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
Ricardo Mateus, Jorge Fernandes, Luís Bragança, Manuela Almeida, Sandra Silva, Paulo Mendonça, Helena Gervásio (edts.) (2015). Livro de Atas do Seminário reVer - Contributos da Arquitetura Vernácula Portuguesa para a Sustentabilidade do Ambiente Construído. Guimarães, Portugal: Universidade do Minho.
Ricardo Mateus, Jorge Fernandes, Luís Bragança, Manuela Almeida, Sandra Silva, Paulo Mendonça, Helena Gervásio (edts.) (2015). Livro de Atas do Seminário reVer - Contributos da Arquitetura Vernácula Portuguesa para a Sustentabilidade do Ambiente Construído. Guimarães, Portugal: Universidade do Minho.
Mateus R., Bragança L. Costa, R.J.G., Bezerra, J.C. (2015). Avaliação do custo vs benefício na introdução de medidas de sustentabilidade na reabilitação de edifícios antigos – estudo de caso. Revista Confidencial Imobiliário, pp 26-29. Porto. Julho 2015.
Serôdio F., Fernandes J., Mateus R., Bragança L. Assessment of the Effects of the Expansion of the City of Estarreja on the Rational Land Use, Euro-ELECS 2015, vol. 3, pp. 2045-2054, 2015.
Castro M. F., Mateus R., Bragança L. Estratégia para a incorporação de impactes ambientais, sociais e económicos específicos num método de Avaliação da Sustentabilidade de Edifícios de Saúde (HBSA), Euro-ELECS 2015, vol. 2, pp. 1421-1430, 2015.
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.
Barbosa J. A., Araújo C., Bragança L, Mateus R. Study of the of the concept of community buildings and its importance for Land Use Efficiency, Euro-ELECS 2015, vol. 2, pp. 1347-1354, 2015.
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.
Fernandes, J.; Pimenta, C.; Mateus, R.; Silva, S.M.; Bragança, L. Contribution of Portuguese Vernacular Building Strategies to Indoor Thermal Comfort and Occupants' Perception. Buildings 2015, 5, 1242-1264.
José Amarilio Barbosa, Catarina Araújo, Ricardo Mateus & Luís Bragança (2015): Smart interior design of buildings and its relationship to land use, Architectural Engineering and Design Management, DOI: 10.1080/17452007.2015.1120187
Teixeira, E.R., et al., Comparative environmental life-cycle analysis of concretes using biomass and coal fly
ashes as partial cement replacement material, Journal of Cleaner Production (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.124
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
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.
Barbosa J. A., Mateus R., Bragança L. Occupancy Patterns and Building Performance – Developing occupancy patterns for Portuguese residential buildings. SBE16 Brazil & Portugal - Sustainable Urban Communities towards a Nearly Zero Impact Built Environment, vol. 2, pp. 1193-1200, 2016.
Bragança, L., Andrade, J., Mateus, R. (2016). CHAPTER 4.2 – Planning and Constructing. In Bernhard Hauke, Markus Kuhnhenne, Mark Lawson and Milan Veljkovic (eds). Sustainable Steel Buildings: A Practical Guide for Structures and Envelopes. John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN: 978-1-118-74111-5.
Bragança, L., Andrade, J., Mateus, R. (2016). CHAPTER 4.3 – Sustainable Building Quality. In Bernhard Hauke, Markus Kuhnhenne, Mark Lawson and Milan Veljkovic (eds). Sustainable Steel Buildings: A Practical Guide for Structures and Envelopes. John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN: 978-1-118-74111-5.
Fischer, D. Hauke, B., Bragança, L., Andrade, J., Mateus, R. (2016). CHAPTER 1 - What does ‘sustainable construction’ mean? An overview. In Bernhard Hauke, Markus Kuhnhenne, Mark Lawson and Milan Veljkovic (eds). Sustainable Steel Buildings: A Practical Guide for Structures and Envelopes. John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN: 978-1-118-74111-5.
Mateus R., Bragança L. Avaliação e reconhecimento da sustentabilidade. In Construção sustentável: contributo as ferramentas de avaliação. Maria Teresa Gomes Barbosa, Maria Manuela de Oliveira Guedes de Almeida (eds.). – Curitiba: CRV, 2016. pp 37-86. ISBN 978-85-444-1245-9
Ardda, N.; Mateus, R.; Bragança, L. Methodology to Identify and Prioritise the Social Aspects to Be Considered in the Design of More Sustainable Residential Buildings—Application to a Developing Country. Buildings 2018, 8, 130.
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