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Eco-efficient Materials for Reducing Cooling Needs in Buildings and Construction (eBook, ePUB)

Design, Properties and Applications

Redaktion: Pacheco-Torgal, Fernando; Goran-Granqvist, Claes; Cabeza, Luisa F.; Pisello, Anna Laura; Czarnecki, Lech

Beschreibung

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. - Offers a comprehensive review of building envelope materials and technologies for reducing cooling needs - Features practical case studies, which are fundamental for building design and applications - Provides in-depth analysis of performance for different materials and technologies - Features brand new chapters on pavements, facade and roofing materials, PCMs and chromogenic smart materials

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Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128209431
• Artikelnr.: 61690761