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Selection of key sustainable indicators to steel buildings in early design phases
Andrade, Joana B.; Vieira, Susana Andreia Machado; Bragança, L.The construction industry attempts to produce buildings with the least possible environmental impact. However, construction activities still greatly impacting the environment; therefore, it is necessary to consider a sustainable project approach, based on its performance. Sustainability is an important issue to consider in design, due to environmental concerns and economic and social issues, promoting the archi...
Sustainability assessment and standardisation : steel buildings
Andrade, Joana B.; Bragança, L.This paper aims at evaluating in what extent are the existing sustainability assessment methodologies capable of truly reward the benefits of steel-intensive buildings in comparison with other building construction solutions. This evaluation consists in describing the more common sustainability assessment methodologies from the steel construction point of view and in comparing existing assessments to steel buil...
Analysis of the impacts of economic and social indicators to sustainability ass...
Andrade, Joana B.; Bragança, L.Literature review shows that there is no standard method to assess buildings’ sustainability neither to identify which items/indicators should be assess. Literature also reveals that early phases of a building project are essential to assure the buildings’ sustainability. As so, a research project has been established aiming at improving early design stages of a building project by providing concepts and method...
Visão estratégica para a eco-eficiência das empresas de construção civil : Eco-...
Veríssimo, Miguel; Rodrigues, Daniel Souto; Andrade, Joana B.; Bragança, L.O Sector da Construção Civil é transversal. Está por isso sob pressão política e económica, para ajustar os seus ciclos de vida às exigências de eficiência da “Sociedade de Baixa Intensidade em Carbono” agindo como mediadora nas cadeias de valor. Executado para a Mota-Engil Engenharia e Construção (MEEC), o VEEME ECORoad map surgiu com três objectivos claros: 1 - reconhecer os eixos culturais, científico-tecnol...
Assessment of solar XXI building sustainability by SBToolPT methodology
Andrade, Joana B.; Bragança, L.; Oliveira, ArmandoIn this paper that focus on the building sector, it’s presented the evaluation of the sustainable performance of an office building in Lisbon – Solar XXI. This analysis was performed using the SBTool PT methodology, which is a methodology initially developed by (Mateus and Bragança 2006) at Minho’s University, for application in residential buildings. This study confirmed not only the high performance of Solar ...
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