LAURA DANIELA RAMÍREZ CÁRDENAS

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SECTION 3
Topic: Social Development

Title: How Civil Engineering has impacted the environment in Colombia in the last century.

Related Literature

GUIDE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPER BUSINESS PRACTICES IN ENVIRONMENTAL

MANAGEMENT RELATED TO ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS IN COLOMBIA SUSTAINABLE
SYSTEM FOR ROAD WORKS
The real reason for the concern about the present situation of environmental responsibility arises
from the negative effects of change and alteration of the environment currently evidenced and
induced mainly due to the activities of growth and inappropriate use of resources of the
population worldwide. Now the concept of “sustainability” is used on which arises from the need
to achieve in all human actions a new respect for the environment, humanity and the economy,
that is a development with the use of resources in a reasonable manner.

Thompson Perdomo, R. T. (2014). GUÍA PARA LA IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE LAS ADECUADAS

PRÁCTICAS EMPRESARIALES EN GESTIÓN AMBIENTAL RELACIONADA CON LAS OBRAS DE
INFRAESTRUCTURA VIAL EN COLOMBIA SISTEMA SOSTENIBLE PARA OBRAS VIALES. Recuperado 28
octubre, 2019, de
https://repository.javeriana.edu.co/bitstream/handle/10554/17955/ThompsonPerdomoRandhy20
14.pdf?sequence=1

Engineering and environment

Precisely, engineering has contributed to generate many of these changes in nature, among which
are those of great benefit to the population, but also those that are considered unsustainable
from an environmental and social perspective.

Environmental unsustainability, understood as the overflow of the limits imposed by nature, in

many cases has its origin in the patterns of production and consumption in themselves. But, as we
know, neither the engineering professionals who participated in the creation and implementation
of technologies that have been critical to solve various human needs, nor the beneficiaries of
them, imagined at the time that many of them could bring with them negative consequences that
we know today.

Rodriguez Becerra, M. A. N. U. E. L. (2007, diciembre). SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online.

Recuperado 28 octubre, 2019, de http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext

Previous work
Pollution and civil Works.
For civil engineering, the main objective is to contribute to society, making use of natural
resources to be able to move forward with infrastructure and for society to meet all its needs,
always bearing in mind that we must take care of the Earth, which is our main home.

Sosa Zumárraga, Monografias.com, N. A. T. A. L. I. A. de Jesús. (s.f.). La contaminación y las obras

civiles - Monografias.com. Recuperado 28 octubre, 2019, de
https://www.monografias.com/trabajos108/contaminacion-y-obras-civiles/contaminacion-y-
obras-civiles.shtml

Reflections on the role of Civil Engineering in the evolution of the environment in Colombia.

Although Colombia's recent environmental deterioration is mainly explained by a strong

demographic and economic increase in conditions of very low state control, the construction of
infrastructure works has contributed significantly to this deterioration. The inclusion of
environmental considerations in large engineering projects has progressed in recent decades. In
the future, the challenge remains for the profession to assume, fully, a professional ethic that
incorporates environmental values and that puts the interests of society in general, including
future generations.

Mariño, J. U. A. N. José. (2007, 31 octubre). Reflexiones sobre el papel de la Ingeniería Civil en la

evolución del medio ambiente en Colombia. Recuperado 28 octubre, 2019, de
http://www.scielo.org.co/pdf/ring/n26/n26a9.pdf

State of the Art

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS PRODUCED BY THE USE OF MACHINERY IN THE CONSTRUCTION
SECTOR.
…purpose investigate and analyze everything related with the environmental impacts that are
produced by the use of machinery in Civil Engineering construction projects, for which a
bibliographic review that allowed impact characterization biotic environmental, abiotic and their
sources of generation, as well as the areas of influence that are affected; also a description of the
different machinery, vehicles and equipment that are used in construction works and each of the
impacts are described in detail and effects that these generate at environmental and social level

GALINDO RUIZ, J. SNEIDER, & SILVA NÚÑEZ, H. DUVÁN. (2016). IMPACTOS AMBIENTALES
PRODUCIDOS POR EL USO DE MAQUINARIA EN EL SECTOR DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN. Recuperado 28
octubre, 2019, de
https://repository.ucatolica.edu.co/bitstream/10983/12566/4/IMPACTOS%20AMBIENTALES%20P
RODUCIDOS%20POR%20EL%20USO%20DE%20MAQUINARIA%20E

SUSTAINABILITY: CURRENT AND NEEDED IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR IN COLOMBIA.

Construction, in addition to being indispensable for the development of society, is also one of the
main responsible for the generation of waste, pollution, transformation of the environment and
considerable use of energy. These reasons do not allow you to be indifferent to the current
environmental problem. This article, addressed to the academic and professional community,
presents a way of diagnosing the current situation of the construction sector in Colombia, in
relation to the environmental impact it generates. For this, it exposes a general context of the
construction in relation to its environmental impact, makes a chronological route through the
practices and strategies that, both historically and at present, affects the reduction of the
environmental impact and, finally, presents The results of a survey of a representative sample of
construction companies in the Aburrá Valley, Antioquia, which include aspects related to the
concept of sustainable construction and the actions that the company develops around the
environmental issue.

HARLEM ACEVEDO AGUDELO, H. (2012, 1 enero). SOSTENIBILIDAD: ACTUALIDAD Y NECESIDAD EN

EL SECTOR DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN EN COLOMBIA | ACEVEDO AGUDELO | Gestión y Ambiente.
Recuperado 28 octubre, 2019, de
https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/gestion/article/view/30825/39307

RESUMEN

Estudios realizados reflejan el impacto ambiental en las últimas décadas,

principalmente por un importante incremento demográfico, económico y cultural,
además de unas normativas estatales que absuelven de cualquier culpabilidad a
las empresas. En el último siglo se han incorporado consideraciones ambientales
en los grandes y medianos proyectos de ingeniería. En la actualidad y para las
generaciones futuras, queda el reto de asumir con absoluta responsabilidad una
ética profesional que incorpore valores ambientales y que anteponga a los
intereses particulares, los de la sociedad en general.