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
@inbook {1954, title = {Low cost construction: State of the art and prospects for using structure wood apartment buildings in Portugal}, booktitle = {Structures and Architecture: Concepts, Applications and Challenges}, year = {2013}, month = {2013-07-24 00:00:00}, pages = {2168-2175}, publisher = { Taylor \& Francis Group, London}, organization = { Taylor \& Francis Group, London}, edition = {Cruz (ed)}, chapter = {Low cost construction: State of the art and prospects for using structure wood apartment buildings in Portugal}, abstract = {The Low cost concept in buildings is normally associated with the construction of social housing. Today, with the economic crisis, this concept becomes increasingly important to all areas and in the different social hierarchies. Low cost architecture emerges as the demand to find economical constructive solutions, but still allowing good visual, hygrothermal and acoustic performances. Wood emerges as an excellent material able to achieve all these objectives. The ease decomposition and re-composition of prefabrication wood systems allow the flexibility of the building components, being capable of generating multiple combinatorial possibilities, customized and capable of responding to the users{\textquoteright} changing requests. This work aims to make a description of the evolution of the low cost concept within the industry of building construction, to provide a description of the state of the art and characterization of the potential of wood structures in multi-storey buildings, and place this type of structural solution in the {\textquotedblleft}purposes{\textquotedblright} or objectives of the low cost construction.
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}, keywords = {Low cost construction, multi-storey buildings, wood structures}, isbn = {978-0-415-66195-9}, author = {Oliveira, M. and Couto, J. P. and Mendon{\c c}a, P. and Branco, J. and Reis, A.} }
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