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 {764, title = {The contribute of using vernacular materials and techniques for sustainable building}, journal = {Portugal SB13 - Contribution of Sustainable Building to Meet EU 20-20-20 Targets}, year = {2013}, month = {2013-01-01 00:00:00}, pages = {269{\textendash}276}, publisher = {Multicomp}, address = {Guimar{\~a}es Portugal}, abstract = {The use of local materials and techniques is one of the main features from vernacular architecture. When compared with industrially-produced materials, vernacular materials have low environmental impacts, being an alternative for sustainable building. However, industrialization have brought new standardized materials that led to the homogenization of the different building approaches and spawned a universal architecture often with no context concerns and with significant environmental impacts. As for sustainability, vernacular materials have potential to evolve and to be adapted to contemporary needs, helping to reduce the embodied energy and environmental impacts. Therefore, this paper addresses potential advantages of using local materials and techniques in the Portuguese context. Moreover, this paper establishes a comparison between vernacular and industrially-produced at level of environmental indicators (embodied energy and global warming potencial).
}, keywords = {Architecture, Building materials, Eco-efficient materials, Popular architecture, Sustainability, Vernacular}, url = {http://sieeum.eng.uminho.pt/publicacoes/pub.aspx?pubid=15927}, author = {Fernandes, J. E. P. and Mateus, R. and Bragan{\c c}a, L.} }
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.
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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