Considering the construction sector’s impact on the environment, it is necessary amongst other measures to change the way in which new construction or renovation projects of buildings are designed and how solutions are proposed and integrated. Nowadays, an effort is being made by designers to implement more sustainable and circular design in buildings, but because of the lack of tools that can provide designers...
The European Green Deal defined by the European Commission on December 2019 presents an ambitious set of measures for the European Union and its citizens to accomplish the challenge of climate change, making Europe until 2050 the first neutral continent, where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases. The Passive House (PH) concept has the same ambitious goal, targeting the reduction of the carbon footpri...
This paper presents the current state of development of a generation and performance evaluation tool to assist building practitioners in the early stages of deep renovation of buildings. This includes the tool workflow and its modules, such as the generative design method, the building performance evaluation mechanism, and the optimization procedure that improves the building geometry and construction system, a...
Atualmente, a indústria da construção é um dos principais setores europeus responsáveis pelos elevados níveis de consumo de energia, extração de matérias-primas e produção de resíduos. Cada vez mais o consumo de energia proveniente de fontes renováveis e a reutilização de resíduos industriais constituem a única maneira de minimizar este problema para o meio ambiente e sociedade. A incorporação simultânea de mat...
The rapid world economic growth has led to an increase in the energy consumption. So, the energy efficiency of buildings is very important because this is one of the leading sectors in energy consumption, in developed countries. The phase change materials (PCM) have the ability to reduce the temperature variation, due to their capability of absorbing and releasing energy to the environment. The PCM can be incor...
Hoje em dia são inúmeras as preocupações relacionadas com os elevados consumos energéticos, tais como preocupações ambientais, sociais e económicas. A indústria da construção é um dos sectores líderes no consumo de energia elétrica, assumindo assim um importante papel no estudo e desenvolvimento de soluções para esta problemática. Atualmente existe já o conceito de pobreza energética, que se encontra relacionad...
Increasingly in a society with a high growth rate and standards of comfort, the need to minimize the currently high energy consumption by taking advantage of renewable energy sources arises. The mortars with incorporation of phase change materials (PCM) have the ability to regulate the temperature inside buildings, contributing for an increase in the level of thermal comfort and reduction of the use of heating,...
Increasingly in a society with a high growth rate and standards of comfort, the need to minimize the currently high energy consumption by taking advantage of renewable energy sources arises. The mortars with incorporation of phase change materials (PCM) have the ability to regulate the temperature inside buildings, contributing for an increase in the level of thermal comfort and reduction of the use of heating,...
O despertar da consciência ambiental pela sociedade, tem levantado problemas até então ignorados tais como os consumos energéticos. Numa sociedade com um elevado ritmo de crescimento e padrões de conforto cada vez mais maiores, surge a necessidade de minimizar os elevados consumos energéticos, tirando partido de fontes de energia renováveis. As argamassas com incorporação de materiais de mudança de fase (PCM) p...
As argamassas com incorporação de materiais de mudança de fase (PCM) possuem a capacidade de regular a temperatura no interior dos edifícios, contribuindo desta forma para o aumento do nível de conforto e diminuindo o recurso a equipamentos de climatização. Este estudo teve como principal objetivo o desenvolvimento de argamassas com integração de microcápsulas de PCM, devendo estas apresentar um compromisso ent...