Eco-efficient Materials for Reducing Cooling Needs in Buildings and Construction

Design, Properties and Applications
Herausgegeben:Pacheco-Torgal, Fernando; Czarnecki, Lech; Pisello, Anna Laura; Cabeza, Luisa F.; Goran-Granqvist, Claes

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Produktbeschreibung

Eco-efficient Materials for Reducing Cooling Needs in Buildings and Construction: Design, Properties and Applications provides a comprehensive review on building envelope materials and technologies for reducing cooling needs in buildings. The book offers in-depth analysis of the performance of new innovative materials and technologies used in pavements, facade and roofing materials, PCMs and chromogenic smart materials. Includes practical case study examples of their applications in building and construction. The book is an essential reference resource for researchers, architects and civil engineers, city planners, product developers, manufacturers, and other professionals working in eco-efficient cooling materials and sustainable and zero-energy building design.

Produktdetails

• Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering
• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology / Woodhead Publishing
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2019-0-02528-9
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 22mm x 152mm x 229mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780128207918
• Artikelnr.: 59415229

Autorenporträt

Fernando Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at C-TAC, University of Minho. He holds the title of Counsellor (Top 0.5%) from the Portuguese Engineers Association and has been consistently recognized as a Scopus Highly Cited Scientist in the global rankings by Stanford University. With over 300 publications to his name, he has carried out in-depth peer reviews of more than one thousand scientific papers and assessed nearly one hundred research grant proposals across 15 countries. He serves on the editorial boards of nine international journals and has been involved in editorial decisions for several hundred manuscripts. In addition, he has edited 33 international books, many of which are available in the libraries of prestigious institutions such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.

Prof. Lech Czarnecki PhD, D.Sc. - is the Scientific Secretary of Building Research Institute, ITB, former the Head of the Building Materials Engineering Department of (1981-2011) and the Vice-Rector for academic affairs ( 2002 - 2005 ) of Warsaw University of Technology. He was the President of International Congress on Polymers in Concrete (2006-2011). Professor was awarded "for eminent activities in new frontiers of building materials engineering? by the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of Japan in 2009 and "for distinguished service and leadership in the field of polymers in concrete? Owen Nutt Award in 2004.Author of more than 250 publications and Department editor of Bulletin of Polish Academy Science Technical Science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction

PART I. PAVEMENTS FOR MITIGATING URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS
2. High albedo Pavements
3. Performance of thermochromic asphalt
4. Pavements withn PCMs

PART II. FACADE MATERIALS FOR REDUCING COOLING NEEDS
5. Quantitative approximation of shading-induced cooling by climber green wall based on multiple-iterative radiation pathways
6. Experimental study on geometric configuration and evaporative cooling potential of brick elements
7. A geothermal and an evaporative system for building walls
8. Cooling techniques in reducing overheating of clay-straw building in semi-arid climate
9. Multi-layer glass and BIPV facade structures

PART III. ROOFING MATERIALS FOR REDUCING COOLING NEEDS
10. Green roofs as passive system to moderate buildings cooling requirements and UHI effects: assessments by means of experimental data
11. Thermal evaluation of building roofs with conventional and reflective coatings
12. Active and passive systems for cool roofs

PART IV. PCMS AND SWITCHABLE GLAZING BASED MATERIALS FOR REDUCING COOLING NEEDS
13. Bio based PCMs for reducing cooling needs
14. Performance of bricks with PCMs in India
15. Influence of novel PCMs based strategies on building cooling
16. Optically smart thin material for building cooling
17. An overview of the performance of thermochromic glazing
18. Performance of thermochromic windows