The need of today is to have energy efficient buildings materials and construction technologies that cater to this rising need. Hence, selecting construction and finishing materials that have low embodied energy and haveless operational and maintenance cost is the most powerful tool for the architects, designers and the constructors to achieve high energy efficiency in buildings. This special volume on ‘Materials and Technologies for Green Construction’ contains Ten chapters which address a wide range of issues pertaining to building materials and technologies with reference to energy efficiency. This volume demonstrates that alternatives to modern building materials are available and that today it is possible to produce building materials and select raw materials from an ecological perspective.

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Editors:

Mohammad Arif Kamal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4028/b-eSAca1

THEMA:

PHV, TGM, TNK

BISAC:

TEC021000

Keywords:

Energy Efficient Building Material, Materials for Environmental Sustainability

Details:

Special topic volume with invited peer reviewed papers only.

Pages:

150

Year:

2015

ISBN-13 (softcover):

9783038353294

ISBN-13 (CD):

9783038590293

ISBN-13 (eBook):

9783038267133

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Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: This special topic volume contains 10 invited papers on materials and technology for green construction. Architects and engineers from Europe, Asia, and Saudi Arabia discuss insulating materials for energy savings in buildings, soil-based building materials for energy efficiency, glass-wool insulation, energy-efficient skylight design in tropical houses, thermal insulation systems for energy efficiency, straw bale as an innovative sustainable material in construction, the fundamental parameters of heat and moisture transfer for energy efficiency in buildings, energy-efficient techniques for construction, recycling construction and demolition waste material for energy savings in India, and drivers and inhibitors influencing the adoption of stabilized earth construction to alleviate the urban housing crisis in Zimbabwe.

Ringgold Subjects:

— Alternative energy— Construction -- Sustainability— Materials science -- Sustainability