What does área de implantação mean in Portugal?
Área de implantação is the ground area a building occupies: the land inside a closed outline that follows where the building meets the ground and the outer walls of any basement floors.
- Defined in
- Decreto Regulamentar n.º 5/2019, Annex I, ficha I-9
- Law
- Decreto Regulamentar n.º 5/2019, technical concepts for spatial planning and urbanism
- Official text
- data.dre.pt/eli/decregul/5/2019/09/27/p/dre/pt/pdf
- Sources
- data.dre.pt/eli/decregul/5/2019/09/27/p/dre/pt/pdf
data.dre.pt/eli/dec-lei/108/2026/05/29/p/dre/pt/pdf - Checked
- 2026-11-05
What it means for the owner
- It is expressed in square metres.
- The polígono de implantação, the outline inside which building is allowed, must be at least as large (ficha I-53).
- Works that enlarge it are obras de ampliação (RJUE art. 2.º e)).
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