EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF THERMAL PAINTS TO BE APPLIED TO THE COVERAGE OF CLASSROOM 305 OF BLOCK 03 OF UNIVERSITY CENTER OF INTEGRATED FACULTIES OF ``OURINHOS`` – S.P. (UniFIO) (Atena Editora)

Abstract

This work proposes the analysis of the efficiency of thermal paints to be applied to the roof of block 03 of an institutional higher education building with the objective of reducing the internal temperature of the rooms in this block, thus providing thermal comfort and reducing energy caused by of the air conditioners present in them. The case study was carried out at the beginning of 2022, more specifically in classroom number 305 of block 03, located on the Campus of the University Center of the Integrated Faculties of ``Ourinhos`` – UniFIO. Having been in use for approximately nineteen years, the building currently consists of eight classrooms, a model office, men's and women's bathrooms, corridors, an imaging laboratory, a library, an arts museum and an amphitheater. The methodology applied for the research was Post-Occupancy Assessment (A.P.O.), which is an important quality control tool for built environments whose main characteristic is to evaluate buildings taking into consideration, users' opinions. The research consisted of only one part, this being the technical evaluation after the application of thermal paint on the roof of classroom 305. The technical evaluation was based on walk-through inspections, that is, observations with the naked eye made by a student- intern at the model office of the architecture and urbanism course with the help of the thermo-hygrometer and filling out a technical table under the supervision of architect-teacher Douglas Murilha, where a series of measurements of the internal temperature of classroom 305 were carried out, which contain the thermal paint on the roof and the other classrooms present in block 03 without the thermal paint on the roof between the months of February and June of the year 2022.