Abstract
This article aims to measure the economic impact of adopting a sustainable construction concept in the Mineirão Stadium project. We adopted the ex-post-fact Documentary Research in this qualitative research, since the secondary data were obtained from published information in periods prior to this research. In order to achieve the project goal, we obtained the amounts invested to make the construction sustainable through documental research in the Mineirão Stadium website, and sources such as Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU), Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), and press. The amounts were also evaluated in three distinct scenarios. We evaluated the gains that sustainable construction offers through the efficiency in the use of electricity and the re-use of water. These two items being responsible for saving approximately two million Brazilian Reais (BRL) per year. We verified that the sustainable awareness in the construction of the Mineirão Stadium was reached due to its obligation to obtain financing from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), proven by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - LEED Platinum certification.
Keywords:
Sustainability; Energy efficiency; Certification LEED