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Fernanda Paes de Barros Gomide, Luís Bragança and Eloy Fassi Casagrande Junior
The construction sector stands as the predominant consumer of cement, steel, and plastic and is accountable for a substantial 55% of industrial carbon emissions. Greenhouse gases and other forms of pollution linked to the housing sector significantly con...
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Genesis Camila Cervantes Puma, Adriana Salles, Janez Turk, Viorel Ungureanu and Luís Bragança
This research explores sustainable construction practices focusing on material reuse, specifically reclaimed structural steel and slag. In general, the building stock is not designed for deconstruction, and material recovery for reuse at the end of life ...
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Luís Bragança and María Concepción Verde Muniesa
According to the European Green Deal, excessive carbon emissions are the origin of global warming and must be drastically reduced. Given that the building sector is one of the major sources of carbon emissions, results imperative to limit these emissions...
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Adriana Salles, Maryam Salati and Luís Bragança
Sustainability assessment methods have gained the attention between urban planners and policymakers since they promote a comprehensive view of the cities. Intelligent solutions, enabled by advances in information technologies, can accelerate progress in ...
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Fernanda Schmitd Villaschi, José Pedro Carvalho and Luís Bragança
Urban planning is a valuable tool for growth control and city development, both to maintain the local urban identity and provide life quality for inhabitants. To regulate it, local governments have defined standards for a proper city?s growth through mun...
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Maryam Salati, Luis Bragança and Ricardo Mateus
The concept and practice of sustainability in urban planning have gained worldwide significance since the early 2000s and have become increasingly mainstream in the policymaking process. Adopting global frameworks, such as the United Nations Sustainable ...
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Rand Askar, Luís Bragança and Helena Gervásio
A growing interest has been expressed in the issue of building adaptability over the past decade, perceiving it as an intrinsic criterion for sustainability. In light of the circular economy (CE) and its application in the construction sector, more atten...
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Kamel Mohamed Rahla, Ricardo Mateus and Luís Bragança
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Kamel Mohamed Rahla, Ricardo Mateus and Luís Bragança
A growing concern is given to the environmental impacts caused by the construction industry. Waste generation, resource consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions are the main drawbacks of the rapid urbanization that the world is witnessing. As a response...
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José Pedro Carvalho, Manuela Almeida, Luís Bragança and Ricardo Mateus
Buildings are responsible for several negative impacts on the environment, most of them related to nonrenewable energy consumption, increasing the concern regarding buildings energy efficiency. In this context, computer software has been used to estimate...
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Tatiana Santos Saraiva, Manuela de Almeida and Luís Bragança
The methodology proposed in this article, SAHSBPT methodology, should be applied specifically in Portuguese high school buildings, seeking to improve, verify and certify sustainability in these buildings, related to social, environmental and economic asp...
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Nisreen Ardda, Ricardo Mateus and Luís Bragança
The priorities in the design of more sustainable buildings are quite dependent on the specific social context. In developing countries, the sustainability concept and priorities in the residential buildings sector are quite different from the ones of the...
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Nisreen Ardda, Ricardo Mateus and Luís Bragança
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Carlos Oliveira Augusto, Luís Bragança, Manuela Almeida
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La utilización de materiales de aislamiento térmico para la obtención de edificios energéticamente y conscientes tiene como objetivo, en general, la satisfacción de las necesidades de calefacción y refrigeración de la fase operativa. El objetivo principa...
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Maria de Fátima Castro, Ricardo Mateus, Luís Bragança
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El proyecto de un ambiente hospitalario requiere una serie de preocupaciones por la satisfacción y el bienestar del equipo de trabajo, pacientes y administradores, a la vez que posee una fuerte responsabilidad social e impacto en la ciudad. Actualmente, ...
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Carlos Oliveira Augusto, Luís Bragança, Manuela Almeida
Pág. 30 - 39
La utilización de materiales de aislamiento térmico para la obtención de edificios energéticamente y conscientes tiene como objetivo, en general, la satisfacción de las necesidades de calefacción y refrigeración de la fase operativa. El objetivo principa...
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Maria de Fátima Castro, Ricardo Mateus, Luís Bragança
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El proyecto de un ambiente hospitalario requiere una serie de preocupaciones por la satisfacción y el bienestar del equipo de trabajo, pacientes y administradores, a la vez que posee una fuerte responsabilidad social e impacto en la ciudad. Actualmente, ...
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Jorge Fernandes, Carlos Pimenta, Ricardo Mateus, Sandra Monteiro Silva and Luís Bragança
Solar passive strategies that have been developed in vernacular architecture from different regions are a response to specific climate effects. These strategies are usually simple, low-tech and have low potential environmental impact. For this reason, se...
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Jorge Fernandes, Carlos Pimenta, Ricardo Mateus, Sandra Monteiro Silva and Luís Bragança
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Luís Bragança, Ricardo Mateus and Heli Koukkari
Although social, economic, and cultural indicators are of substantial importance to the concept of sustainable building, this concept is usually related to environmental characteristics. Any building level assessment method is complex and involves contra...
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