
Eco-efficient Materials for Reducing Cooling Needs in Buildings and Construction
Design, Properties and Applications
- 1st Edition - October 6, 2020
- Editors: Fernando Pacheco-Torgal, Lech Czarnecki, Anna Laura Pisello, Luisa F. Cabeza, Claes Goran-Granqvist
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 7 9 1 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 9 4 3 - 1
Eco-efficient Materials for Reducing Cooling Needs in Buildings and Construction: Design, Properties and Applications provides a comprehensive review on building envelope materi… Read more

- 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
Researchers, architects and civil engineers, city planners and product developers and manufacturers and other professionals working in eco-efficient cooling materials and sustainable and zero energy building design
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
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 6, 2020
- Language: English
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Fernando Pacheco-Torgal
LC
Lech Czarnecki
AP
Anna Laura Pisello
LC
Luisa F. Cabeza
CG