Class Construction Quality and Sustainability

Understanding the concept of sustainability and its social, environmental and economic dimensions.

Knowing the international and national environmental certification systems.

Know methodologies and programs for calculating energy consumption in buildings.

Apply methodologies to optimize the life cycle cost of buildings from the economic perspective of sustainability.

Know and apply the concepts of quality in demonstrating the quality of a construction work.

Learn the meaning of quality marks and, in particular, CE marking for construction products.

Sustainability

1. Concept of Sustainability in Construction.
2. Environmental Certification Systems in construction.
3. Calculation of energy consumption in buildings (environmental perspective).
4. Optimization of life cycle costs in buildings (economic perspective).

Quality

1. Concept of Quality and Quality Management. Concept evolution. Deming cycle.
2. Quality assurance and demonstration of a construction work: methodology.
3. Certification in construction. Certification types, value.
4. Functional requirements in construction.

Active teaching methodology places the student at the centre of the learning process. Students will carry out visits to survey a real case for the development of practical work, where they will have the opportunity to understand the methodology of work to carry out the sustainability analysis for a real case. In the practical work, the students will perform three reports and will make an oral presentation in class, where they must critically analyze the passive measures of thermal improvement to be applied, taking into account the life cycle costs.

• Antunes, V. Apontamentos de Qualidade e Sustentabilidade na Construção, Lisboa: Universidade Lusófona.
• Brandão de Vasconcelos, Ana - Construção Energeticamente Sustentável - Metodologia de apoio à decisão em intervenções de reabilitação de edifícios. Teses e programas de investigação LNEC,Lisboa, 2016. ISBN 978-49-2284-3