Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
Title | Analysis of Portuguese Residential Buildings’ Needs and Proposed Solutions |
Publication Type | Communications in International Conferences |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Guimarães E., Bragança, L., Almeida, Manuela G., and Mateus, R. |
Abstract | The Portuguese housing sector experienced a significant growth throughout the 20th century, particularly in the last quarter, after the democratic revolution in 1974. In fact, the number of buildings built between 1970 and 1990 is more than one third of the buildings actually existing in Portugal. Therefore most of them were built before the publication of the first regulation concerning the energy efficiency in buildings. Regarding this scenario, it would be expected that rehabilitation activities would represent most of the current construction activities. However, given some remaining barriers from old social policies, this situation is not observed; actually building retrofitting is the least significant sector, accentuating the degradation level of major part of the Portuguese housing stock. Several studies show that the main problems are found in the building’s envelope elements, such as roofs and façades. Based on this context, the aim of this paper is to introduce some examples of building retrofitting systems that, adapted to the Portuguese main needs and requirements may represent sustainable solutions to overcome the identified needs of Portuguese buildings’ envelope. |
Conference Name | EURO ELECS 2015 - Latin-American and European Conference on Sustainable Buildings and Communities |
Journal | Proceedings of EURO ELECS 2015 |
Volume | volume 2 |
Issue | Chapter 9: Sustainable building technology and management |
Pagination | 1271-1280 |
Date Published | 2015-07-21 |
Publisher | Bragança, L., Yuba, A. & Alvarez, C. |
Conference Location | Guimarães, Portugal - 21-23 July, 2015 |
ISBN | 978‐989‐96543‐8‐9 |
Keywords | Energy Retrofitting, Housing Envelopes, Portugal, Sustainable Retrofitting. |
Rights | openAccess |
Peer reviewed | yes |
Status | published |
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more
Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt