PERFORMANCE BASED HOUSING POLICY IMPLEMENTATION: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION, INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS

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The building sector is one of the most strategic sectors everywhere in the sustainability context because of it's socioeconomic role as one of the largest employers and also because of it's evironmental role as one of the world's biggest polluter. The adoption of a performance based procurement process to implement the Brazilian public housing policy is, as shown in this paper, a huge step the State might take towards the promotion of sustainable construction, using it's significative purchase power to foster a fruitful environment for innovation, sustainability and competitiveness all along the Brazilian building sector value chain, having a leading role towards the path to a global low-carbon economy – with less greenhouse gas emission, contributing to slow down global warming – and also successfully fulfilling the targets of the national housing policy.