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 {513, title = {Sustainable Construction Key Indicators}, journal = {Portugal SB13 - Contribution of Sustainable Building to Meet EU 20-20-20 Targets}, year = {2013}, month = {2013-10-30 00:00:00}, pages = {505{\textendash}512}, publisher = {Multicomp}, address = {Guimar{\~a}es Portugal, 30 outubro a 1 novembro 2013}, abstract = {Sustainable building is a concept that began its development nearly two decades ago. With sustainable buildings, it is intended to establish building practices that allow minimizing the buildings impacts, build and manage buildings with an adequate balance between environment, society and economy. However, besides the importance of this concept, its broader implementation is not yet a reality. Several studies have been developed with the goal of understand the reason of these weak implementation. They have concluded that one of the main reasons is because the building stakeholders still consider sustainable practices more expensive, although several studies state the contrary. In order to potentiate the implementation of these practices, a work will be developed in order to perform a cost-benefit analysis of sustainable construction solutions. In order to perform this work, it was necessary, in an initial stage, to define the key indicators that should be considered in order to assess the main aspects of sustainable construction. This paper intends to present the analysis that was performed in order to select these indicators.
}, keywords = {Sustainable building, Sustainable Construction}, isbn = {978-989-96543-7-2}, url = {http://sieeum.eng.uminho.pt/publicacoes/pub.aspx?pubid=17248}, author = {Ara{\'u}jo, C. and Bragan{\c c}a, L. and Almeida, Manuela G.} }
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