Urban and environmental policies are structured to contribute to the conservation and improvement of human health, to solve structural problems of cities, to promote inclusive cities and the appropriate use of natural... [ view full abstract ]
Urban and environmental policies are structured to contribute to the conservation and improvement of human health, to solve structural problems of cities, to promote inclusive cities and the appropriate use of natural resources in the buildings, in order to take advantage of environmental conditions, optimize the use of materials and their waste and generate more and better solutions on the built environment. In this sense, Resolution 0549 of 2015 of the Ministry of Housing, City and Territory, "The Guide to Sustainable Construction for saving water and energy in buildings”, classified the country in four climates: warm dry, warm wet, temperate and cold to establish the percentage of water and energy to save, according to the specific conditions of each municipality. However, this classification in general ignores some particularities of the weather of municipalities, that can provide specific information to develop better sustainable buildings. Therefore, the objective of this research was to propose a bioclimatic classification that includes the climate and at the same time the human comfort, since they are the reason for the consumption of water and energy. The research was descriptive, at an exploratory level, with a documentary and correlational design based on secondary information. For the information survey of each municipality, the coordinates was taken of Google Earth. With these coordinates, we obtained the climatological data from Meteonorm software and the recommended bioclimatic strategies from Climate Consultant software, which were consolidated in a database and analyzed with MS Excel to relate variables. This allowed, to propose a Bioclimatic Classification System with seven bioclimatic zones, based on the Caldas-Lang classification. A system recognized in Colombia that allowed to designate as bioclimatic indicators, for Cundinamarca State, altitude, temperature, precipitation, relative humidity and solar brightness. Variables such as relative humidity, wind speed, predominant wind direction, and solar radiation were found to be homogeneous for the entire territory of Cundinamarca studied. Thus, it was possible to individualize each munucipality and establish a normative based on an analysis that considered the environmental context of the munucipalities, which offers the opportunity to impact regulation and local public policies, which makes the proposed bioclimatic classification a tool of social inclusion.
