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MANUEL MONTESDEOCA CALDERÍN ([email protected])

Architect by the Architecture School of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University (EA ULPGC) since 1986, specialized in Building and Urbanism.
Intern of the Training Plan for Research Personnel of the Ministry of Education and Science (1987-1989). Associate Professor of the Department of Architectural Construction from 1990 to 2006. Assistant Professor in the Department of Architectural Construction since 2006, teaching in subjects related to Environmental Conditioning of buildings, Bioclimatic architecture, Sustainable architecture, control of energy demand and Energy efficiency of buildings, zero energy buildings (nZEB) and architectural acoustics.
Doctor Architect by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, since January 2016.
Has developed investigation work in relation to the above mentioned subjects and has participated in a multidisciplinary team, responsable of elaborating a guide on the “Study of the envelope of the building using Canary materials”, in a specific agreement of collaboration with the Public Works and transportation counseling of the autonomous community administration.
Coordinating professor of the "ISOVER Multi-Comfort House International Competition", from the Architecture School of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University (ULPGC). In 2010 he joined the research group LIP (a) (Research Laboratory of Architectural Projects). In 2011 he assumed the position of vice principal of Quality Assurance at the Architecture School of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. In 2015, he becomes a member of the research team of the proyect BIA2015-64321-R, "Energetic impact of air permeability of residential buildings in Spain: Study and characterization of their infiltrations (INFILES)", as part of the State Program Of Research, Development and Innovation Oriented to the Challenges of the Society, Call 2015, Modality 1: "R + D + I Projects". Its main investigator is D. Jesús Feijo Muñóz, university professor, Department of Architectural Constructions, Engineering of the Land and Mechanics of the Continuous Means and Structure Theory of the University of Valladolid. In 2016 he joined the Architecture and Landscape Research Group of the ULPGC.