Identificação de custos de transação envolvidos em projetos de arquitetura e engenharia para construções industriais

Abstract

In recent years, Brazil has been facing the greatest crisis in its history, directly impacting one of the main agents of growth, the productive investment. The widespread investments drop in all industrial sectors has resulted in the drop of demand for services and products offered by suppliers of the construction production chain, which is one of the largest employers and contributors to the national GDP. However, faced with a scenario of decreasing investments, is it possible to generate value in industrial construction architectural and engineering projects, considering possible transaction costs involved? The present work researched, inside of the productive chain of industrial construction, specifically the architecture and engineering sector and, based on the transaction costs theory (TCT), identified transaction costs involved in industrial construction architectural and engineering projects in the country, demonstrating that such costs must be considered before and after contracting the project. For this, a comprehensive bibliographical research was conducted on how the theory is approached, worldwide, in the industry, allowing the elaboration of two propositions, which were analyzed through several retrospective case studies, and which were carried out through semi-structured interviews with project managers of an international consulting and engineering company, with a prominent position in the sector, present for several decades in the country. This research demonstrates that it is possible to identify transaction costs in industrial construction architectural and engineering projects in Brazil and such costs tend to be different depending on the pricing contract mode.