Sara Margarida Parece is a PhD student at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and a research assistant at Iscte-ISTAR.
Her thesis project, Addressing Material Efficiency in Building Renovation Scenarios: A BIM-based Decision Support Tool, is funded by a grant from the MIT Portugal Programme.
Her work involves studying digital tools, such as building information modelling, to facilitate the transition to the circular economy in the construction sector, as well as sustainable design practices and the efficiency of building materials.
His areas of interest are Circular Economy, Decision Support Tools, Life Cycle Assessment and BIM.