Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil

Civil Construction

Civil Construction is one of the areas addressed at the Construction Research Center (NPC), which was created in 1991 to meet the new demands of modernization and the search for greater competitiveness in response to industrial development. The research center was created with the objective of providing support in the technological development of the construction industry, with an emphasis on product and process quality, maximization of performance and minimization of costs and environmental impact. The NPC acts at the interface between the construction industry and the technological research and development (R&D) activities at UFSC. It works together with other graduate programs offered by the School of Technology at UFSC, including: Civil, Production, Chemical, Materials and Environmental Engineering, along with Knowledge Management and Architecture & Urbanism, bringing together the interdisciplinary skills required for technological innovation in this sector.

The integration of these diverse areas of specialization (Construction, Materials, Production, Processes, Management and Environment) occurred based on changes in the way research in Civil Construction is approached,with the introduction of modern instrumental and methodological techniques in R&D, originating from the area of advanced materials, together with new administrative systems and appropriate management styles. These research areas have in common the search for materials and processes of higher quality and the development of new perspectives in relation to evaluation, performance and the provision ofsupport for the normalization of materials and components.

The NPC also has a strong tradition in the development of products and processes, as well as in the transfer of results or provision of services to the productive sector. The main outcomes of this work are highlighted in articles published in international and national journals, books, and in the proceedings of both international and national conferences, demonstrating the quality of the work developed in this field. In 2019 alone, 17 articles were published in A1 journals, 2 in A2 journals, 6 in A3 journals, 1 in an A4 journal, 2 in B1 journals, and 1 in a C-level journal.

In 2019, the permanent faculty of the area was composed of 12 professors: Ana Paula Melo, Deivis Luis Marinoski, Enedir Ghisi (PQ1B), Fernanda Fernandes Marchiori, Fernando Oscar Ruttkay Pereira (PQ1D), Fernando Pelisser (PQ1D), Janaide Cavalcante Rocha (PQ1C), Philippe Jean Paul Gleize (PQ1B), Ricardo Rüther (PQ1B), Roberto Lamberts (PQ1A), Saulo Güths, and Wellington Longuini Repette (PQ1D). The collaborating faculty members were: Malik Cheriaf, Antonio Edesio Jungles, and Luiz Roberto Prudêncio Júnior. Among them, eight held CNPq research productivity grants at level 1.

The area of Civil Construction is divided into two main lines of research:

• Environmental Comfort and Energy; and
• Materials and Construction Processes, subdivided into two major themes:
  • Construction Management; and
  • Construction Materials and Components.

The students in the Civil Construction area, in addition to having access to the PPGEC infrastructure, conduct their research in the laboratories of the Construction Research Center (NPC) and in the associated laboratories listed below.

1. Laboratory for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (LabEEE) (LabEEE); Department of Civil Engineering;

2. Research and Training Center in Photovoltaic Solar Energy (FOTOVOLTAICA/UFSC); Department of Civil Engineering;

3. Laboratory for Nanotechnology Applications in Civil Construction (LabNANOTEC), Department of Civil Engineering;

4. Waste Valorization Laboratory (ValoRes), Department of Civil Engineering;

5. Civil Construction Materials Laboratory (LMCC), Department of Civil Engineering;

6. Thermal Comfort Laboratory (LabCON), Department of Architecture and Urbanism;

7.  Materials Laboratory (LabMat), Department of Mechanical Engineering;

8. Central Laboratory for Electron Microscopy, under the administration of the Office of the Vice President for Research(PROPESQ);

9. Laboratory of Porous Media and Thermophysical Properties (LMPT), Department of Mechanical Engineering;

10. Laboratory for Research in Refrigeration and Thermophysics (POLO), Department of Mechanical Engineering;

11. Interdisciplinary Laboratory for the Development of Nanostructures (LINDEN – PROPESQ).