Social housing represents a part of the whole building stock with a high risk of energy poverty, and it should be treated as a priority in renovation strategies, due to its potential for improvement and the need to fight that …
Historic centres are special parts of the urban fabric that must be kept alive, to avoid depopulation and gentrification. The energy renovation of its buildings is key to achieve a balance between the conservation of built heritage and the sustainability …
An existing ruin of a vernacular house located in a rural area of Portugal is being renovated, aiming for architectural identity preservation and low environmental impact, to offer suitable comfort conditions for tourism exploitation. Calculated global energy consumption reduction is …
This study aims to examine how the original construction systems implemented in a modern movement apartment building affect its winter thermal comfort. The importance of analyzing the avant-garde and distinctive buildings of this period is linked to the need to …
To reach European climate neutrality by 2050, the strategic importance of retrofitting the existing building stock is clear. For this scope, thermal rendering systems have emerged as a very feasible solution for historic and traditionally constructed walls. Nonetheless, a definitive …
Current buildings are responsible for the highest energy consumption, exceeding polluting sectors such as industry and transports. In Portugal, a large part of the building stock was built in the 1970s and 1980s, but buildings dated from the 1960s and …