production sector in Brazil

Entidades de clase del sector productivo de casas de madera en Brasil

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https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v40n2.78388

Keywords:

association, union, timber house, sectoral survey, interview (en)
asociación, sindicato, viviendas en madera, encuesta sectorial, entrevista (es)

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  • Victor Almeida De Araujo Ligno Research Group
  • João Paulo Cachaneski Lopes São Paulo State University
  • Elen Aparecida Martines Morales São Paulo State University
  • Juliana Cortez-Barbosa São Paulo State University
  • Maristela Gava São Paulo State University
  • José Nivaldo Garcia University of São Paulo

Corporate representativeness is an important issue for engineering and its industrial sectors, considering that producer associations can defend represent the rights and ambitions of their members. This study aims to investigate timber housing producer participation in generalist organizations, as well as to identify which examples of class entities could be created to consolidate this industry in the Brazilian scenario. A short survey was personally applied to entrepreneurs from the timber house production sector in Brazil. This survey was based in four qualitative queries, whose responses were converted into percentage. The studied producers revealed that the sector does not have an official organization to represent them, forcing them to search for different representation mechanisms from other sectors related to this industry. The lack of corporate and/or labor representation is visible to the point where several interviewed entrepreneurs declared the need to create unions for workers, as well as class associations for producers. Thus, suggestions for a new organization were described to establish a direction for organizing this sector in Brazil.

La representatividad corporativa es un tema importante para la Ingeniería y sus sectores industriales, teniendo en cuenta que la asociación de productores puede defender los derechos y ambiciones de sus miembros. Este estudio tiene como objetivo investigar la participación de los productores de viviendas de madera en organizaciones generalistas, así como identificar qué ejemplos de entidades de clase podrían ser creadas para consolidar esta industria en el escenario brasileño. Se aplicó personalmente una breve encuesta a los empresarios del sector de producción de casas de madera en Brasil. Esta encuesta se basó en dos consultas cualitativas, cuyas respuestas se convirtieron en porcentajes. Los productores estudiados revelaron que el sector no tiene una organización oficial que los represente, lo que tiene obligado en buscar diferentes mecanismos de representación de otros sectores relacionados con esta industria. La falta de representación corporativa y/o laboral es visible al punto en que muchos empresarios entrevistados declararon la necesidad de crear sindicatos para los trabajadores y asociaciones de clase para los productores. Así, se describieron sugerencias de nuevas organizaciones para establecer una dirección en la organización de este sector en Brasil.

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De Araujo, V. A., Lopes, J. P. C., Morales, E. A. M., Cortez-Barbosa, J., Gava, M. & Garcia, J. N. (2020). Class entities from timber house production sector in Brazil. Ingeniería e Investigación, 40(2), 43–49. https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v40n2.78388

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De Araujo, V.A., Lopes, J.P.C., Morales, E.A.M., Cortez-Barbosa, J., Gava, M. and Garcia, J.N. 2020. Class entities from timber house production sector in Brazil. Ingeniería e Investigación. 40, 2 (May 2020), 43–49. DOI:https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v40n2.78388.

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De Araujo, V. A.; Lopes, J. P. C.; Morales, E. A. M.; Cortez-Barbosa, J.; Gava, M.; Garcia, J. N. Class entities from timber house production sector in Brazil. Ing. Inv. 2020, 40, 43-49.

ABNT

DE ARAUJO, V. A.; LOPES, J. P. C.; MORALES, E. A. M.; CORTEZ-BARBOSA, J.; GAVA, M.; GARCIA, J. N. Class entities from timber house production sector in Brazil. Ingeniería e Investigación, [S. l.], v. 40, n. 2, p. 43–49, 2020. DOI: 10.15446/ing.investig.v40n2.78388. Disponível em: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/78388. Acesso em: 22 mar. 2026.

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De Araujo, Victor Almeida, João Paulo Cachaneski Lopes, Elen Aparecida Martines Morales, Juliana Cortez-Barbosa, Maristela Gava, and José Nivaldo Garcia. 2020. “Class entities from timber house production sector in Brazil”. Ingeniería E Investigación 40 (2):43-49. https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v40n2.78388.

Harvard

De Araujo, V. A., Lopes, J. P. C., Morales, E. A. M., Cortez-Barbosa, J., Gava, M. and Garcia, J. N. (2020) “Class entities from timber house production sector in Brazil”, Ingeniería e Investigación, 40(2), pp. 43–49. doi: 10.15446/ing.investig.v40n2.78388.

IEEE

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V. A. De Araujo, J. P. C. Lopes, E. A. M. Morales, J. Cortez-Barbosa, M. Gava, and J. N. Garcia, “Class entities from timber house production sector in Brazil”, Ing. Inv., vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 43–49, May 2020.

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De Araujo, V. A., J. P. C. Lopes, E. A. M. Morales, J. Cortez-Barbosa, M. Gava, and J. N. Garcia. “Class entities from timber house production sector in Brazil”. Ingeniería e Investigación, vol. 40, no. 2, May 2020, pp. 43-49, doi:10.15446/ing.investig.v40n2.78388.

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De Araujo, Victor Almeida, João Paulo Cachaneski Lopes, Elen Aparecida Martines Morales, Juliana Cortez-Barbosa, Maristela Gava, and José Nivaldo Garcia. “Class entities from timber house production sector in Brazil”. Ingeniería e Investigación 40, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 43–49. Accessed March 22, 2026. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/78388.

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De Araujo VA, Lopes JPC, Morales EAM, Cortez-Barbosa J, Gava M, Garcia JN. Class entities from timber house production sector in Brazil. Ing. Inv. [Internet]. 2020 May 1 [cited 2026 Mar. 22];40(2):43-9. Available from: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/78388

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