Luisa Dias Pereira

• PhD in Sustainable Energy Systems
• Postdoctoral Researcher at ISQ

Given the Portuguese national programme for rehabilitation of school buildings and the new regulations for thermal comfort and air quality in Portugal, whose demands contribute to increase energy costs, it became relevant to study a case before any refurbishment intervention, in order to assess the potential of different methods of actions and to i...

The indoor climate quality in classrooms at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, was investigated as part of the 3SqAir project, supported by the Interreg SUDOE program. This research focused on two equipped classrooms with different ventilation systems: natural and mechanical ventilation. Both classrooms were continuously monitored for IEQ paramet...

This paper follows a bibliometric assessment methodology to provide a systematic review of studies devoted to cultural heritage (CH) buildings that simultaneously refer to hygrothermal conditions and/or behavior and climate change (CC) scenarios. Moreover, this paper aims at identifying the main research trend and research gaps in this combined res...

The good conservation of cultural patrimony depends on the quality of the indoor environment where collections and artifacts are kept, being suspended particles one of the key parameters. Among the various methods to study indoor pollution, portable optical counters appear as effective instruments to measure indoor pollution due to their specificat...

Oral presentation: "3SqAir - Sustainable Smart Strategy for Air Quality Assurance in Classrooms. - PREMISES AND DEVELOPMENTS" at the "3SqAir Workshop” held at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra, 8-9 November 2022.

In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic (officially declared by the WHO on March 11th, 2020), indoor air quality (IAQ) has resurged as a renewed paradigm, demanding enhanced attention, especially in spaces with high occupancy density, as is the case of school buildings. To minimize the risk of contamination indoors, it is needed to assure low conce...

Oral presentation: "How to improve your research skills? - From Scopus to VOSviewer" at the "Seminar - Renewable Energy Systems” (Energy for Sustainability Initiative, University of Coimbra, 2021-2022), 4 March 2022".

This paper presents the newly developed study, methodology and assessment of the hygrothermal performance of a historic building wall retrofitted with three different internal insulation technologies, without a vapour barrier. It aims at assessing any possible condensation problems at the most critical point of the tested stratigraphy (namely, in b...

Video presentation of the paper "EC2U: A EDUCAÇÃO PARA A SUSTENTABILIDADE COMO RESPOSTA AO OBJETIVO 11 DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL – CIDADES E COMUNIDADES SUSTENTÁVEIS" at the "3.ª Conferência Campus Sustentável (CCS2021) - October 28th 2021". Producer: Ana Rita Amaral. Presenter: Ana Rita Amaral.

The growing complexity of the construction process, pressured by challenges related to safety, climate change and the reduction of energy consumption, requires the ability to manage more and more skills previously allocated exclusively to other specialists. It is therefore necessary to establish a dialogue based on advanced collaborative designs, w...

Glazed systems in buildings can account for a significant part of overall energy consumption. The unfavorable relationship between energy savings and the increased cost of energy-efficient windows is often the main drawback cited by customers to justify its non-acquisition. of glazed windows. This study addresses the relationship between the invest...

The adaptation of spaces to different usage typologies can be complex in heritage buildings. Facilities were initially planned for a specific type of use that, when changed, require additional measures to ensure a suitable indoor environment. Passive strategies—e.g., free cooling—are commonly used as an alternative without requiring equipment insta...

In higher-education world heritage sites, the conservation and energy retrofitting of heritage buildings (HBs) is an important vector for their development, competitiveness and welfare. To guarantee their ongoing use, these buildings must be adapted to face current and emerging societal challenges: (i) the conservation of cultural heritage and the...

The HeLLo project PRESENTATION at "CCS2020- 2ª Conferência Campus Sustentável (2nd SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS CONFERENCE), SPB3 - Virtual (Tomar, 2020) (http://www.ccs2020.ipt.pt/)

Title: "Book of Abstracts – 2nd Sustainable Campus Conference (CCS2020)". ISBN: 978‐989‐8840‐49‐3 Event: "The 2nd SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS CONFERENCE (CCS2020): SMART INITIATIVES FOR A SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS", VIRTUAL event (Tomar, Portugal), on October 30th 2020. «DO ESTUDO DA EFICIêNCIA ENERGÉTICA DO PATRIMÓNIO UNIVERSITÁRIO FERRARESE À EXPERIÊNCIA DE LI...

The HeLLo project POSTER at "HeLLo_Technical worktable #2_2020". This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 796712.

The HeLLo project POSTER at "HeLLo project final WEBCONFERENCE" (online, 2020). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 796712.

This record contains raw data of a 3-month monitoring period of the HeLLo project. The datafiles titled MeasLog_YYYY-MM-DD.dat correspond to the raw data used for the data analysis presented in “Hygrothermal analysis at critical points of an internally insulated historic wall without vapour barrier: in situ measurements and dynamic simulation”, su...

The hygrothermal behaviour of an internally insulated historic wall is still hard to predict, mainly because the physical characteristics of the materials composing the historic wall are unknown. In this study, the hygrothermal assessment of an internally thermal insulated masonry wall of an historic palace located in Ferrara, in Italy, is shown. I...

The HeLLo project POSTER at "REACH final conference - Digital gallery" (Pisa, 2020) (https://www.reach-culture.eu/events/pisa-final-conference/posters-and-videos-pisa/digital-gallery-pisa-poster-abstracts)

It is important that academic research comes out into the open and communicates more and more with the outside world. Greater dissemination actions are increasingly urged by the European Union guidelines and university governance policies. This also in terms of the so-called "third mission", which joins the traditional purposes of teaching and rese...

The main purpose of the HeLLo project is to contribute to data available on the literature on the real hygrothermal behavior of historic walls and the suitability of insulation technologies. Furthermore, it also aims at minimizing the energy simulation errors at the design phase and at improving their conservation features. In this framework, one o...

In the context of functional and performance rehabilitation of existing heritage, internal envelope thermal insulation is often an inevitable option towards improvement of historic buildings' energy efficiency. Nonetheless, besides leading to the loss of useful floor area, this option may also lead to changes on the original hygrothermal behavior o...

Presentation of the HeLLo project at the "Networking event ‘Environments: Survey Design and Performance’", Lisbon School of Architecture (Lisbon, Portugal), on November 27th 2019.

The HeLLo project POSTER at "I SISTEMI PER L’ISOLAMENTO DALL’INTERNO NELL’ARCHITETTURA STORICA MONUMENTALE: CRITICITÀ, SOLUZIONI E L’ONSITE LAB TOUR DEL PROGETTO HeLLo" (Ferrara, 2019)

Official FLYER of the HeLLo project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 796712.

Built heritage represents a significant part of tangible Cultural Heritage (CH). One important way of preserving this CH for the future is to keep it into use, and more importantly in a sustainable use. The MSCA-IF project entitled HeLLo – Heritage energy Living Lab onsite is grounded in the field of energy refurbishment of heritage buildings. In o...

The HeLLo project PRESENTATION at "EfS2019- 4th Energy for Sustainability International Conference - Designing a Sustainable Future, Session Built Environment III (Turin, 2019) (https://www.efs2019.uc.pt/)

The HeLLo project POSTER at "HeLLo_Technical worktable #1_2019" This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 796712.

This article aims to properly assess the hygrothermal properties of walls located in historic buildings, this study discloses the development of a remote sensing technology compatible with an in-situ measurement implemented in Palazzo Tassoni (Italy). As required by the international recommendations adapted to cultural heritage (CH), this monitorin...

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and energy conservation in schools are complex challenges. A significant part of the energy demand in these buildings addresses ventilation and temperature indoors. When confronted with money/energy constraints, the tendency of school boards is to cut on IEQ requirements, compromising the comfort of the occupants...

The correct preservation of old and rare books in libraries needs suitable values of temperature and relative humidity. This paper shows the hygrothermal data acquired in a historic library, the Baroque Library, of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where several old and rare books are stored. The data were acquired during a 6-month monitoring ca...

The study presents a new procedure for identifying possible risks for books kept in historic libraries. It is addressed to all those historic libraries where large collections of old and rare books are stored and preserved. These libraries were rarely used by people, but, nowadays, many of them have become touristic attractions. Consequently, their...

This paper presents the analysis of the hygrothermal conditions of a museum space hosted in an 18th century building, in Coimbra (Portugal). This historical building, which houses the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, is located in the historic centre of the University of Coimbra, officially declared a World Heritage Site in 2013 by UNES...

It is recognized worldwide that indoor air quality (IAQ) conditions in museums influence the preservation of the exhibited items. Recently, international guidelines towards environmental management in the field of conservation have been revised, leading to a different perspective on ‘ideal/fixed’ hygrothermal air conditions, namely EN 15757:2010. H...

This paper presents the preliminary results of the study of the indoor environmental conditions (IEC) in a small baroque Portuguese church, located in a XVIII century Seminary (which lost its initial function in 2012). In 2013, the historic centre of Coimbra was officially declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage and the city has become part of an im...

In 2013, the historic centre of the city of Coimbra, including the University, was officially declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. Since then, the city become part of an important tourist circuit. The baroque library of the University of Coimbra is one the main attractions. Almost at the same time, in 2012, the catholic Seminary located in...

This paper presents the preliminary results of the study of the indoor environmental conditions in a Baroque building of a XVIII century library, located in the heights of the historic centre of the University of Coimbra (UC), which was established 727 years ago. Since these conditions play a very important role in the conservation of the books and...

Nowadays, debates addressing climate change, fossil fuels depletion and energy security highlight the need for a more sustainable built environment in order to reduce energy consumption and emission trends in the buildings sector. Meeting these targets is a challenge that calls for innovative research to improve the use of renewable energy sources,...

This paper presents the preliminary results of the study of the hygrothermal air conditions of the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra (UC), a XVI-XVIII century building. It is located in the historic centre of the UC, officially declared as a World Heritage in 2013 by UNESCO. Since then, the museum has been receiving an increasing number o...

This paper presents the preliminary results of the study of the indoor environmental conditions in a Baroque building of a XVIII century library, located in the heights of the historic centre of the University of Coimbra (UC), which was established 727 years ago. In 2013, Unesco officially declared the historic centre of the UC as a World Heritage...

A project for the creation and implementation of a distance-learning course on Indoor Environmental Comfort in Buildings (IECB) is presented. This course resulted from a request by Ordem dos Engenheiros (Portuguese engineering professional body) to the University of Coimbra. It was based on the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) course of the Maste...

This paper presents a multi-layer perceptron model for the estimation of classrooms number of occupants from sensed indoor environmental data-relative humidity, air temperature, and carbon dioxide concentration. The modelling datasets were collected from two classrooms in the Secondary School of Pombal, Portugal. The number of occupants and occupat...

In the present case study – an airport located at the southern region of Portugal with an increasing number of passengers (more than 5.7 million passengers) - a web-based monitoring system was installed, collecting, displaying and registering the information generated by a wireless network of sensors. The monitoring of indoor environmental quality...

In this paper some of the recent developments and ongoing work at the Energy, Environment and Comfort research group of ADAI (Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics), in the areas of Indoor Environmental Quality and Energy Efficiency in Buildings are presented. Summarily, it is showcased a state of the art of the Indoor Live Lab...

Ph.D thesis discussion | Luísa Maria Dias Pereira http://www.uc.pt/efs/destaques/2016/phd_lmdp

Apresenta-se o projeto de criação e implementação de um curso de ensino à distância sobre Conforto Ambiental Interior em Edifícios (CAIE) Este curso surgiu na sequência de uma solicitação da Ordem dos Engenheiros de Portugal à Universidade de Coimbra. Teve como base uma disciplina sobre Qualidade Ambiental Interior do curso de Mestrado em Engenhari...

Purpose – This paper aims to propose an energy efficiency plan (with technical and behavioural improvement measures) for a Portuguese higher education building – the Teaching Building of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC). Design/methodology/approach – The study was developed in the context of both the “Green Campus – Cha...

This work was developed in the context of the research project Energy Efficient Schools (Escolas Energeticamente Eficientes, 3Es). Within this project an integrated approach for energy performance and indoor environmental quality assessment in school buildings has been developed aiming at contributing to reduce the energy consumption in school buil...

The results of a field study about indoor thermal comfort on two of the involved schools of the 3Es project are presented. The thermal comfort and indoor air quality assessment was conducted by physical parameters monitoring and survey questionnaires. The subjective assessment shows that the students found temperature range beyond the comfort zone...

The authors present a summary of recent developments and ongoing work at ADAI's Energy, Environment and Comfort research group, in the areas of Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Indoor Environmental Quality.

Among all public buildings, on account of their educational purpose, school buildings have a major social responsibility. Therefore energy performance in this type of building is of great importance. The overall purpose of this research is to achieve a functional benchmarking, based on the real operation conditions of school buildings, by the expl...

The impact of ventilation requirements on energy consumption for mechanically ventilated educational buildings are investigated in this study, considering the energy simulation of two existing school buildings located in different climate zones of Portugal. The schools HVAC systems have been designed in accordance with the national legislation impl...

Given the current national school rehabilitation program and new regulations on thermal comfort and air quality in Portugal, whose requirements contribute to an increase in energy costs, it becomes relevant a non-intervention case-study, potential of different methods of action and improvement in the obtained results. Included in the area of ener...

In 2002, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2002/91/EC) introduced the mandatory energy certification of buildings in the EU from 2006. Within this context all the Member States (MS) proposed different Energy Performance Certificates exhibiting different information at distinct scales. A similar process took place in the US and in Canad...

This work was developed in the context of the "Green Campus - Challenge for Energy Efficiency in Higher Education" competition. The main goal was to evaluate and propose an energy efficiency (EE) plan, including technical and behavioral measures, for a university building – the Teaching Building (TB) of the Faculty of Economics of the University of...

A major rehabilitation and refurbishment program of secondary school buildings has been carried out in the last few years in Portugal, led by the state-owned company Parque Escolar E.P.E. (PE). This paper reports the research being carried out in the framework of an R&D project aimed at comprehensively assessing these interventions in terms of the...

(in Portuguese) A redução dos consumos de energia nos edifícios públicos passa não só por edifícios e sistemas mais eficientes, smart buildings e smart control, mas também por smart people, isto é, utilizadores informados e empenhados em contribuir para a eficiência energética dos edifícios e para a redução dos consumos. Com este estudo pretendeu-...