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
Fernandes, J.; Pimenta, C.; Mateus, R.; Bragança, L.; Monteiro da Silva, S. (2014). Análise da influência das varandas envidraçadas da arquitetura vernácula beirã no comportamento térmico dos edifícios. In Luís Bragança, Rui Fangueiro (Edts), Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Construction and Rehabilitation 2014, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal, October 2014.
Macedo A., Mateus R., Monteiro da Silva S. (2014). Avaliação da Sustentabilidade de Soluções de Reabilitação Energética para Coberturas de um Edifício de Habitação. II Workshop on Sustainable Building and Rehabilitation. Guimarães, Portugal, October. pp 1-11.
Mateus, I.; Mateus, R.; Monteiro da Silva, S. Optimization of the Sustainability during the Refurbishment design phase of a Residential Building Using SBToolpt-H. Proceedings of the II Workshop in Sustainable Construction and Rehabilitation, Guimarães, Portugal, pp. 1-8. 2014
Fernandes, J.E.P; Mateus, R.; Bragança, L.; Correia da Silva, J.; Monteiro da Silva, S. (2014). An Analysis of the Potentialities of Portuguese Vernacular Architecture to Improve Energy Efficiency. PLEA 2014 - Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies, 16-18 December 2014, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. pp 1-8.
Fernandes, V.; Mateus, R.; Bragança, L.; Monteiro da Silva, S.; Guedes de Almeida, M. (2014). Life cycle assessment of solar thermal systems. Proceedings of the international conference IAHS 2014 - Sustainable Housing Construction. Funchal, Portugal, ITeCons: 16-19 December. pp. 1-8.
C Lamnatou, D Chemisana, R Mateus, MG Almeida (2015). Review and perspectives on Life Cycle Analysis of solar technologies with emphasis on building-integrated solar thermal systems. Renewable Energy 75 (2015). pp. 833-846.
Fernandes, J., Pimenta, C., Mateus, R., Bragança, L., & Monteiro Silva, S. (2015). A Influência das Estratégias Vernáculas de Adaptação ao Clima no Comportamento Térmico dos Edifícios - Beira Alta e Alentejo. In R. Mateus, J. Fernandes, L. Bragança, M. Almeida, S. Silva, P. Mendonça, & H. Gervásio (Eds.), Livro de Atas do Seminário reVer: Contributos da arquitetura vernácula portuguesa para a sustentabilidade do ambiente construído (pp. 19–30). Porto: 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.
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.
Struck C., Guedes de Almeida M., Monteiro da Silva S., Mateus R., Lemarchand P., Petrovski A., Rabenseifer R., Wansdronk R., Wellershoff F., de Wit J. (2015). Adaptive facade systems – review of performance requirements, design approaches, use cases and market needs. Proceedings of the international conference “Advanced Building Skins". Bern, Switzerland, 3rd to 4th, November, 2015. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2023.8165.
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.
Marco Ferreira, Manuela Almeida, Ana Rodrigues & Sandra Monteiro Silva (2016) Comparing cost-optimal and net-zero energy targets in building retrofit, Building Research & Information, 44:2, 188-201, DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2014.975412
Sandra Monteiro Silva, Ricardo Mateus, Luís Marques, Marta Ramos, Manuela Almeida. Contribution of the solar systems to the nZEB and ZEB design concept in Portugal – Energy, economics and environmental life cycle analysis, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, May 2016.
Mateus R., Monteiro Silva S., Guedes Almeida, M. Environmental Life-Cycle Analysis of Solar Systems. In Building Integrated Solar Systems – Design and applications handbook. Soteris A. Kalogirou (ed.). Nicosia: Cyprus University of Tecnology, 2017. pp 202-226. ISBN 978-9963-697-22-9
Grobman Y., Chen N., Cory J., Monteiro Silva S., Mateus R., Guedes Almeida, M. Porter Building, Tel Aviv, Israel. In Building Integrated Solar Systems – Design and applications handbook. Soteris A. Kalogirou (ed.). Nicosia: Cyprus University of Tecnology, 2017. pp 391-398. ISBN 978-9963-697-22-9
Mateus R., Monteiro Silva S., Guedes de Almeida M. The importance of the solar systems to achieve the nZEB level in the energy renovation of southern Europe’s buildings. In Proceedings of First International Conference on Building Integrated Renewable Energy Systems. Soteris A. Kalogirou and David Kennedy (eds.). Dublin: Dublin Institute of Technology (Imp), 2017. ISBN: 978-9963-697-23-6.
R. Mateus, et al., Environmental and cost life cycle analysis of the impact of using solar systems in energy renovation of Southern European single-family buildings, Renewable Energy (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.04.036
Fernandes J, Mateus R, Gervásio H, Silva SM, Bragança Luís, Passive strategies used in Southern Portugal vernacular rammed earth buildings and their influence in thermal performance, Renewable Energy (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.04.098
Jorge Fernandes, Sandra M. Silva, Ricardo Mateus, Elisabete R. Teixeira,
Analysis of the Thermal Performance and Comfort Conditions of Vernacular Rammed Earth Architecture From Southern Portugal, Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering, Elsevier, 2019, ISBN 9780128035818, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803581-8.11460-2.
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