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Built Environment Resilience to Face Climate Change Effects In Paraguay’s Social Housing

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Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2020

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Currently, the implementation of measures to improve buildings energy efficiency beyond being an opportunity to improve their thermal performance is a strategy of mitigation and adaptation to climate change effects. This paper aims to evaluate different thermal envelope constructive solutions of a type of social housing that is used in Paraguay to improve its energy efficiency and thermal performance. Two options for the roofs and three options for the walls were evaluated. Finally, the best roof option with the best wall option was assessed. A total of six different options were considered. For the original state of the dwelling, the results of the energy dynamic simulations revealed very high annual thermal discomfort rates. With the changes introduced, significant improvements were achieved, reducing considerably the annual overheating rates, improving the quality of life and the social housing inhabitants’ resilience facing climate changes.

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  1. RISCO, Engineering Department, National University of Itapúa, Encarnación, Paraguay

    F. Silvero

  2. Engineering Department, National University of Itapúa, Encarnación, Paraguay

    M. Goiris

  3. Geology and Engineering Department, University of G d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy

    S. Montelpare

  4. Civil Engineering Department, RISCO, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    F. Rodrigues

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Silvero, F., Goiris, M., Montelpare, S., Rodrigues, F. (2021). Built Environment Resilience to Face Climate Change Effects In Paraguay’s Social Housing. In: Littlewood, J., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2020. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 203. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8783-2_18

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