CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

The buildings destined to health establishments are among those that require greaterconsumption of energy for their operation. In Argentina, the "Norms of Organization andFunctioning" of the National Quality Assurance Program for Medical Care demand highdegrees of acclimatization. This necessity to maintain high environmental and healthstandards contribute to a greater energy demand; and, therefore, that the need arises toimplement measures that generates very important energy savings that, in turn, make itpossible to reorient resources towards health prevention and clinical care. This work proposesthe architectural redesign for the thermo-energy efficiency of a Primary Health Care Center(CAPS) in the province of Tucumán, Argentina and the verification thereof, according tostandards, in order to achieve its bioenvironmental adequacy through architectural andtechnological provisions that contribute to improve the comfort and health conditions of itsusers, to achieve the rational use of energy and the care of the environment. A methodologicalcombination was used, through the following methods: case study, descriptive, analytical,deductive and correlational. The actions carried out were: 1) Recognition and geographicalcharacterization of the study area; 2) Definition of bio-environmental guidelines andstrategies; 3) Analysis of the prototype: architectural layout, technological and thermo-physical characteristics of the envelope; 4) Re-design proposal for its bioenvironmentaladjustment; 5) Energy efficiency labeling. Likewise, the results reached in this respect and theconclusions in relation to the importance of applying and validating these guidelines andstrategies in the design and production of new CAPS or in interventions in those already existing are exposed.

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