MIT Portugal PhD student awarded Fulbright Research Grant

Buildings are the largest energy consumers worldwide, so it seems the sector is ripe for energy investment and savings potential. In order to reduce buildings' energy impact, strategies have been developed to help owners and tenants use technology more efficiently. Yet these strategies vary from residential or commercial buildings -- which combined make up more than 30 percent of final energy consumption across European Union member states. This is the scope for Henrique Pombeiro's PhD thesis for the MIT Portugal Sustainable Energy Systems program. For this research, Pombeiro has been awarded a Fulbright Research Grant that will allow him to continue his studies at MIT on how to improve energy efficiency in buildings.