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  Ligiana Fonseca, a doctoral student in Architecture and Urbanism (PPG.au), defended her thesis, titled “Thermal and energy adaptation of a school building to climate change,” on February 27, 2026, under the supervision of Professor Joyce Correna Carlo of UFV and co-supervision of...

João Pedro Martins, a student in the Master's Program in Architecture and Urbanism (PPG.au), defended his master's thesis on February 26, 2026.   The research aimed to evaluate the contribution of Phase Change Material (PCM) to the thermoenergetic performance of a monitored...

Theme: Microclimate modeling as an urban design tool: Case studies using ENVI-MET in Transsolar KlimaEngineering experiments   Date: Tuesday, October 14 Time: 8:30 a.m. (online)   Speakers: Isabela Tavares — Architect and urban planner, specialist in thermal comfort...

The Environmental Comfort RPG workshop, with the theme The Uncomfortable Mystery of Le Latec Hotel, was a success at ENCAC/ELACAC 2025. With spots filling up in record time, it showed participants how to encourage thinking about the phenomena involved in environmental comfort. After positive feedback...

On September 25 and 26, 2025, LATECAE members participated in the VII Seminar on Planning and Evaluation of the Built Environment (SEPAAC), whose theme was “Configurations of the Built Environment in Response to Crises: Technologies, Innovations, and Practices.” The event brought together...

The Latecae group participated in the ENCAC/ELACAC 2025 conference, which took place at USP São Carlos from September 1st to 4th. In addition to Professor Joyce, doctoral student Ligiana Fonseca, and former research fellow Letícia Cazelli, Professor Nayara Sakiyama from UFVJM, a research...

The work of Mário Silva, developed in collaboration with Italian researchers Andrea Gasparella and Giovanni Pernigotto (UniBz) and Alessandro Prada (University of Trento), was awarded at ENCAC/ELACAC 2025 in the Energy Efficiency section. The recognition was granted by both IBPSA Brasil and the...

On August 30, 2024, the Federal University of Viçosa hosted the Zona da Mata Regional Meeting of the Minas Gerais Technical Forum for Science. The event brought together engaged citizens for debates and lectures on proposals that will be taken to the state stage of the forum, which will take place...

Today (09/05/2024), the members of Latecae are visiting the Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri  (UFVJM), featuring a course on Digital Manufacturing Processes and Rapid Prototyping, taught by Caio Lucarelli and aimed at doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty...

Students affiliated with the Laboratory of Technologies in Environmental Comfort and Energy Efficiency (Latecae) defended their Final Course Projects (TCC) last week (December 11-15, 2023) under the guidance of Professor Joyce Carlo. The TCC of student João Pedro Martins, titled "School...