Programa de Cooperação Brasil - Alemanha (PROBRAL)

Seeking to expand cooperation between postgraduate programs of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Brazil and Germany to develop and publish research with greater academic impact, CAPES and DAAD launched the PROBRAL Notice. The notice selected proposals for joint research projects between Brazil and Germany in all areas of knowledge, within the scope of the PROBRAL Program.

The objective of the program is to encourage scientific exchange between Brazilian and German research groups for the development of research on strategic themes in different areas of knowledge, in addition to promoting the mobility of professors and researchers linked to Postgraduate Programs in Brazil, at the level postdoctoral students, as well as postgraduate students at the doctoral level.

LabEEE and Living Lab smart office space from RPTU (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau) are participating in PROBRAL with the project “Energy Efficiency and Resiliency of Buildings”. The project coordinators are Prof. Ana Paula Melo, coordinator of the Brazilian section, and prof. Sabine Hoffmann, coordinator of the German part.

The project lasts 2 years and can be extended for another 2 years, and aims at the mobility of researchers (two postdoctoral researchers and four doctoral researchers) to Germany, and several missions of German researchers to Brazil.

The objective of the project is: Assess the link between resilience and energy efficiency in buildings considering human comfort under the effect of climate change.

Specifically, the project aims to:

  • Revisar a literatura referente aos estudos de conforto humano na condição transiente.
  • Estabelecer um experimento de coleta de dados em ambientes não-controlados (laboratórios vivos) para compreender a conforto humano na condição transiente.
  • Investigar indicadores que mensurem o impacto da condição exterior (outdoor) no desempenho do ambiente construído (indoor).
  • Caracterização e análise de variáveis climáticas para análise de desempenho de edifícios considerando condições climáticas futuras.
  • Desenvolver um modelo confiável e robusto para representar o conforto humano na condição transiente dentro do ambiente construído.
  • Investigar indicadores-chave de desempenho (KPI) para representar a resiliência do edifício e a eficiência energética do edifício adequadamente.

Atualmente, o projeto está na fase de Revisão de Literatura e planejamento das próximas etapas. Inicialmente, estima-se as seguintes etapas:

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