Prof. Dr. Luís Bragança

Prof. Dr. Luís Bragança has a Ph.D., MSc, and Licentiate in Civil Engineering and is a Professor in the Civil Engineering Department of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal. He is the coordinator of the international postgraduate programs in Sustainable Built Environment and the director of the Building Physics and Construction Technology Laboratory. His main areas of interest are sustainable construction development (sustainability assessment tools, lifecycle analysis, sustainable building technologies, and sustainable rehabilitation of buildings), building physics, building acoustics, and the rational use of energy in buildings. He actively participates in national and international standardizing work concerning sustainable construction, building thermal performance, and building acoustics. He has been the President of the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment since 2011. He is the author or coauthor of three registered patents and more than 400 publications, including books, chapters of books, keynote lectures, papers, and articles in international and national conferences and journals, 134 of which have been published in prestigious international journals.