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 | Using the SBToolPT-H to optimize the sustainability during the design phase of a refurbishment operation of a residential Building |
Publication Type | Communications in International Conferences |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Mateus I., Mateus, R., and Silva S. M. |
Abstract | Most of the existing building stock high resources consumption and low indoor environmental quality, leading to the unsustainability of the built environment. It is then urgent to define guidelines that could support the sustainable refurbishment design of buildings since the earlier stages, in order to meet European goal to achieve Nearly-Zero Energy consumption standard in buildings in 2020. This paper presents the process of sustainable building refurbishment, applied to a case study, and defines guidelines to optimize the sustainability of a residential building. To achieve this goal, the definition and evaluation of a group of procedures to be implemented, and a cost-benefit analysis applied to a case study was performed. |
Conference Name | REHAB 2014 - International Conference on Preservation, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Historical Buildings and Structures |
Pagination | 1145-1154 |
Date Published | 2014-03-19 |
Publisher | Greenlines Institute for Sustainable Development |
Conference Location | Tomar, Portugal |
DOI | 10.14575/gl/rehab2014/115 |
Keywords | Case study, Cost optimal analysis, Nearly-zero Energy Buildings, SBToolPT-H, Sustainability assessment |
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