Milagrosa Borrallo-Jiménez

NDOOR AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN A HIGHER EDUCATION LIBRARY: IMPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN EDUCATIONAL SPACES Brisa Braga,, Ermelinda Pereira, Susana Capitão, Fabiana Tiago, Paula Baptista, Manuel Feliciano HIGH-RESOLUTION MONITORING OF HYGROTHERMAL AND INDOOR AIR QUALITY: ARE MEDITERRANEAN SCHOOLS HEALTHY? Carmen María Calama-González Jesús Llanos-Jiménez; Rocío Escandón; Rafael Suárez INTELLIGENT LOW-COST MONITORS FOR INDOOR AIR QUALITY MONITORING IN SCHOOLS Hiten Chojer ; J.P. Sá,; P.T.B.S Branco,; F.G. Martins,; S.I.V. Sousa, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ RESEARCH ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL BUILDING Miguel Díaz Sofía Zaragoza METHODOLOGY FOR CHARACTERISING INDOOR AIR QUALITY IN EUROPEAN SCHOOLS USING CONTINUOUS MONITORING AND GO-AQS INDICATORS Jose Fermoso; Sandra Rodríguez-Sufuentes; Alicia Aguado; Artur Badyda; Adam Muszynski; Piotr Kepa, Mariusz Rogulski, Alexandra Kristian CHILDREN’S RIGHTS TO SAFE, HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS IN SPAIN Enrique Hernández-Diez; Margherita Mini and Claudia Ponce de León Rodríguez URBAN CLASSROOMS AS POLLUTION AMPLIFIERS: FULL-YEAR EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE Alberto Leal Matilla; Alicia Zaragoza Benzal; Alexandra Míguez Souto; Daniel Ferrández Vega E+V MORE VENTILATED SCHOOLS: IMPROVING THE IAQ OF EDUCATIONAL CENTERS Fabian López Plazas; Eva Crespo Sánchez; Mònica Ubalde-López; Gloria Carrasco-Turigas; Silvia Gómez Araujo; Pablo Gonzalez Ruiz ENHANCING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH ADDITIONAL ACOUSTIC METRICS INTEGRATING IEQ PERSPECTIVES Juan Negreira; Nicolás Bermejo-Presa; Isabel Sánchez-Camacho ASSESSMENT OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (IEQ) UNDER EPBD 2024 IN A ZERO EMISSION BUILDING. CASE STUDY Julio San José-Alonso, ; Yolanda Arroyo, ; Francisco J. Rey-Martínez, Luis J. San José-Gallego,; Alberto Rey ; Carmen A. García-García , and Javier M. Rey-Hernández ,. CITIZEN SCIENCE TO UNDERSTAND CHILDREN’S THERMAL COMFORT AND HEAT ADAPTATION PRACTICES AT SCHOOL Mar Satorras; Joana Ortiz; Carlos Chang; Elena Domene ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING THROUGH IOT AND DIGITAL TWINS: A FRAMEWORK FOR INTELLIGENT BUILDING MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES Carmen Gómez, Francisco Castilla, Alejandro Lucas and Antonio Adán EVALUATING NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS IN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS: A METHODOLOGICAL MATRIX FOR EUROPEAN CASE STUDIES Hugo Canahua LIGHT AND TRANSPARENCY AS ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE. THREE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES DESIGNED BY TRAZA ARQUITECTURA Francisco Felipe Muñoz Carabias; Manuel Rodrigo Gutiérrez de la Cámara FROM GIANT REED WASTE TO HEALTHY CLASSROOMS: LIME BASED ARUNDO DONAX L. PANELS FOR LOW EMISSION INTERIORS Jonathan Ruiz-Jaramillo; Carmen M. Muñoz-González; Ana Morales-Guisande; Milagrosa Borrallo-Jiménez

The building sector is one of those responsible for a large part of the impacts caused to the environment, being also the sector with the greatest potential to solve the problem of climate neutrality set by the European Commission for the year 2050. More than 35% of buildings in the EU are more than 50 years old. In addition, more than 94% of the current buildings in Europe will stand in 2050, subject to rehabilitation guidelines. Most of these buildings are old and energy inefficient, with more than half of them in the three lowest energy classes (E, F and G) marked by the EU. Level(s) is a voluntary and common framework for assessing the environmental performance and sustainability of buildings during their life cycle that has been developed by the European Commission. Level(s) contributes to the circular economy, offering a step-by-step procedure for life cycle assessment through a set of basic sustainability indicators for residential and office buildings, which address not only their environmental performance but also other key aspects in sustainability linked to health, comfort, well-being, the cost of the life cycle or future risks in behaviour. This article presents the research work developed for the study of different passive strategies for the rehabilitation of residential buildings in obsolete neighbourhoods of Seville, specifying the Polı́gono San Pablo as a case study. An Architectural Rehabilitation Methodology with sustainability criteria is proposed, according to the Macro Objectives of the European Level(s) framework. The work is included within the Project “Direct application of the Aura Strategy of the SD-US Team, for the rehabilitation of obsolete Andalusian neighbourhoods”.

Using a novel approach based on the urban ecosystem services approach, this research explores the relation between socio-economic, architectonic and ecological factors in urban renewal processes. This deductive conceptual approach is based on the definition of an urban diagnosis and intervention model based on the concept of urban socio-ecosystemic services. This conceptual approach is applied to three research cases in Andalusia (Spain) neighbourhoods linked to participatory urban renewal processes. A model is inductively defined from these analysed case studies: the socio-ecosystemic services model, based on the conceptual frame, the development of particular instruments and the definition of a participatory methodological strategy. The results obtained in these urban workshops show that the socio-ecosystem model better integrates the relationships between the architectural, socio-economic and ecological dimensions in addressing the need for urban services and infrastructure and the quality of life in neighbourhoods. Citizens can formulate their needs and perceptions of the neighbourhood beyond traditional quantitative variables (i.e. number of car parks, average size of dwellings, population density, etc.), incorporating aspects such as urban landscape, air quality, urban noise, shaded rest areas and children’s spaces. All these perceptions are collected and transformed into proposals for neighbourhood improvement, which are assessed and prioritized by the citizens. Together with participatory processes, this approach can be considered as the key to success in urban renewal strategies in neighbourhoods. However, it is necessary to develop indicators and metrics of the relationships between the socio-economic and ecological dimensions that allow a more integrated study of the model at different urban scales.

This article presents a methodological proposal to address the urban issue from the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Different tools have been developed for this purpose: the Aura Method and the Aura Matrix. The Aura Matrix of relationships built from the SDGs, along with the conceptual proposals to which the project must respond, allows for the definition of a methodological framework of action, defined as the Aura Method, applicable to any project that aims to respond to the urban scale from a more sustainable and healthy approach and within the framework of the above-mentioned goals. Two proposals for the Solar Decathlon Latin America of the Aura Team from the University of Seville (2015 and 2019) in Cali, Colombia, and their comparison, are presented as case studies. The scope of the 2019 proposal based on the use of these tools is more rigorous and bold with respect to the requirements defined by the SDGs than the 2015 proposal, based on the millennium goals. This reinforces to a great extent the resilience of the urban scope under study and its capacity to face serious situations in terms of citizens’ health, such as the pandemic we are currently suffering, and improves life quality. The main findings lay on the defined Aura Matrix and Aura Method tools as pragmatic opportunities to translate conceptual approaches such as G3: ‘Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’ into practical decisions and urban design proposals to improve the quality of life and health of citizens.

The article outlines the creation of a method for the development of tools to incorporate sustainability criteria in the field of architectural design. The aim of the research is to provide society with scientific knowledge related to sustainability, evaluating the environmental impact of their actions within the building sector, in a simple and direct manner through specific and contextualised tools. A specific tool is experimentally developed for the context of Seville, called Guide for a more Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism (GAUS), in its first document, GAUS-D1. Based on national and international documentary references, the method principles are defined, and an approach is adopted that prioritises communicative actions with the aim of reaching citizens, professionals, and researchers in the building sector. The specific experiment is developed with GAUS-D1, and an initial evaluation is made of its suitability and the validity of the proposed method. The approach followed ensures that the experience of developing this type of tool is internationally transferable to any other place. Further statistical verification of the use of the tool (which implies a defined testing strategy) is necessary so that the method can be consolidated as a national and international reference.

Todas las ventajas e inconvenientes que conlleva la utilización del acero en la construcción actual en función del uso y tipología del edificio, el control de ejecución y las acciones externas a las que se ve sometido.

This article presents the multidisciplinary methodology employed in the restoration of a 17th-century timber roof frame in Spain. This detailed methodology furthers contributions of previous researchers and could be applied to any restoration work of patrimonial architecture. Our interest focuses on two main aspects: the importance of the knowledge of construction techniques of the time that the work in question was built and the necessary continuous interrelation between the different aspects involved in the process. The historical survey enjoys a greater scope than the mere description of the historical-constructive evolution. The collective consideration of all the aspects involved allows us to perform inspections properly, to detect the critical points of the system and even, as in this case, to define the criteria and procedure of intervention. For clarification purposes the characteristics of the rafter and collar-beam system used in this building and its references in carpentry treatises are also described.