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Prof. Manuel Duarte Pinheiro
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

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Associate professor with habilitation (PhD in Environmental Engineering). Researcher of CERIS - Civil Engineering Research and Innovations for Sustainability, Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). His research focuses on environmental management and sustainable performance applied to buildings, urban areas, and tourism. He supervised more than 100 theses (PhD and MSc), published more than 40 research articles indexed in international journals, 5 books, and 11 book chapters. He is responsible for the LiderA, the Portuguese acronym of Leverage for the environment in search of sustainable construction.

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Journal article
Published: 28 May 2021 in Sustainability
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The Algarve region, located in the south of Portugal, is a well-known tourism destination that seeks to be sustainable and competitive. The local administration looks to establish a collaborative network, where stakeholders take a crucial role. The research aims to appeal to the accommodations and food services stakeholders to have a shared vision of the issues and priorities related to sustainable tourism development. Their perception is a critical factor in making decisions regarding the region’s competitiveness. Algarve’s two major and leading associations of the tourism supply sector AIHSA and AHETA were invited to participate in the study. Based on the responses of an online questionnaire, an artificial intelligence algorithm was applied to the data to identify the common and divergent aspects. The conceptual model developed is based on a simplified model of psychological ownership. The results highlight a convergent perspective regarding sustainability challenges, namely, natural resources and biodiversity, safety, and supply chain. However, hotels and restaurants do not reflect the same perception regarding sustainability initiatives, e-tourism, or free internet access. These divergences are essential results since they indicated which issues require local authorities’ priority intervention.

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Fátima Farinha; David Bienvenido-Huertas; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Elisa Silva; Rui Lança; Miguel José Oliveira; Ricardo Batista. Sustainable Competitiveness of Tourism in the Algarve Region. Critical Stakeholders’ Perception of the Supply Sector. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6072 .

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Fátima Farinha, David Bienvenido-Huertas, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, Elisa Silva, Rui Lança, Miguel José Oliveira, Ricardo Batista. Sustainable Competitiveness of Tourism in the Algarve Region. Critical Stakeholders’ Perception of the Supply Sector. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6072.

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Fátima Farinha; David Bienvenido-Huertas; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Elisa Silva; Rui Lança; Miguel José Oliveira; Ricardo Batista. 2021. "Sustainable Competitiveness of Tourism in the Algarve Region. Critical Stakeholders’ Perception of the Supply Sector." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6072.

Journal article
Published: 10 April 2021 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Previous studies demonstrated how urban sustainability assessment systems can support the decision-making process to enhance the sustainability performance of an existing urban area. Nevertheless, although these systems were conceived to evaluate environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability, the economic dimension is still underrepresented, particularly in terms of alternative project solutions’ economic feasibility. Therefore, this paper used a neighborhood redevelopment project in Lisbon (Portugal) to propose the economic evaluation of alternative sustainable solutions from single buildings to fully integrated community strategies. For this purpose, it estimated and compared the net present value, the internal rate of return, and the payback time of three alternative renovation strategies: creation of green space areas for urban agriculture; installation of photovoltaic systems; and installation of water harvesting systems. The results showed that community strategies can maximize the economic benefits over time by taking advantage of scale economies and synergies between buildings. In addition, the paper highlighted the possible economic benefits of combining alternative renovation strategies. Finally, it discussed policy and regulatory considerations, providing recommendations for future versions of urban sustainability assessment systems.

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Joana Pedro; Anabela Reis; Carlos Silva; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. Evaluating the economic benefits of moving from a single building to a community approach for sustainable urban redevelopment: Lisbon neighborhood case study. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021, 304, 126810 .

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Joana Pedro, Anabela Reis, Carlos Silva, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. Evaluating the economic benefits of moving from a single building to a community approach for sustainable urban redevelopment: Lisbon neighborhood case study. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2021; 304 ():126810.

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Joana Pedro; Anabela Reis; Carlos Silva; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. 2021. "Evaluating the economic benefits of moving from a single building to a community approach for sustainable urban redevelopment: Lisbon neighborhood case study." Journal of Cleaner Production 304, no. : 126810.

Journal article
Published: 15 March 2021 in Infrastructures
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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 different perspectives. Fieldwork was carried out in an office building following a detailed review on KPIs by conducting user surveys. This study highlights the need to organize specific indicators to focus on the usability of workplaces and, where and when required, through an iterative process, understand the user perception of performance indicators in usage conditions. This methodology is applicable for organizations to understand the main existing in-service problems, and could improve the building’s performance over time. Survey results showed that hygiene was the most recognizable influence on users’ satisfaction and indoor air quality was the less well-known in the assessment results. User perception results can be compared to other office buildings results to benchmark good practices and should also be investigated for the post-COVID-19 period.

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Teresa Pestana; Inês Flores-Colen; Manuel Pinheiro; Seyed Sajjadian. User Perception on Key Performance Indicators in an In-Service Office Building. Infrastructures 2021, 6, 45 .

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Teresa Pestana, Inês Flores-Colen, Manuel Pinheiro, Seyed Sajjadian. User Perception on Key Performance Indicators in an In-Service Office Building. Infrastructures. 2021; 6 (3):45.

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Teresa Pestana; Inês Flores-Colen; Manuel Pinheiro; Seyed Sajjadian. 2021. "User Perception on Key Performance Indicators in an In-Service Office Building." Infrastructures 6, no. 3: 45.

Review
Published: 21 July 2020 in Sustainability
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The health system’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has involved research into diagnoses and vaccines, but primarily it has required specific treatments, facilities and equipment, together with the control of individual behaviour and a period of collective confinement. The aim of this particular research, therefore, is to discover whether COVID-19 is capable of changing the built environment (BE) and leveraging specific solutions for sustainable buildings or urban areas. Some historical reviews of infectious pandemics have highlighted the development of new solutions in the BE as an additional contribution towards preventing the spread of infection. The BE has an important role to play in supporting public health measures and reducing the risk of infections. The review of potential COVID-19 measures shows the existence of well-referenced solutions, ranging from incremental alterations (organisation of spaces, erection of physical barriers) to structural alterations (windows, balconies) with different timeframes and scales (ranging from changes in building materials to the design of urban areas). A critical exploratory assessment makes it possible to identify measures that may help not only to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission (or even prevent it), but also to increase resilience, improve air quality and lower energy requirements or the use of materials, and thus potentially increase the sustainability of the BE. COVID-19 measures challenge us to rethink buildings and urban areas and potentially leverage sustainable BE solutions with win-win outcomes (minimalist design and other solutions). The specific composition of this set of measures must, however, be further researched.

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Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Nuno Cardoso Luís. COVID-19 Could Leverage a Sustainable Built Environment. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5863 .

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Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, Nuno Cardoso Luís. COVID-19 Could Leverage a Sustainable Built Environment. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (14):5863.

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Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Nuno Cardoso Luís. 2020. "COVID-19 Could Leverage a Sustainable Built Environment." Sustainability 12, no. 14: 5863.

Journal article
Published: 14 April 2020 in Sustainability
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Integrating natural processes to build areas through the creation of green infrastructure (GI) in Africa with its rapid urbanisation is a challenge because of the information base. The aim of this paper is planning a GI linking biophysical, social, and legal contents in a specific Africa country with an approach that combines different scales and different levels of data and information. The paper proposes a framework beginning at the macro scale to integrate and operationalise the definition of GI in an African context, namely for the Luanda metropolitan area. The approach to nature and ecological structure (GI) has four phases: analysis, integration, diagnosis and proposal. All steps are developed in a GIS environment and consider variations in the biophysical, social, cultural, and legal dimensions. The research discusses the problems in collecting existing information and leads with missing data within the context of urbanisation growth and climate change adaptation. The proposed green infrastructure includes protected areas (existing and proposed), natural values, risk areas, rivers, and agricultural areas, to increase resilience and flexibility in an adaptation context. The results allow to include in the GI the mangrove areas, native flora, vegetated slopes, and riverbanks, providing a buffering function for natural hazards, crucial for these regions, with the aim to achieve the needs of creating a strategic GI to be implemented into the Luanda General Master Plan.

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Miguel Amado; Evelina Rodrigues; Francesca Poggi; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; António Ribeiro Amado; Helder José. Using Different Levels of Information in Planning Green Infrastructure in Luanda, Angola. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3162 .

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Miguel Amado, Evelina Rodrigues, Francesca Poggi, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, António Ribeiro Amado, Helder José. Using Different Levels of Information in Planning Green Infrastructure in Luanda, Angola. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3162.

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Miguel Amado; Evelina Rodrigues; Francesca Poggi; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; António Ribeiro Amado; Helder José. 2020. "Using Different Levels of Information in Planning Green Infrastructure in Luanda, Angola." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3162.

Original article
Published: 15 January 2020 in Energy Efficiency
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Retail stores are amongst the building typologies with the highest carbon (CI) and energy intensities (EI). However, previous studies have only explored best practice EI of food and non-food retailers, without identifying best practice CI threshold values. This paper presents a five-step analysis of CI and EI amongst the highest revenue retailers, benchmarking best and worst performing CI and EI retailers, analysing their nationality, performing a content analysis on their CSR reports and comparing results in terms of differentiation policies, strategies and building practices that can lead to increased environmental performance. Combined CI and EI best practice threshold values were found simultaneously under 346 kWh/m2/y and 115 kg CO2eq/m2/y for food retailers and under 146 kWh/m2/y and 70 kg CO2eq/m2/y for non-food retailers. In terms of policy, best-performing retailers shared a strong top-down management commitment towards sustainability across all business areas (p = 0.04) and an increased use of referential reporting standards, particularly of GRI standards (p = 0.05) and of the GHG protocol (p = 0.01). In terms of strategy, they established ambitious energy goals, such becoming 100% supplied by renewable energy (p = 0.05) or carbon neutral by 2020. As for building practice, LED and photovoltaic technology were the most popular high-performance solutions, but only the use of natural refrigerants (p = 0.001) and gas transfer to CO2 (p = 0.0007) were related to best-performing practice. The variability of CI and EI found in this study shows that it is already possible to reduce the retail sector’s contribution to global GHG emissions considerably. The proposed best practice CI and EI reference levels, linked to corporate policy, strategy and building practice, are useful new tools for retail energy-management, which can further promote sustainability in retail buildings, thus allowing a deeper understanding of how to decarbonize the retail building sector.

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Ana Ferreira; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Jorge de Brito; Ricardo Mateus. Relating carbon and energy intensity of best-performing retailers with policy, strategy and building practice. Energy Efficiency 2020, 13, 597 -619.

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Ana Ferreira, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, Jorge de Brito, Ricardo Mateus. Relating carbon and energy intensity of best-performing retailers with policy, strategy and building practice. Energy Efficiency. 2020; 13 (4):597-619.

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Ana Ferreira; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Jorge de Brito; Ricardo Mateus. 2020. "Relating carbon and energy intensity of best-performing retailers with policy, strategy and building practice." Energy Efficiency 13, no. 4: 597-619.

Journal article
Published: 27 December 2019 in Energies
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This paper presents an environmental, economic and energy (3E) assessment of an energy retrofitting of the external walls of a flat of an average building with the most current characteristics used in Portugal. For this intervention, a cork-based (as recycled lightweight aggregate) TIRM (Thermal Insulating Rendering Mortar) was considered. The declared unit was 1 m2 of an external wall for a 50-year study period and the energy and economic costs and savings, as well as the environmental impacts, were analytically modelled and compared for two main alternatives: the reference wall without any intervention and the energetically rehabilitated solution with the application of TIRM. Walls with improved energy performance (with TIRM) show lower economic and environmental impacts: reductions from 6% to 32% in carbon emissions, non-renewable energy consumption and costs during the use stage, which depends on the thickness and relative place where TIRM layers are applied. A worse energy performance is shown by reference walls (without TIRM) during the use stage (corresponding to energy used for heating and cooling), while the improved walls present economic and environmental impacts due to the application of TIRM (including the production, transport and application into the building) that do not exist in the reference walls. The comparison between reference walls and energy-retrofitted ones revealed that reference wall become be more expensive when more demanding operational energy requirements are analysed over a 50-year period, even if renewable materials are more expensive.

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José D. Silvestre; André M. P. Castelo; José J. B. C. Silva; Jorge M. C. L. De Brito; Manuel D. Pinheiro. Energy Retrofitting of a Buildings’ Envelope: Assessment of the Environmental, Economic and Energy (3E) Performance of a Cork-Based Thermal Insulating Rendering Mortar. Energies 2019, 13, 143 .

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José D. Silvestre, André M. P. Castelo, José J. B. C. Silva, Jorge M. C. L. De Brito, Manuel D. Pinheiro. Energy Retrofitting of a Buildings’ Envelope: Assessment of the Environmental, Economic and Energy (3E) Performance of a Cork-Based Thermal Insulating Rendering Mortar. Energies. 2019; 13 (1):143.

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José D. Silvestre; André M. P. Castelo; José J. B. C. Silva; Jorge M. C. L. De Brito; Manuel D. Pinheiro. 2019. "Energy Retrofitting of a Buildings’ Envelope: Assessment of the Environmental, Economic and Energy (3E) Performance of a Cork-Based Thermal Insulating Rendering Mortar." Energies 13, no. 1: 143.

Journal article
Published: 25 September 2019 in Energy Policy
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The retail industry is one of the top 10 most carbon-intensive sectors. This paper is original in addressing what has changed in corporate retail with the Paris Agreement, accessing trends to decarbonize the sector. A qualitative comparison was performed regarding the policy, strategy and energy-related building solutions of the top 27 global retailers, ranked according to their revenue, regarding the reporting periods of 2014–2015 and 2016–2017. For each retailer, data were searched on retailers’ sustainability reports was organized in different tables according to the variables policy, strategy and energy-related building practice. A comparison analysis was carried out, in order to identify differentiating decarbonizing measures. Corporate governance is increasingly relevant to manage climate change issues. Strategies to decarbonize the retail sector include establishing ambitious energy goals, invest in sustainability of supply chain with more efficient logistics and in greener retail operations, with buildings designed and managed under a life-cycle perspective (energy-efficiency, renewable energy and natural refrigerants). Retailers are progressively aligning their energy targets to those of the Paris Agreement and converging in business principles and reporting standards. With forthcoming regulation on GHG emissions, retailers could benefit from a business case on low-carbon opportunities and financial incentives to accelerate low-carbon transition investments.

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Ana Ferreira; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Jorge de Brito; Ricardo Mateus. Decarbonizing strategies of the retail sector following the Paris Agreement. Energy Policy 2019, 135, 110999 .

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Ana Ferreira, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, Jorge de Brito, Ricardo Mateus. Decarbonizing strategies of the retail sector following the Paris Agreement. Energy Policy. 2019; 135 ():110999.

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Ana Ferreira; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Jorge de Brito; Ricardo Mateus. 2019. "Decarbonizing strategies of the retail sector following the Paris Agreement." Energy Policy 135, no. : 110999.

Review
Published: 06 September 2019 in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
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Planning and managing the rapidly growing cities in a manner that delivers a balanced solution for their environmental, social and economic long-term development constitutes one of the grand challenges of societies. In the urban planning field, several sustainability assessment systems emerged to guide the planning process towards these goals. After two decades of existence, there is a need to further analyze the lessons learned from the application of these systems and discuss the pathways towards more sustainable societies. This paper provides a literature review of the most widely used urban sustainability assessment systems: BREEAM Communities, LEED Neighborhoods, CASBEE Urban Development, Green Star Communities, and DGNB Urban Districts. Here, we analyzed 124 publications on the topic published between 2015-2018, using the selected assessment systems as keywords. This study revealed that there is a need for context customization of global targets into local actionable measures; involvement of regulatory bodies to ensure the successful application of such systems; and, consideration of socioeconomic factors as the assessment is still very focused on the environmental impact. This study provides insights for practitioners and researchers on the existing systems to assess urban sustainability and pathways for future research.

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J Pedro; A Reis; M Duarte Pinheiro; C Silva. A systematic review of the international assessment systems for urban sustainability. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 2019, 323, 012076 .

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J Pedro, A Reis, M Duarte Pinheiro, C Silva. A systematic review of the international assessment systems for urban sustainability. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 2019; 323 (1):012076.

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J Pedro; A Reis; M Duarte Pinheiro; C Silva. 2019. "A systematic review of the international assessment systems for urban sustainability." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 323, no. 1: 012076.

Review
Published: 28 May 2019 in Journal of Environmental Management
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Over the last five decades, resilience has received ever greater interest from academics and practitioners and has been applied in different scientific areas, such as engineering, environmental science or medicine. In particular, resilience has become a fundamental concept in contemporary urban development, planning and management (UDPM). Despite the various reviews that have recently been made of this subject, an updated analysis of the concept is required so that commonly held views about resilience can be matched against empirical evidence while, at the same time, clarifying the use of its main formulations and connecting its embryonic development to its application in urban-centric research. This paper therefore reviews the concept of resilience (considering its primary formulations, its historical evolution and its conceptual underpinnings), establishing how it has been applied and developed in the UDPM context. Based on this review, this paper reiterates the idea of a three-dimensional framework for exploring the concept of resilience ([1] ‘engineering’ vs. [2] ‘ecological’ vs. [3] ‘evolutionary resilience’). The search for urban resilience can potentially adopt an integrative approach, assuming an evolutionary perspective that can be adapted to different situations and stakeholders, thus offering a better adjusted and more dynamic urban planning and management.

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Duarte Marques Nunes; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Ana Tomé. Does a review of urban resilience allow for the support of an evolutionary concept? Journal of Environmental Management 2019, 244, 422 -430.

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Duarte Marques Nunes, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, Ana Tomé. Does a review of urban resilience allow for the support of an evolutionary concept? Journal of Environmental Management. 2019; 244 ():422-430.

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Duarte Marques Nunes; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Ana Tomé. 2019. "Does a review of urban resilience allow for the support of an evolutionary concept?" Journal of Environmental Management 244, no. : 422-430.

Chapter
Published: 01 May 2019 in Bioclimatic Architecture in Warm Climates
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LiderA is a Sustainable Evaluation System that can be used to select and develop sustainable solutions in plans or projects applied to urban environments or buildings, allowing also certified the level of sustainability. Major challenges identified using the assessment of LiderA system orientation for Africa to achieve an environment sustainability in built environment are: to assure that sustainability approaches be applied not only in a building level but as urban zone, in order to assure that promotes bioclimatic solutions and common energy system namely renewable; Also assure a good water cycle, from supply to local treatment and reuse linking building and urban zones; To promote the use of local materials (without achieve a critical level of the stocks) and solutions that interpret local techniques that could be low tech or not, but have a good balance in life cycle costs; Make a contributions to socio economic dynamics; Different locals and regions must adjust solutions to climatic and local conditions.

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Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. Built Environment Assessment Systems in Africa: Challenges to Assure Environmental Sustainability. Bioclimatic Architecture in Warm Climates 2019, 445 -465.

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Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. Built Environment Assessment Systems in Africa: Challenges to Assure Environmental Sustainability. Bioclimatic Architecture in Warm Climates. 2019; ():445-465.

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Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. 2019. "Built Environment Assessment Systems in Africa: Challenges to Assure Environmental Sustainability." Bioclimatic Architecture in Warm Climates , no. : 445-465.

Journal article
Published: 22 April 2019 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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In schools, light use has been consistently highlighted as a crucial factor in the performance of school buildings; the visual comfort is connected with the students' performance and artificial light is a main source of energy consumption in the case of moderate climates. Resulting from a year-long post observational study conducted at schools, this article explains the current situation regarding light-use management in Portuguese secondary school buildings, from the point of view of their facilities, user behaviour and its impacts on energy use patterns. Both natural and artificial light-use patterns are considered. Although the classroom is still the functional space where students and teachers spend most of their time, new educational paradigms also require attention to be paid to other functional spaces where informal learning takes place. The study expands knowledge about light use and management in school buildings, by linking energy use patterns to user behaviour and addressing several functional areas within the school's premises. Results showed that various factors and criteria influence behaviour patterns in different functional spaces. The main trigger factors identified in the case of user behaviour in schools were classified and grouped according to their motivational grounds. Besides users' visual comfort parameters and functional needs, light use in schools is also strongly influenced by organisational habits. The study led to the development of more environmentally sustainable design and management strategies in school buildings. Light metering revealed that favourable conditions exist for making natural light the main light source at schools. Results also showed that improvements in the design and management of circulation areas could lead to significant reductions in artificial light (and energy) use.

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Patricia Lourenço; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Teresa Heitor. Light use patterns in Portuguese school buildings: User comfort perception, behaviour and impacts on energy consumption. Journal of Cleaner Production 2019, 228, 990 -1010.

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Patricia Lourenço, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, Teresa Heitor. Light use patterns in Portuguese school buildings: User comfort perception, behaviour and impacts on energy consumption. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2019; 228 ():990-1010.

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Patricia Lourenço; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Teresa Heitor. 2019. "Light use patterns in Portuguese school buildings: User comfort perception, behaviour and impacts on energy consumption." Journal of Cleaner Production 228, no. : 990-1010.

Journal article
Published: 27 March 2019 in Applied Sciences
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This paper analyses the environmental, energy, and economic performances of the External Thermal Insulation Composite System (ETICS) using agglomerated insulation cork board (ICB) or expanded polystyrene (EPS) as insulation material applied in the energetic renovation of the building envelope during a 50-year study period. A comparison between ETICS using ICB and EPS, for the same time horizon, is also presented. The environmental balance is based on “Cradle to Cradle” (C2C) Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), focusing on the carbon footprint and consumption of nonrenewable primary energy (PE-NRe). The characteristics of these products in terms of thermal insulation, the increased energy performance provided by their installation for retrofit of the buildings’ envelope, and the resulting energy savings are considered in the energy balance. The estimation of the C2C carbon and PE-NRe saved is considered in the final balance between the energy and environmental performances. ETICS with ICB is environmentally advantageous both in terms of carbon footprint and of PE-NRe. In fact, the production stage of ICB is less polluting, while EPS requires lower energy consumption to fulfil the heating and cooling needs of a flat, due to its lower U-Value, and its lower acquisition cost results in a lower C2C cost. Comparing both ETICS’ alternatives with reference solutions, it was found that the latter only perform better in the economic dimension, and only for an energy consumption to fulfil less than 25% of the heating and cooling needs. This paper represents an advance to the current state-of-the-art by including all the life-cycle stages and dimensions of the LCA in the analysis of solutions for energy renovation of building envelopes.

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José D. Silvestre; André M. P. Castelo; José J. B. C. Silva; Jorge M. C. L. De Brito; Manuel D. Pinheiro. Retrofitting a Building’s Envelope: Sustainability Performance of ETICS with ICB or EPS. Applied Sciences 2019, 9, 1285 .

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José D. Silvestre, André M. P. Castelo, José J. B. C. Silva, Jorge M. C. L. De Brito, Manuel D. Pinheiro. Retrofitting a Building’s Envelope: Sustainability Performance of ETICS with ICB or EPS. Applied Sciences. 2019; 9 (7):1285.

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José D. Silvestre; André M. P. Castelo; José J. B. C. Silva; Jorge M. C. L. De Brito; Manuel D. Pinheiro. 2019. "Retrofitting a Building’s Envelope: Sustainability Performance of ETICS with ICB or EPS." Applied Sciences 9, no. 7: 1285.

Journal article
Published: 25 February 2019 in Land Use Policy
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Local governments face increasing pressure to define land-use policies to enhance local sustainable development. This requires the development of urban planning tools that can help them in selecting measures and priority intervention areas within their cities. The tools currently available only address this problem partially. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have been widely used in urban planning for handling spatial data but have limited capacities for representing choice and priority among the conflicting objectives for sustainable urban planning. Meanwhile, urban sustainability assessment systems, such as BREEAM-Communities (BREEAM-CM), can help to choose the most sustainable measures under such conflicting objectives, although they are typically non-spatial by assuming a spatial homogeneity within the study area, therefore, they cannot be used to identify priority intervention locations. This paper proposes bridging the gap between urban sustainability assessment and spatial analysis by combining GIS and BREEAM-CM. Instead of the traditional use of BREEAM-CM to assess a single neighbourhood, we applied this system to all Lisbon city subsections with the support from GIS. It resulted in the identification of priority intervention areas for sustainable development within the city including: attracting new businesses to the north area; implementing energy efficiency strategies and new green areas in the old town and central avenues; and improving public transport links in the north and western areas. These findings show that the proposed model can be a valuable tool for evaluating and defining local sustainable development strategies.

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Joana Pedro; Carlos Augusto Santos Silva; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. Integrating GIS spatial dimension into BREEAM communities sustainability assessment to support urban planning policies, Lisbon case study. Land Use Policy 2019, 83, 424 -434.

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Joana Pedro, Carlos Augusto Santos Silva, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. Integrating GIS spatial dimension into BREEAM communities sustainability assessment to support urban planning policies, Lisbon case study. Land Use Policy. 2019; 83 ():424-434.

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Joana Pedro; Carlos Augusto Santos Silva; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. 2019. "Integrating GIS spatial dimension into BREEAM communities sustainability assessment to support urban planning policies, Lisbon case study." Land Use Policy 83, no. : 424-434.

Journal article
Published: 16 January 2019 in Sustainability
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The selection of indicators for the Observatory of Sustainability of the Algarve Region for Tourism (OBSERVE), poses challenges, namely which indicators are relevant to stakeholders and how to assure that information is available. To support the selection of the environmental, sociocultural, economic and institutional indicators, an engagement process was designed and applied, which included meetings with stakeholders, a workshop and an online survey. The results showed that both workshop and online surveys reflected, in general, similar opinions, thus allowing the selecting of the sustainable development indicators for the Algarve region. Additionally, the results showed that nearly 75% of the indicators can be obtained from national statistics and, therefore, can be used on the OBSERVE project, assuring a quick flow of information. As limitations, it is important to mention that the other 25% will need further development, in order to provide data for indicators, like carbon management and client satisfaction. With this approach, the observatory will survey and evaluate the sustainable development of the region (status and trends), based on indicators that answer to the strategic needs of system’s main users, with social and economic implications, i.e., public institutions, economic agents, tourists, local communities and residents.

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Fátima Farinha; Miguel José Oliveira; Elisa M. J. Silva; Rui Lança; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Cátia Miguel. Selection Process of Sustainable Indicators for the Algarve Region—OBSERVE Project. Sustainability 2019, 11, 444 .

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Fátima Farinha, Miguel José Oliveira, Elisa M. J. Silva, Rui Lança, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, Cátia Miguel. Selection Process of Sustainable Indicators for the Algarve Region—OBSERVE Project. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (2):444.

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Fátima Farinha; Miguel José Oliveira; Elisa M. J. Silva; Rui Lança; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Cátia Miguel. 2019. "Selection Process of Sustainable Indicators for the Algarve Region—OBSERVE Project." Sustainability 11, no. 2: 444.

Data article
Published: 02 November 2018 in Data in Brief
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This data article presents data collected from the 250 highest revenue retailers around the world, assessed according to publicly available data from the fiscal year 2016, in order to determine retailer׳s overall carbon intensity (CI) and energy intensity (EI). Data collection included additional variables such as retailers' revenue rank, operational typology, number of stores, store sales area and number of workers. Based on this dataset, CI and EI benchmarks were calculated for food and non-food retailers, applying the statistic function first quartile (Q1) for the best practice, second (Q2) and third (Q3) quartiles for conventional practice and fourth quartile (Q4) for worst practice and correlations were tested between the variables "EI", "CI" and "retailer revenue", applying the statistic function CORREL (Ferreira et al., In press) [1]. Finally, a cluster analysis was performed for food and non-food retailers, to identify possible segmentation patterns between the variables "EI", "CI" and "retailer revenue". The information provided in this data article is useful for furthering research developments on the influence of isolated variables on retail EI and CI and in assisting retailers, architects, engineers, and policy makers in establishing optimal energy performance goals for the design and operation of retail stores. For further data interpretation and discussion, see the article "Combined carbon and energy intensity benchmarks for sustainable retail stores" (Ferreira et al., In press), of the same authors.

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Ana Ferreira; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Jorge De Brito; Ricardo Mateus. Carbon (CI) and energy intensity (EI) dataset for retail stores. Data in Brief 2018, 21, 1329 -1333.

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Ana Ferreira, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, Jorge De Brito, Ricardo Mateus. Carbon (CI) and energy intensity (EI) dataset for retail stores. Data in Brief. 2018; 21 ():1329-1333.

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Ana Ferreira; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Jorge De Brito; Ricardo Mateus. 2018. "Carbon (CI) and energy intensity (EI) dataset for retail stores." Data in Brief 21, no. : 1329-1333.

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Published: 08 October 2018 in Energy
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Retail stores are amongst the building typologies with the highest carbon (CI) and energy intensities (EI). However, previous studies have only explored the EI of food and non-food retailers. This study is the first of its kind to examine the link between CI and EI. Establishing the nature of this link will allow a deeper understanding of how to decarbonize the retail sector. Here, we hypothesised whether in retail low EI correlated with low CI and how corporate revenue affected these variables. “Best practice” and “conventional practice” benchmarks were then developed to assess retail buildings' sustainability. These represent missing and highly desirable tools in retail sustainable management. Average EI and CI of food retailers were twice that of non-food retailers (EI-548 vs 238 kWh/m2/y; CI266 vs 132 kg CO₂eq/m2/y). The correlation found between EI and CI indicates that low energy consumption leads to low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. CI variability resulted mostly of energy-efficiency strategies, of the energy production process and of GHG emissions from refrigeration systems. EI variability resulted mostly from store typology, volume and usage. The proposed benchmarks help to set energy and carbon reference performance levels in retail buildings and to stimulate best sustainable practice amongst retailers.

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Ana Ferreira; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Jorge de Brito; Ricardo Mateus. Combined carbon and energy intensity benchmarks for sustainable retail stores. Energy 2018, 165, 877 -889.

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Ana Ferreira, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, Jorge de Brito, Ricardo Mateus. Combined carbon and energy intensity benchmarks for sustainable retail stores. Energy. 2018; 165 ():877-889.

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Ana Ferreira; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Jorge de Brito; Ricardo Mateus. 2018. "Combined carbon and energy intensity benchmarks for sustainable retail stores." Energy 165, no. : 877-889.

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Published: 04 October 2018 in Journal of Environmental Management
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Over the last decades ‘resilience’ has particularly arisen as an attractive perspective with respect to cities. As cities continue to expand, their susceptibility to uncertainties and new challenges, such as climate change, has increased, rendering ‘urban resilience’ an increasingly favoured concept in the realm of Urban Development, Planning and Management (UDPM). Despite recent reviews, an updated analysis of the concept is required to understand whether there is in fact scientific evidence to support the expansion and favouring of ‘urban resilience’ in UDPM. The need to understand how the concept evolved is further emphasised by the need to perceive how the distinct sciences have contributed to its development, and which were the focuses and conceptual underpinnings of such evolution. Thus, the objective of this paper is to provide a broader review of the multidimensional concept of ‘urban resilience’, while understanding how distinct research fields have contributed to its inception and expansion, and how distinct conceptualisations of resilience have influenced its evolution. Supported by a bibliometric analysis of urban-centric publications, this paper highlights the recent extensive growth and expanding application of ‘urban resilience’ to distinct research fields, as well as an apparent theoretical stabilisation of the concept, which reemphasises the idea of a three-dimensional conceptual resilience perspective in scientific literature: (1) ‘engineering’, (2) ‘ecological’, and (3) ‘social-ecological resilience’. Consequently, this research emphasises that, if the related conceptual underpinnings are clear, ‘urban resilience’ can potentially serve as an ‘integrative metaphor’, adapted by diverse stakeholders, to reinforce UDPM initiatives.

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Duarte Marques Nunes; Ana Tomé; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. Urban-centric resilience in search of theoretical stabilisation? A phased thematic and conceptual review. Journal of Environmental Management 2018, 230, 282 -292.

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Duarte Marques Nunes, Ana Tomé, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. Urban-centric resilience in search of theoretical stabilisation? A phased thematic and conceptual review. Journal of Environmental Management. 2018; 230 ():282-292.

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Duarte Marques Nunes; Ana Tomé; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. 2018. "Urban-centric resilience in search of theoretical stabilisation? A phased thematic and conceptual review." Journal of Environmental Management 230, no. : 282-292.

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Published: 01 August 2018 in Sustainable Cities and Society
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Joana Pedro; Carlos Augusto Santos Silva; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. Scaling up LEED-ND sustainability assessment from the neighborhood towards the city scale with the support of GIS modeling: Lisbon case study. Sustainable Cities and Society 2018, 41, 929 -939.

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Joana Pedro, Carlos Augusto Santos Silva, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. Scaling up LEED-ND sustainability assessment from the neighborhood towards the city scale with the support of GIS modeling: Lisbon case study. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2018; 41 ():929-939.

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Joana Pedro; Carlos Augusto Santos Silva; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro. 2018. "Scaling up LEED-ND sustainability assessment from the neighborhood towards the city scale with the support of GIS modeling: Lisbon case study." Sustainable Cities and Society 41, no. : 929-939.

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Published: 01 January 2018 in Tópicos em Administração - Volume 15
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Karina Maria Costa Bardi; Ana Paula Duarte; João Luiz Rissardi; Vanessa Do Rocio Nahhas Scandelari; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Marcela Dutra Tenorio Campany; Maria Christina Barbosa Da Costa; Sonia Lopes Da Silva; Yuri Pinheiro Santos; Regina Rianelli De Brito; Jesus Domech Moré; Jose Carlos Beker; Jorge Julio Landeiro De Vaz; Tatiane De Oliveira Amancio; Ingrid Johnson; Paulo Roberto Rocha Aguiar; Richeliel Albert Rodrigues Silva; Genival Jardel Trajano Teixeira; Lúcia De Fátima Lúcio Gomes Da Costa; Mônica Almeida Gavilan; Rodrigo Mackssuel Silva De Melo; Igor Polezi Munhoz; Alessandra Cristina Santos Akkari; Neusa Maria Bastos Fernandes Dos Santos; Nelson José Rosamilha; Roquemar De Lima Baldam; João Caldeira Lélis; Lourenço Costa; Thalmo De Paiva Coelho Junior; Leandro Colombi Resendo; Raphael Alves Soares; Déborah Daniel Ferreira Coelho Soares; Leonardo Mangia Rodrigues; Alyne Madeira Kautnick; Joiceli Rossoni Lapolli; Paulo César Lapolli; Leandro Maciel Nascimento; Inara Antunes Vieira Willerding; Édis Mafra Lapolli; Richardson Silveira Almeida; Warli Anjos De Souza; Bernardo Almeida Mudjalieb; Jéssica Galdino De Freitas; Denise Terezinha Lisboa Bassani; Darciane Alves Justino. Tópicos em Administração - Volume 15. Tópicos em Administração - Volume 15 2018, 1 .

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Karina Maria Costa Bardi, Ana Paula Duarte, João Luiz Rissardi, Vanessa Do Rocio Nahhas Scandelari, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, Marcela Dutra Tenorio Campany, Maria Christina Barbosa Da Costa, Sonia Lopes Da Silva, Yuri Pinheiro Santos, Regina Rianelli De Brito, Jesus Domech Moré, Jose Carlos Beker, Jorge Julio Landeiro De Vaz, Tatiane De Oliveira Amancio, Ingrid Johnson, Paulo Roberto Rocha Aguiar, Richeliel Albert Rodrigues Silva, Genival Jardel Trajano Teixeira, Lúcia De Fátima Lúcio Gomes Da Costa, Mônica Almeida Gavilan, Rodrigo Mackssuel Silva De Melo, Igor Polezi Munhoz, Alessandra Cristina Santos Akkari, Neusa Maria Bastos Fernandes Dos Santos, Nelson José Rosamilha, Roquemar De Lima Baldam, João Caldeira Lélis, Lourenço Costa, Thalmo De Paiva Coelho Junior, Leandro Colombi Resendo, Raphael Alves Soares, Déborah Daniel Ferreira Coelho Soares, Leonardo Mangia Rodrigues, Alyne Madeira Kautnick, Joiceli Rossoni Lapolli, Paulo César Lapolli, Leandro Maciel Nascimento, Inara Antunes Vieira Willerding, Édis Mafra Lapolli, Richardson Silveira Almeida, Warli Anjos De Souza, Bernardo Almeida Mudjalieb, Jéssica Galdino De Freitas, Denise Terezinha Lisboa Bassani, Darciane Alves Justino. Tópicos em Administração - Volume 15. Tópicos em Administração - Volume 15. 2018; ():1.

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Karina Maria Costa Bardi; Ana Paula Duarte; João Luiz Rissardi; Vanessa Do Rocio Nahhas Scandelari; Manuel Duarte Pinheiro; Marcela Dutra Tenorio Campany; Maria Christina Barbosa Da Costa; Sonia Lopes Da Silva; Yuri Pinheiro Santos; Regina Rianelli De Brito; Jesus Domech Moré; Jose Carlos Beker; Jorge Julio Landeiro De Vaz; Tatiane De Oliveira Amancio; Ingrid Johnson; Paulo Roberto Rocha Aguiar; Richeliel Albert Rodrigues Silva; Genival Jardel Trajano Teixeira; Lúcia De Fátima Lúcio Gomes Da Costa; Mônica Almeida Gavilan; Rodrigo Mackssuel Silva De Melo; Igor Polezi Munhoz; Alessandra Cristina Santos Akkari; Neusa Maria Bastos Fernandes Dos Santos; Nelson José Rosamilha; Roquemar De Lima Baldam; João Caldeira Lélis; Lourenço Costa; Thalmo De Paiva Coelho Junior; Leandro Colombi Resendo; Raphael Alves Soares; Déborah Daniel Ferreira Coelho Soares; Leonardo Mangia Rodrigues; Alyne Madeira Kautnick; Joiceli Rossoni Lapolli; Paulo César Lapolli; Leandro Maciel Nascimento; Inara Antunes Vieira Willerding; Édis Mafra Lapolli; Richardson Silveira Almeida; Warli Anjos De Souza; Bernardo Almeida Mudjalieb; Jéssica Galdino De Freitas; Denise Terezinha Lisboa Bassani; Darciane Alves Justino. 2018. "Tópicos em Administração - Volume 15." Tópicos em Administração - Volume 15 , no. : 1.