Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change
Design Principles for Climate Emergencies
- 1st Edition - February 24, 2023
- Latest edition
- Editors: Fernando Pacheco-Torgal, Claes Goran-Granqvist
- Language: English
Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies analyzes several scenarios and proposes various adaptation strategies for climate e… Read more
Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies analyzes several scenarios and proposes various adaptation strategies for climate emergencies (heat waves, wildfires, floods, and storms). Divided into three themes, the book offers an organized vision of a complex and multi-factor challenge. It covers climatic resilience and building refurbishment, implications for service life prediction and maintainability, and climate adaptation in the maintenance and management of buildings. Sections cover infrastructure materials, climate emergency adaptation and building adaptation to heat waves, wildfires, floods and storms.
The book will be an essential reference resource for civil and structural engineers, architects, planners, designers and other professionals who have an interest in the adaptation of the built environment against climate change.
- Presents technical solutions for adaptation of the built environment against climate change
- Features multiple authors spanning both engineering and architectural disciplines
- Proposes a systematic approach to implement low carbon solutions and build capacity to make successful transitions to a resilient city
Civil and structural engineers, architects, planners and designers, and other professionals with an interest in climate change and the built environment
1. Introduction to Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change
PART 1 RISK ASSESSMENT AND SCENARIOS OF CLIMATIC RESILIENCE
2. A framework for risk assessment of climate change
3. Scenarios for urban resilience - Perspective on climate change resilience at the end of the 21st century of a PV-powered mixed-use energy community in two European capitals.
4. Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies
PART 2 CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADAPTATION OF INFRASTRUCTURES
5. Climate resilient transportation infrastructures in coastal cities
6. Climate change risks and bridge design
7. Resilience of concrete infrastructures
8. Challenges Around Climate Resilience on Transportation Infrastructures
9. A Worldwide Survey of Concrete Service Life in Various Climate Zones
10. Effect of Global Warming on Chloride Resistance of Concrete: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China
PART 3 BUILDING ADAPTATION TO HEAT WAVES AND FLOODS
11. Resilient cooling of buildings to protect against heat waves
12. Climate change and building performance - Pervasive role of climate change on residential building behavior in different climates
13. Climate-responsive architectural and urban design strategies for adapting to extreme hot events
14. Resilience of green roofs to climate change
15. Permeable concrete pavements for a climate resilient built environment
16. Building design in the context of climate change and a flood projection for Ankara
17. Amphibious housing as a sustainable flood resilient solution
18. Nature-based Solutions and Sponge City for Urban Water Management
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: February 24, 2023
- Language: English
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Fernando Pacheco-Torgal
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal Investigator, CTAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, PortugalCG
Claes Goran-Granqvist
Claes Goran-Granqvist is Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at Uppsala University, Sweden. Professor Granqvist's research is focused on optical and electrical properties of materials, especially thin films for energy efficiency and solar energy utilization. He has published around 730 research papers in mostly refereed journals, over 30 books, had invited conference presentations at about 250 international conferences and chaired about 30 international meetings.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Engineering Science, Uppsala University, SwedenRead Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change on ScienceDirect