Roberto Lamberts

Full Professor & Head, Energy Efficiency Laboratory in Buildings (LABEEE), Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Roberto Lamberts is Full Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of the Energy Efficiency Laboratory in Buildings (LABEEE) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil and was a member of the Holcim Foundation Awards 2005 jury for Latin America.

Last updated: August 25, 2024

Winners of the Holcim Foundation Awards 2008 for Latin America

Roberto Lamberts, Full Professor & Head, Energy Efficiency Laboratory in Buildings (LABEEE), Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Image: courtesy LABEEE.

He was winner the Holcim Foundation Awards 2008 Bronze in Latin America for Solar water heating and rainwater tower, Florianopolis, Brazil. The “sustainable tower” provides rainwater harvesting, potable water storage and solar water heating in an integrated unit that can be installed within new or existing dwellings, and thus delivers a substantial improvement in the daily living conditions of residents.

Roberto Lamberts teaches classes and performs research in the area of heat and moisture transfer, building simulation, bioclimatology, thermal comfort and energy efficiency in buildings. He has worked with a wide range of research sponsors in Brazil, including Eletrobras, Petrobras, FINEP, CNPq and CAPES.

He holds a Bachelor (1980) and Master (1983) of Civil Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, and a PhD in Civil Engineering (1988) from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

Roberto Lamberts is past president of Brazilian Association for Technology in the Built Environment and Brazilian Building Performance Simulation Association, and a board member of the Brazilian Council for Sustainable Construction and International Building Performance Association.

He has published more than 70 articles in academic journals and two books. He has also supervised 49 MSc dissertations, 25 doctoral theses in the areas of Civil Engineering, Production Engineering and Architecture. He is on the editorial board of Ambiente Construido, E-mat, and the Habitare book series, as well as Advances in Building Energy Research and the Elsevier journal Energy and Buildings.