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Investigating smart materials to improve building thermal conditioning systems

Climate change and the advent of smart materials, such as phase change materials (PCM) and shape memory materials (SMM), are the factors that led to the proposal of an investigation into the improvement of environmental conditioning systems. The objective of the study is to verify how to incorporate...
Technologies for adaptation of buildings to climate changes: energy efficiency, photovoltaic generation and reduction of emissions in schools

This project proposes investigating building technologies to reduce energy consumption considering climate changes and includes two aspects. In the first one, the reduction of CO2 emissions is achieved by saving electricity and contributing to the insertion of photovoltaic distributed generation, reducing...
Feasibility analysis of photovoltaic energy in Brazil after ANEEL Resolution 482 for distributed energy generation in 2012

Cooperation agreement among UFV, through the departments of Architecture and Agricultural Engineering and the utility Cemig-D and PUC-Minas, for the development of processes and methods to evaluate externalities after ANEEL Resolutions 482 of 2012 and 685 of 2015. In Latecae, it comprises the photovoltaic...
Technologies and bioclimatic techniques applied to building energy performance

Composed of the projects: Foundations to implement energy certifications in Latin America Contribution to the Bioclimatic Zoning for naturally conditioned high-rise residential buildings Treatment and compilation of weather files for building energy performance simulation
Building design development with support of optimization methods

It comprises the projects related to optimization and building performance, as well as design methods that deal with problems regarding several stages of design. It involves simulation interoperability issues of visual programming and performance tools, such as Grasshopper, DIVA, HoneyBee e LadyBug. Previous...
Innovation in design of solar protection devices to educational buildings: development of a product regarding environmental perception and performance evaluation

This projetc aims to inovate and evaluate the use of solar protections during its development as an architectural product in educational environments
Development of a simplifed method of labeling the energy efficiency levels of existing buildings

To develop a simplified assessment of the energy efficiency level for existing buildings in the residential and the comercial, public and services sectors, based on the Brazilian Labeling Program
Digital modeling of architectural design based on the energy and structure performances

It aims to evaluate the design method of generative modeling focusing on the energy and structure performances
Mobile devices for the integration of comfort and architectural designs

The project aims to investigate how the mobile digital technology may contribute to the assessment of architectural designs regarding to the integration og the subjects of acoustics, daylighting and thermal comfort in the design process.