MIT Sustainable Design Lab
UBEM Lisbon – A New Look At Old Buildings

Christoph Reinhart, Claudia Sousa Monteiro (IST), Carlos Cerezo Davila, Alpha Arsano, Irmak Turan, Khadija Benis (IST) (2014 - 2018) supported by the MIT Portugal Program

Workshop Agenda | Workshop Slides

In this project we collaborated with the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal, on various environmental aspects for two neighborhoods in Lisbon including operational building energy use, hourly peak load predictions, the role of natural ventuilation in a warming climate, porperty taxes based on access to daylight and hydroponic food production. We presented these finding at a workshop entitled A New Look At Old Buildings at the Municipality in Lisbon on March 21 2018. A summary video of the workshop will soon be available on this web site.