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This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of resilience and adaptation of buildings and cities to climate change, as presented by international researchers at the VII International Congress on Recovery, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Buildings (CIRMARE), held in Porto, Portugal, on November 17 19, 2025. It covers a diverse range of topics such as accessibility of buildings and urban spaces, industrialization of rehabilitation processes, interventions in cultural heritage, building quality assessment, maintenance and requalification of built spaces, BIM and the digitization of construction, urban planning, circular economy in the construction sector, urban infrastructure rehabilitation, near zero energy buildings, urban resilience and climate change, recovery of degraded urban areas, service life, and pathologies in buildings. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, present a wealth of exciting ideas that will open novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists.
List of contents
Analysis of Urban Rehabilitation: Parque Oeste Inhoaíba, Rj.- Built heritage and restoration: exploring the field of intervention and research in vernacular rammed earth construction techniques.- Impact of real estate dynamics on the heat island in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro.- Update of the State of the Art of Urban Rehabilitation in the Autonomous Region of Madeira Collected Data Part V.- Update of the State of the Art of Urban Rehabilitation in the Autonomous Region of Madeira Collected Data Part VI.- Proposal for an Intervention Methodology to Reverse Errors in Rehabilitation.- Building Rehabilitation for Social Housing Identifying Design Patterns and Overcoming Anti Patterns.- Between Stone and Time: sustainable architectural rehabilitation between vernacular knowledge and contemporary economic challenges.- Prospection and Diagnosis of Pathologies Slaughter-house.- Experimental Behaviour of Tabique Walls under Shear Compression Tests.
Summary
This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of resilience and adaptation of buildings and cities to climate change, as presented by international researchers at the VII International Congress on Recovery, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Buildings (CIRMARE), held in Porto, Portugal, on November 17–19, 2025. It covers a diverse range of topics such as accessibility of buildings and urban spaces, industrialization of rehabilitation processes, interventions in cultural heritage, building quality assessment, maintenance and requalification of built spaces, BIM and the digitization of construction, urban planning, circular economy in the construction sector, urban infrastructure rehabilitation, near zero energy buildings, urban resilience and climate change, recovery of degraded urban areas, service life, and pathologies in buildings. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, present a wealth of exciting ideas that will open novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists.
