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
Al Tawayha, F.; Braganca, L.; Mateus, R. Contribution of the Vernacular Architecture to the Sustainability: A Comparative Study between the Contemporary Areas and the Old Quarter of a Mediterranean City. Sustainability 2019, 11, 896.
Castro M.F., Mateus R., and Bragança L. “Strategy for the incorporation of specific environmental, social and economic impacts in a Healthcare Building Sustainable Assessment (HBSA) method”. Revista Hábitat Sustentable, Vol. 6, Nº1, June 2016, ISSN 0719-0700
Castro, M.F.; Mateus, R.; Serôdio, F.; Bragança, L. Development of Benchmarks for Operating Costs and Resources Consumption to be Used in Healthcare Building Sustainability Assessment Methods. Sustainability 2015, 7, 13222-13248.
Castro, M.F.; Mateus, R.; Bragança, L. (2014). A critical analysis of building sustainability assessment methods for healthcare buildings. Environment, Development and Sustainability, pp 1-32. DOI: 10.1007/s10668-014-9611-0.
Rui Reis et al., 2014, Key Engineering Materials, 634, 288
Ricardo Mateus, Jorge Fernandes, Elisabete R. Teixeira,
Environmental Life Cycle Analysis of Earthen Building Materials,
Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering,
Elsevier, 2019, ISBN 9780128035818, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803581-8.11459-6.
Tawayha F. A., Bragança L., Mateus R. Ecology and environment, an urban scale comparative study between contemporary and vernacular city of Nablus. SBE16 Brazil & Portugal - Sustainable Urban Communities towards a Nearly Zero Impact Built Environment, vol. 3, pp. 1589-1598, 2016.
Tawayha F., Mateus R., Bragança L. The influence of the Palestinian sociocultural values in shaping the vernacular architecture of Nablus city, Euro-ELECS 2015, vol. 2, pp. 923-930, 2015.
Loureiro M., Mateus R. Moradias sobredimensionadas dos anos 70‐90 na periferia de Braga: Processo de transformação, Euro-ELECS 2015, vol. 2, pp. 903-911, 2015.
Gonçalves J., Mateus R., Ferreira T. Tradição em Continuidade: monitorização das estratégias bioclimáticas das Quintas no Nordeste Transmontano, Euro-ELECS 2015, vol. 2, pp. 913-922, 2015.
Marques, Luis P.; Santos, Luis M. e Couto, João P. (2015). The importance of integrated implementation of lean construction and bim for improving the sustainability of construction projects. SHEWC`2015 – XV SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT WORLD CONGRESS – Keeping Planet “Water Earth” Safe and Sound: a challenge to Science and Technology. COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and Sciences, 19-22 July, Porto, Portugal. pp. 152-156, ISBN 978-85-65992-44-2. Claudio da Rocha Brito & Melany M.Ciampi (Publishers). DOI 10.14684/SHEWC.15.2015.152-156.
Castro, M. F.; Mateus, R.; Bragança, L.. Proposal for a Healthcare Building Sustainability Assessment BSA) Method. Proceedings of the International Conference World SB14 Barcelona, Barcelona, Espanha, pp. 1-7.
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