Sustainability and functional assessment of a mixed building technology solution

Most of the new construction solutions arise from the feeling that something should be done in order to answer current society concerns: reduction of energy consumption, minimization of pollution, etc. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the potentialities of a MBT – “Mixed Building Technology” sol...

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Autor principal: Bragança, L. (author)
Outros Autores: Almeida, Manuela Guedes de (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2004
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/5549
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/5549
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Resumo:Most of the new construction solutions arise from the feeling that something should be done in order to answer current society concerns: reduction of energy consumption, minimization of pollution, etc. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the potentialities of a MBT – “Mixed Building Technology” solution. This solution was evaluated under the thermal, acoustic and natural lightning performance, and economical/environmental analysis.