Research areas
- Sustainable energetic and constructive rehabilitation
- In-situ monitoring and simulation of energy consumption, comfort, indoor air quality of residential and service buildings
- Development of sustainable green-roofs (building scale and urban effect)
- Hygroscopic inertia as a passive way to control the interior relative humidity fluctuation
- Innovative smart masonry and façades system (modelling and testing)
- Improvement of the productivity and efficiency of the building industry, mainly through building information systems and innovative procurement methods
- Development of BIM and VR models and software tools
- Building use, maintenance and facility management, oriented to active ageing
Knowledge transfer and industry support services
- Development of nZEB technologies
- Advanced in-situ characterisation of building envelopes with the combination of infrared thermography, airtightness tests and 3D scanning
- Thermal characterisation of building elements using thermography
- Green Roof Performance Evaluation
- Performance Evaluation of Thermal Mortars
- New methodologies for rising damp treatment
- Integrated experimental/numerical evaluation of materials and components of buildings
- Development of high-performance masonry systems
- Development of models and information management systems in the Building industry
- Linking BIM methodologies to sustainability and virtual models
- Acoustics - Test and Development of building solutions, Noise Maps
- Building Maintenance - Assessment, Diagnosis and Maintenance Manuals
Team
Researchers of two groups of CONSTRUCT: LFC, GEQUALTEC
Coordinator
Prof. Nuno Ramos (nmmr@fe.up.pt)
Prof. Rui Calejo (calejo@fe.up.pt)