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    @conference {2186,
    	title = {Cost optimal strategies for the renovation of residential neighbourhoods towards energy and emissions neutrality {\textendash} Rainha Dona Leonor case study},
    	journal = {EURO ELECS 2015 - Latin-American and European Conference on Sustainable Buildings and Communities},
    	volume = {volume 3},
    	year = {2015},
    	month = {2015-07-21 00:00:00},
    	pages = {1706-1714},
    	publisher = {Bragan{\c c}a, L., Yuba, A. \& Alvarez, C.},
    	address = {Guimar{\~a}es, Portugal - 21-23 July, 2015},
    	abstract = {

    Buildings are one of the major consumers of energy in Europe. This makes them an
    important target when aiming to reduce the energy consumptions and carbon emissions. The
    majority of the European building stock has already some decades and so it needs renovation in
    order to keep its functionality. Taking advantage of these interventions, the energy performance
    of the buildings may also be improved. In Portugal the renovation techniques, both regarding
    energy efficiency measures as well as measures for the use of renewable energy sources, are
    normally planned at the building scale. It is important to explore the possibility of having large
    scale interventions, has it has been done in other countries, namely at neighbourhood scale with
    district energy system in order to optimize the results in terms of costs and environmental
    impact.

    }, keywords = {Cost Optimal Strategie, Energy Performance of Buildings, European Building Stock, residential renovation}, isbn = {978-989-96543-8-9}, author = {Ferreira, M. and Almeida, Manuela G. and Rodrigues, A.} }

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    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


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