Towards Sustainable Architecture: Exploring Innovative Materials, Construction Technology, and Design Concepts for Eco-Friendly Buildings

Abstract:

Urban built environment consumes number of earth and forest materials that cause environmental degradations and also release greenhouse gases in atmosphere leading to extreme climate changes in recent decades. In the changed scenario, new materials are required to face adversaries’ like flash floods, cloud bursts, landslides, forest fires, high temperatures etc. There is also a need to adopt materials which help us to fight against these adversities and reduce GHG emissions. For this purpose material scientists and product designers have used innovative ideas that are replacing the old traditional materials. Some of them being new insulating concrete foams, multiwall cladding, engineered wood etc. Adaptation of using new design concepts, materials and built environment energy modelling strategy cuts off emissions as well as reduce the total energy load of building. In the present study an assessment has been done for engineered smart technology enabled building materials and design concepts that can help in achieving sustainable development which is the need of the hour.

• Periodical: Engineering Headway (Volume 11)
• Pages: 35-43
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-wB5308
• Online since: July 2024
• Authors: Huma Matloob*
• Keywords: Design, Innovative Building Materials, New Constructional Technology, Sustainable Architecture

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