On Wednesday, the 19th of November 2025, the CURA Lab team participated in the first workshop of the RESILIENCE Project, hosted at INESC Coimbra. The workshop brought together a broad consortium of stakeholders working on energy efficiency, the circular economy, and lifecycle-based assessment in the built environment.
From CURA Lab, our Head, Dr Eugénio Rodrigues, and Ph.D. student Sona Mammadzada were present and engaged in the discussions. Also joining the workshop at the venue were other partners including:
- Dr Paulo Santos and Dr Rita Andrade Santos (ADENE)
- Dr Sérgio Tadeu and Dr Luísa Dias Pereira (ISQ)
- Dr Daniel Gil (ERSE)
- Dr Paula Fonseca (ISR)
- Dr Maria Inês Cunha (Project REVERTER / Municipality of Coimbra)
- Dr Carlos Silveira (CCDRC)
Additionally, the host institute INESC Coimbra was represented by Marcos Tenente, Prof. Humberto Jorge, Prof. António Gomes Martins, and Prof. Álvaro Gomes (RESILIENCE Principal Investigator).
The RESILIENCE Project – Residential Energy-Efficiency Strategies Incorporating Lifecycle Sustainability and Circular Economy – spans from July 2025 to June 2028, and aims to fill key gaps in current methodologies by adopting a truly integrated, lifecycle-oriented roadmap for energy-efficient technologies, embedding circular economy principles, and equipping decision-makers with toolsets for selecting effective portfolios of measures.
At the workshop, attendees discussed the project’s scope and initial work plan, explored how lifecycle-oriented and circular-economy perspectives can strengthen building energy-efficiency programmes, and began mapping roles and responsibilities across the consortium. The contributions of CURA Lab – given our expertise in building energy performance and climate change impacts on the built environment – were oriented toward modeling and assessing holistic energy-efficiency packages.
The meeting also served as a platform for building synergies across partner organizations: from regulatory bodies (ERSE), national energy-efficiency agencies (ADENE), industrial test-houses (ISQ), regional development agencies (CCDRC), and local municipalities (Coimbra) – a truly multi-stakeholder alignment in support of sustainable built environments.
We look forward to sharing further updates as the RESILIENCE Project progresses.