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
@conference {2191, title = {The importance of the category of consciousness and education for sustainability in methodologies for eco-efficiency in school buildings}, 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 = {2449-2456}, publisher = {Bragan{\c c}a, L., Yuba, A. \& Alvarez, C.}, address = {Guimar{\~a}es, Portugal - 21-23 July, 2015}, abstract = {This document reports the importance of the category of consciousness and
}, keywords = {SBTool, school buildings, sustainability assessment methodologies, sustainable consciousness, sustainable education.}, isbn = {978-989-96543-8-9}, author = {Saraiva, T. and Almeida, Manuela G. and Bragan{\c c}a, L.} }
education for sustainability in the school environment. Education in school has a potential to
make the benefits of the building construction visible for society and media, showing to the
students, parents and communities how sustainability in built environment could improve the
people life in economic, social and environment aspects. Thus, this paper addresses the main
events related to sustainability, such as the Stockholm Conference, the Brundtland report,
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) and Agenda 21, until
reaching the necessity of the elaboration of Methodologies for environmental assessment of
building, and later, the development of the specific methodologies according to the buildings. It
is also described some examples of sustainability in schools in Germany, Finland and Italy and
what kind of sustainable systems those countries are currently using.
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 24 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