Fernanda Rodrigues is Assistant Professor with Habilitation in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Aveiro, where she completed her PhD in 2008 on the topic of buildings’ anomalies assessment and its conservation state, and her habilitation in 2021 under the topic construction management in the digital era. She is the lecturer and responsible for the courses in the area of construction management in the Master of Civil Engineering, lecturer and qualified expert for thermal performance of buildings and holds a passive house designer course. She is currently involved in research projects at the national level on the high energy and hydric efficiency of buildings, LCA of retrofit solutions. Currently is researching in BIM, buildings condition assessment, maintenance management of buildings. She published a significant number of papers in international and national journals and conferences and performed several technical reports on the construction anomalies, its causes and limitation/elimination measures. She was one of the founders and is part of the board of the Passive House Zero-Energy Portuguese Platform and is Vice-President of ANQIP - Water Supply and Drainage for Buildings Association. From January 2023 to April 2024, she was the Secretary of State for Housing in the XXIII Portuguese Government. During this period, she developed public housing policies and laws to implement in the construction sector. She coordinated the structure development of the Construction Code for Portugal, BIM policies for the private and public sector and collaborated in the structure development of PEPU - the national electronic platform for urban planning procedures.