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Maria Teresa Ferreira, Eliana Soldado, Giovanni Borsoi, Maria Paula Mendes and Inês Flores-Colen
Over the past two decades, the application of nanostructured materials in construction, such as concrete, paint, coatings, glass, renders, plasters, thermal insulation, steel, and even sensors, has become increasingly prevalent. However, previous studies...
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Poliana Bellei, Isabel Torres, Runar Solstad and Inês Flores-Colen
The oyster shell is a residue rich in calcium carbonate, which can be reused as a raw material for creating building materials. For this reason, many researchers focused on the incorporation of oyster shell in the composition of composites, as it is a me...
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Rodrigo Pedral Sampaio, António Aguiar Costa and Inês Flores-Colen
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Cláudia Ferreira, Joana Barrelas, Ana Silva, Jorge de Brito, Ilídio S. Dias and Inês Flores-Colen
Façades, as the most external building envelope component, are subject to different ex-ternal environmental loads, such as: Temperature, precipitation, damp, and wind. Therefore, the contribution of environmental actions to the occurrence of defects in f...
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Ilídio S. Dias, Inês Flores-Colen and Ana Silva
The diagnosis of the building?s façades pathology is extremely important to support rational and technically informed decisions regarding maintenance and rehabilitation actions. With a reliable diagnosis, the probable causes of the anomalies can be corre...
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Renata Roncon, Giovanni Borsoi, João L. Parracha, Inês Flores-Colen, Rosário Veiga and Lina Nunes
External Thermal Insulation Composite Systems (ETICS) are constructive solutions widely used to increase the thermal insulation in new and retrofitted buildings. However, these systems can present several anomalies due to their constant exposure to weath...
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Clara Pereira, Ana Silva, Cláudia Ferreira, Jorge de Brito, Inês Flores-Colen and José D. Silvestre
In the field of building inspection and diagnosis, uncertainty is common and surveyors are aware of it, although it is not easily measured. This research proposes a model to quantify uncertainty based on the inspection of rendered façades. A Bayesian net...
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Tiago Trigo, Inês Flores-Colen, Luís Silva, Nuno Vieira, Ana Raimundo and Giovanni Borsoi
The production of Portland cement (OP) is commonly associated to significant level of energy consumption and gas emissions. The use of calcium sulfoaluminate cement (CSA) can be a sustainable alternative binder, since its production releases about half o...
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Teresa Pestana, Inês Flores-Colen, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro and Seyed Masoud Sajjadian
A holistic understanding of the correlations between supply and demand in buildings forms the basis for their performance assessment. This paper aims to reinterpret a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that influence users? satisfaction from differ...
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Cláudia Ferreira, Ana Silva, Jorge de Brito, Ilídio S. Dias and Inês Flores-Colen
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