DA INVISIBILIDADE AFRO-BRASILEIRA À VALORIZAÇÃO DA DIVERSIDADE CULTURAL: A IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DA LEI 10639/03 NA REDE MUNICIPAL DE ENSINO DE SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO

Esta pesquisa teve como pano de fundo a história, as legislações e ações de âmbito nacional referentes ao tema das relações étnico-raciais. O foco central de estudo foram as práticas educativas de professores da Educação Básica, especificamente na realidade sócio-educacional de escolas públicas da rede municipal de ensino da cidade de São Bernardo do Campo. Para isso, à luz da lei 10.639/2003 que alterou a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional e incluiu a história e cultura afrobrasileira no currículo oficial de ensino, analisou-se o que justificou o desenvolvimento de projetos pedagógicos sobre essa temática por aproximadamente 400 professores nos anos de 2008 e 2009, período em que não havia investimentos significativos da Secretaria de Educação no que se refere ao tema. A partir de uma abordagem qualitativa de natureza interpretativa, foram aplicados questionários aos professores, para saber o que motivou a realização dos projetos e o papel da formação nesse contexto. Analisou-se, ainda, como as práticas docentes têm contribuído para a discussão do papel da escola (problematizadora /reprodutora) em relação à implementação da Lei 10639/03. A pesquisa constatou que os processos de formação em suas diferentes modalidades podem ser um importante disparador para o desenvolvimento de trabalhos significativos sobre a temática das relações étnico-raciais. Evidenciou, ainda, a importância das leis mencionadas, se não para resolver a questão da invisibilidade da história da África e suas contribuições para a história e cultura brasileira, para contribuir também na problematização das relações raciais e apontar novos caminhos para redução das grandes diferenças sociais existentes no interior das escolas brasileiras.

Situações geográficas em movimento nas praias da área de proteção ambiental de Jenipabu: das ideologias ambientais ao território usado pelo circuito inferior do turismo

The Área de Proteção Ambiental de Jenipabu was created by Decreto 12,620/95, covering the beaches of Redinha Nova, Santa Rita and Jenipabu and Campina communities in the municipality of Extremoz, and Africa community fragment, in Natal. This protected area was created in the context of expansion of tourism in Rio Grande do Norte, in the 1990s, in which PRODETUR investments made possible the installation of infrastructure equipment, mainly in the Via Costeira and Ponta Negra beach in Natal by inserting it in the sun and sea tourism route to Northeast Brazil. In this context the beach Jenipabu in Extremoz, became one of the main attractions for those visiting Natal, due to the natural elements of its landscape, its dune field, which is offered to tourists the buggy ride. In December 1994 the excess buggy rides held in these dunes led to IBAMA ban their access to buggy for carrying out environmental study. This measure resulted in the creation of APAJ in 1995 with the goal of ordering the use and occupation to protect its ecosystems, especially the dunes, the disordered tourism. Given this context, this work aims to analyze the process of creating the APAJ and changes in the geographic space of its beaches, Redinha Nova, Santa Rita and Jenipabu, from the materialization of tourism process, as well as their implications for its residents. To this end, this paper presents a discussion of environmental currents that developed in the western portion of the globe, focusing on the need to regulate small areas of the national territory in protected areas, and an analysis of public policies that enabled the implementation tourism in APAJ as well as the laws and decrees governing the process of creation and management. Using the theory of circuits of urban economy of the Santos (2008) to analyze the territory used by tourism on the beaches of Redinha Nova, Santa Rita and Jenipabu, showing their dependent relationship with the territory used by the upper circuit on the Via Costeira and in the Ponta Negra beach and its influence on the APAJ urbanization process. Ending with the analysis of the influence of the materialization of tourism in the transformation of stocks ways of being-in-space and space-be of the Santa Rita and Jenipabu beaches in each geographical situation of APAJ among the first decades of the twentieth century to the 2014. Fieldwork was conducted between 2012 and 2014, performing actions of qualitative interviews with older residents of Santa Rita and Jenipabu beaches, interviews with structured questionnaire with merchants of APAJ and collecting GPS points trades, identifying and mapping the territory used by the lower circuit in APAJ beaches.

Vernaculares: a casa de fazenda seridoense do século XIX como exemplo de adaptação ao clima semiárido

The farm’s rural dwellings of creation from the Seridó Potiguar microregion, built in the nineteenth century, became a reference by its vernacular character, i.e. these buildings, besides having recognized relevance to the identity of the region, they are adapted to the conditions of the place in many aspects (economic, cultural, construction, physical, et.) and consist in protective spaces in relation to hostile characteristics of Seridó’s climate. Considering the above premise, the following question arises: What characteristics of the nineteenth century Seridó Potiguar’s cattle farms are crucial for them to be a protective space in relation to the semiarid climate? In order to answer the question, this research aim to identify which particularities of the Seridó’s farmhouses that contribute to adaptability in these buildings to semiarid climate, as protection environments; and contribute to the stock valuation of the architectural heritage concerned. Therefore, procedures were adopted divided into two stages. Were first identified the recurring characteristics in the studied buildings, through typological study performed from existing inventories (DINIZ, 2008; FEIJÓ, 2002; IPHAN, 2012). To define the type it worked up with the concept that merges Durand’s analytical typology that identifies the similarities and differences to classify buildings, having the character of historical survey and architectural documentation, with the definition proposed by Argan (1963) that the type is not defined a priory, but the deduction from a number of illustrative cases which have formal and functional similarity with each other. Then worked up in a sample of five different types with each other, defined by the possibility of access to the interior of the houses, proximity to other copies, good state of conservation and preservation. The contemplated farms were: Pitombeiras, Agenus e Garrotes in Acari’s town, and the municipality of Caicó, Palma and Penedo. The second stage consists of the architectural survey, photographic record, digital three-dimensional modeling (aiming to expand the existing documentation and registration) and thermal monitoring over approximately a representative day in five farmhouses, relating the thermal performance of the houses with their individual characteristics. The selected variables for analysis monitoring are based on the thermal comfort adaptive model (SPAGNOLO and DE DEAR, 2003 apud NEGREIROS, 2010). The characteristics of the houses were analyzed as meeting the passive thermal conditioning strategies recommended by NBR 15220 (ABNT, 2005), for the bioclimatic zone 7 where the municipalities of Caicó and Acari are located. The house’s analysis of the operating temperatures revealed that 90% of the times of day the environments are within the comfort range. The farmhouses, which had a higher degree of compliance with recommended bioclimatic strategies, had the best thermal performance. In environments (usually the kitchen and rooms with low ceiling heights, exposed to west radiation) which still had discomfort hours, the thermal comfort can be reached with air movement approximately 1,0 m/s.

Vernaculares: a casa de fazenda seridoense do século XIX como exemplo de adaptação ao clima semiárido

The farm’s rural dwellings of creation from the Seridó Potiguar microregion, built in the nineteenth century, became a reference by its vernacular character, i.e. these buildings, besides having recognized relevance to the identity of the region, they are adapted to the conditions of the place in many aspects (economic, cultural, construction, physical, et.) and consist in protective spaces in relation to hostile characteristics of Seridó’s climate. Considering the above premise, the following question arises: What characteristics of the nineteenth century Seridó Potiguar’s cattle farms are crucial for them to be a protective space in relation to the semiarid climate? In order to answer the question, this research aim to identify which particularities of the Seridó’s farmhouses that contribute to adaptability in these buildings to semiarid climate, as protection environments; and contribute to the stock valuation of the architectural heritage concerned. Therefore, procedures were adopted divided into two stages. Were first identified the recurring characteristics in the studied buildings, through typological study performed from existing inventories (DINIZ, 2008; FEIJÓ, 2002; IPHAN, 2012). To define the type it worked up with the concept that merges Durand’s analytical typology that identifies the similarities and differences to classify buildings, having the character of historical survey and architectural documentation, with the definition proposed by Argan (1963) that the type is not defined a priory, but the deduction from a number of illustrative cases which have formal and functional similarity with each other. Then worked up in a sample of five different types with each other, defined by the possibility of access to the interior of the houses, proximity to other copies, good state of conservation and preservation. The contemplated farms were: Pitombeiras, Agenus e Garrotes in Acari’s town, and the municipality of Caicó, Palma and Penedo. The second stage consists of the architectural survey, photographic record, digital three-dimensional modeling (aiming to expand the existing documentation and registration) and thermal monitoring over approximately a representative day in five farmhouses, relating the thermal performance of the houses with their individual characteristics. The selected variables for analysis monitoring are based on the thermal comfort adaptive model (SPAGNOLO and DE DEAR, 2003 apud NEGREIROS, 2010). The characteristics of the houses were analyzed as meeting the passive thermal conditioning strategies recommended by NBR 15220 (ABNT, 2005), for the bioclimatic zone 7 where the municipalities of Caicó and Acari are located. The house’s analysis of the operating temperatures revealed that 90% of the times of day the environments are within the comfort range. The farmhouses, which had a higher degree of compliance with recommended bioclimatic strategies, had the best thermal performance. In environments (usually the kitchen and rooms with low ceiling heights, exposed to west radiation) which still had discomfort hours, the thermal comfort can be reached with air movement approximately 1,0 m/s.

O problema mente-corpo na psicologia fenomenológica de Edith Stein : implicações para uma fundamentação da ciência psicológica

Psychology is a relatively new scientific branch and still lacks consistent methodological foundation to support its investigations. Given its immaturity, this science finds difficulties to delimit its ontological status, which spawnes several epistemological and methodological misconceptions. Given this, Psychology failed to demarcate precisely its object of study, leading, thus, the emergence of numerous conceptions about the psychic, which resulted in the fragmentation of this science. In its constitution, psychological science inherited a complex philosophical problem: the mind-body issue. Therefore, to define their status, Psychology must still face this problem, seeking to elucidate what is the mind, the body and how they relate. In light of the importance of this issue to a strict demarcation of psychological object, it was sought in this research, to investigate the mind-body problem in the Phenomenological Psychology of Edith Stein (1891-1942), phenomenologist philosopher who undertook efforts for a foundation of Psychology. For that, the discussion was subsidized from the contributions of the Philosophy of Mind and the support of the phenomenological method to the mind-body problem. From there, by a qualitative bibliographical methodology, it sought to examine the problem of research through the analysis of some philosophical-psychological philosopher's works, named: "Psychic Causality” (Kausalität Psychische, 1922) and “Introduction to Philosophy" (Einführung in die Philosophie, 1920). For this investigation, it was made, without prejudice to the discussion, a terminological equivalence between the terms mind and psyche, as the philosopher used the latter to refer to the object of Psychology. It sought to examine, therefore, how Stein conceived the psyche, the body and the relationship between them. Although it wasn't the focus of the investigation, it also took into account the spiritual dimension, as the philosopher conceived the human person as consisting of three dimensions: body, psyche and spirit. Given this, Stein highlighted the causal mechanism of the psyche, which is based on the variations of the vital force that emerges from the vital sphere. In relation to the corporeal dimension, the philosopher, following the analysis of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), highlighted the dual aspect of the body, because it is at the same time something material (Körper) and also a linving body (Leib). On the face of it, it is understood that the psyche and the body are closely connected, so that it constitutes a dual-unit which is manifested in the Leib. This understanding of the problem psyche-mind/body provides a rich analysis of this issue, enabling the overcoming of some inconsistencies of the monistic and dualistic positions. Given this, it allows a strict elucidation of the Psychology object, contributing to the foundation of this science.

As relações de interação e integração entre cérebro, corpo-propriamente-dito e meio-ambiente na constituição da mente consciente

This dissertation will be marked by our proposal to hold a theoretical perspective to the classical mind-body problem, and more precisely for the defense of the idea that consciousness (or conscious mind) emerges from the interaction and integration relationships between body proper, brain and environment. This purpose will lead us to assume an alternative position with respect to the more traditional perspectives to the mind-body problem, ie an alternative perspective not only in relation to the dualistics forms of mind-body, but also in regards to the reductive physicalists, which usually reduces mind to brain. Aiming to support a position that both avoid the idea that mind and body are distinct substances and the theory that the brain explains the consciousness in its totality, we will dedicate an important part of this work to explain how the structure of consciousness depends significantly of the body proper and the bodily information mechanisms as well as the environment and the physiological mechanisms through which we place ourselves in space, in front of us and the other bodies (organic and inorganic). Given that the relationship between brain, body and environment involves different mental levels — from the most primitive and unconscious mental mechanisms until conscious and sophisticated levels — we will proceed to the task of assuming a model to explain in what sense these levels contribute to that our instincts and the most sophisticated dimensions of our mental life are part of the one and the same process, which is why we will structure our argument from the ideia that mind, self, and consciousness are the different hierarchical levels which make up the totality of our psychic life and therefore organic one. Imbued with this conceptual approach, we will advance to the focus of this work, namely the reasons that will lead us to give a prominent role to the body proper and the environment in the constitution of the conscious mind, or even the reasons that will lead us to defend the thesis according to which we are embodied and situated, as well as the reasons that will lead us to reject the theoretical positions that dichotomize man and world. In order to support the thesis that we are embodied and situated, and therefore with the purpose of overcoming the theoretical paradigms that dichotomize consciousness and world, we will turn out to the authors and the perspectives we believe to be more successful in this endeavor, including the phenomenological approaches to bodily self-consciousness, the enactivists perspectives and the researches dedicated to mapping the interaction and integration relationships between brain, body and environment. To achieve our goals, the dissertation will be divided into two chapters: the first chapter will emphasize in what way the structuring of consciousness depends on the body proper and the environment, while in the second chapter we will resort to the phenomenological dimensions of bodily self-consciousness, emphasizing the bodily information channels that provide us the immediate certainty, in a first person perspective, that the self is bodily in a non-metaphorical sense.

La formación de los docentes de educación física : Aportes desde las estrategias de elección de la oferta de capacitación

La ponencia presenta los resultados de la tesis de maestría denominada "Las elecciones de los docentes de Educación Física de escuela secundaria frente a la oferta de capacitación, en La Plata (2007 - 2009)", cuyo objetivo fue analizar la elección de la capacitación desde la perspectiva de los actores, considerando la incidencia de sus contextos y la interacción con las culturas escolares en la que conviven. El enfoque conceptual- metodológico se enmarcó en la perspectiva del saber docente y su desarrollo profesional, en interacción con las características de las políticas de formación docente continua. En función de ello, se realizaron entrevistas a docentes de Educación Física, a responsables de la gestión de acciones de capacitación en el distrito de La Plata, y se analizaron los documentos que regulan la capacitación en la provincia de Buenos Aires. La ponencia explica las estrategias de elección de la capacitación de los docentes de Educación Física, a través de las siguientes dimensiones de análisis: I) qué demuestran las políticas de capacitación en clave histórica; II) la valorización del saber docente en las políticas de capacitación; III) el triunfo de la lógica del puntaje sobre la lógica de la acreditación; IV) la capacitación y las particularidades del saber en Educación Física, V) los formatos, los circuitos y los destinatarios de la capacitación

La formación de los docentes de educación física : Aportes desde las estrategias de elección de la oferta de capacitación

La ponencia presenta los resultados de la tesis de maestría denominada "Las elecciones de los docentes de Educación Física de escuela secundaria frente a la oferta de capacitación, en La Plata (2007 - 2009)", cuyo objetivo fue analizar la elección de la capacitación desde la perspectiva de los actores, considerando la incidencia de sus contextos y la interacción con las culturas escolares en la que conviven. El enfoque conceptual- metodológico se enmarcó en la perspectiva del saber docente y su desarrollo profesional, en interacción con las características de las políticas de formación docente continua. En función de ello, se realizaron entrevistas a docentes de Educación Física, a responsables de la gestión de acciones de capacitación en el distrito de La Plata, y se analizaron los documentos que regulan la capacitación en la provincia de Buenos Aires. La ponencia explica las estrategias de elección de la capacitación de los docentes de Educación Física, a través de las siguientes dimensiones de análisis: I) qué demuestran las políticas de capacitación en clave histórica; II) la valorización del saber docente en las políticas de capacitación; III) el triunfo de la lógica del puntaje sobre la lógica de la acreditación; IV) la capacitación y las particularidades del saber en Educación Física, V) los formatos, los circuitos y los destinatarios de la capacitación

La formación de los docentes de educación física : Aportes desde las estrategias de elección de la oferta de capacitación

La ponencia presenta los resultados de la tesis de maestría denominada "Las elecciones de los docentes de Educación Física de escuela secundaria frente a la oferta de capacitación, en La Plata (2007 - 2009)", cuyo objetivo fue analizar la elección de la capacitación desde la perspectiva de los actores, considerando la incidencia de sus contextos y la interacción con las culturas escolares en la que conviven. El enfoque conceptual- metodológico se enmarcó en la perspectiva del saber docente y su desarrollo profesional, en interacción con las características de las políticas de formación docente continua. En función de ello, se realizaron entrevistas a docentes de Educación Física, a responsables de la gestión de acciones de capacitación en el distrito de La Plata, y se analizaron los documentos que regulan la capacitación en la provincia de Buenos Aires. La ponencia explica las estrategias de elección de la capacitación de los docentes de Educación Física, a través de las siguientes dimensiones de análisis: I) qué demuestran las políticas de capacitación en clave histórica; II) la valorización del saber docente en las políticas de capacitación; III) el triunfo de la lógica del puntaje sobre la lógica de la acreditación; IV) la capacitación y las particularidades del saber en Educación Física, V) los formatos, los circuitos y los destinatarios de la capacitación

Measuring the Diversity and the Integration of Film Production in Mercosur: A Social Network Analysis

Based on an original and comprehensive database of all feature fiction films produced in Mercosur between 2004 and 2012, the paper analyses whether the Mercosur film industry has evolved towards an integrated and culturally more diverse market. It provides a summary of policy opportunities in terms of integration and diversity, emphasizing the limiter role played by regional policies. It then shows that although the Mercosur film industry remains rather disintegrated, it tends to become more integrated and culturally more diverse. From a methodological point of view, the combination of Social Network Analysis and the Stirling Model opens up interesting research tracks to analyse creative industries in terms of their market integration and their cultural diversity.

La FENACLE y la organización de los asalariados rurales en la Provincia del Guayas

Se analiza el sindicalismo agrario ecuatoriano en términos de representación de diferentes actores sociales. Se enfatiza en particular el desarrollo de la Federación Nacional de trabajadores agroindustriales, campesinos e indígenas libres del Ecuador (FENACLE). Se discute lamanera en que las políticas neoliberales cambiaron las condiciones de la lucha social en el Ecuador e impactaron en el desarrollo específico de la federación. Además se establecen lasposibles diferencias entre el movimiento campesino, el movimiento indígena y el sindicato agrario; y, en qué grado de representación la FENACLE involucra a cada uno de los grupos mencionados.

O Serviço Social e seu Significado nos Serviços de Psicologia e Orientação do Ministério da Educação

Esta dissertação resulta das reflexões desenvolvidas no âmbito de uma pesquisa exploratória qualitativa, cujo objecto de análise, o significado político e profissional da inserção do Serviço Social nos Serviços de Psicologia e Orientação (SPO) do Ministério da Educação, foi abordado segundo o quadro teórico conotado com a corrente do Serviço Social Crítico, donde retirámos os contributos analíticos de vários autores de que destacamos os de Baptista, Faleiros, Iamamoto, Martins, Netto, Negreiros, Henriquez, YasbecK etc. De acordo com esses modelos, foram definidas três dimensões analíticas no sentido de enquadrar e conceder significado(s) ao nosso objecto empírico(os SPO): i) a conjuntura sócio política do contexto europeu e nacional que precedeu e concorreu para a definição das políticas educativas e, consequentemente, para a criação destes Serviços - análise das relações sociais globais; ii) as diferentes posturas teórico metodológicas da Sociologia da Educação, Sociologia das Profissões e do Serviço Social que têm sustentado as práticas educativas em geral e em particular as práticas da actividade profissional (intimamente articuladas à primeira dimensão) - análise dos paradigmas teóricos e iii) as características essenciais do perfil profissional que foi e é requisitado pelas demandas do poder político no âmbito destes serviços, mais especificamente, no que se refere às práticas do quotidiano dos profissionais de Serviço Social - análise das relações de poder entre as diferentes profissões e entre estas e o Estado. Partindo do pressuposto que o Serviço Social, enquanto actividade profissional, conhece um processo de desvalorização gradual na área da educação, adoptámos como objectivo central desta pesquisa, tentar perceber as razões desse processo de desvalorização e, em consequência,tentar compreender o lugar / significado que foi atribuído ao Serviço Social nos SPO. Das conclusões a retirar há que situá-las, de entre outras, nas transformações ocorridas nos anos 80 e 90 nos contextos nacional e europeu. Isto é, na emergência de políticas neoliberais que proclamam a redução de encargos para o Estado, de entre eles, os encargos destinados às políticas sociais, nomeadamente na educação. Esta redução passará pela restrição de políticas colectivas e universais substituídas por políticas fragmentadas destinadas a determinadas categorias específicas da população atendendo a situações individuais (caso a caso), reduzindo-se assim o espaço destinado à profissão de Serviço Social. Por outro lado, ao nível dos paradigmas teóricos da educação, parece existir uma recuperação por parte do poder político, de uma concepção de educação e sucesso escolar assente em pressupostos individuais (capacidades individuais) negligenciando-se os aspectos sócioculturais, para os quais os assistentes sociais estariam mais sensibilizados. A conjugação destas duas tendências, aliadas a outras, permitem estabelecer um quadro compreensivo da perda de espaço e poder por parte do Serviço Social na área da educação, logo da desvalorização da actividade profissional neste campo de intervenção. Porém, pretende-se com este quadro contribuir para pensar os pressupostos da actividade de Serviço Social na educação e num futuro próximo.

Análise do custo-benefício de sistemas de cobertas em edificações comerciais para o clima de Natal/RN visando eficiência energética

This research consists in studying the influence of the various type of construction systems of roofs with their energy efficiency as well as on the cost benefit for the commercial buildings on the temperatures condition of the city of Natal/RN. The main goal of this research is to analyze the cost benefit of the construction systems of roofs available on the market, taking into consideration the energy efficiency of the commercial buildings artificially air conditioned in order to be used by the projectors and to be adequated to the temperatures condition of the city of Natal/RN. The method of valuation of the cost benefit of roof systems consists in six steps: Features and simulation of the reference building; Analyze of sensitivity; Analyzes, features and simulation of alternatives of roof construction systems; Analyze of the cost of implementation; Analyze of the benefits of the alternatives comparing to the base case; And finally the analyze of the cost benefit. The model type chosen as reference was stores with pre molded buildings and system of roof with fiber ciment and ceiling . The thermal results showed the influence of the roof system on the energy efficiency of the building. The Final results of the simulations of the alternatives comes to a conclusion that the absortance is the variable that presents the best cost benefit relation and the reduction on the thermal transmittance still has limitations because of the high cost

Análise de métodos de predição de conforto térmico de habitação em clima quente-úmido com condicionamento passivo

The assessment of building thermal performance is often carried out using HVAC energy consumption data, when available, or thermal comfort variables measurements, for free-running buildings. Both types of data can be determined by monitoring or computer simulation. The assessment based on thermal comfort variables is the most complex because it depends on the determination of the thermal comfort zone. For these reasons, this master thesis explores methods of building thermal performance assessment using variables of thermal comfort simulated by DesignBuilder software. The main objective is to contribute to the development of methods to support architectural decisions during the design process, and energy and sustainable rating systems. The research method consists on selecting thermal comfort methods, modeling them in electronic sheets with output charts developed to optimize the analyses, which are used to assess the simulation results of low cost house configurations. The house models consist in a base case, which are already built, and changes in thermal transmittance, absorptance, and shading. The simulation results are assessed using each thermal comfort method, to identify the sensitivity of them. The final results show the limitations of the methods, the importance of a method that considers thermal radiance and wind speed, and the contribution of the chart proposed

Por uma moradia termicamente confortável: proposta de habitação de interesse social com ênfase no conforto térmico

This research covers the topic of social housing and its relation to thermal comfort, so applied to an architectural and urban intervention in land situated in central urban area of Macaíba/RN, Brazil. Reflecting on the role of design and use of alternative building materials in the search for better performance is one of its main goals. The hypothesis is that by changing design parameters and choice of materials, it is possible to achieve better thermal performance results. Thus, we performed computer simulations of thermal performance and natural ventilation using computational fluid dynamics or CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics). The presentation of the thermal simulation followed the methodology proposed in the dissertation Negreiros (2010), which aims to find the percentage of the amount of hours of comfort obtained throughout the year, while data analysis was made of natural ventilation from images generated by the images extracted from the CFD. From model building designed, was fitted an analytical framework that results in a comparison between three different proposals for dwellings housing model, which is evaluated the question of the thermal performance of buildings, and also deals with the spatial variables design, construction materials and costs. It is concluded that the final report confirmed the general hypotheses set at the start of the study, it was possible to quantify the results and identify the importance of design and construction materials are equivalent, and that, if combined, lead to gains in thermal performance potential.