Editors:
Maximizes reader insights into the energy consumption of
buildings and how increasing their energy efficiency through nano- and biotech
materials can reduce emissions, improve competitiveness and create employment
Provides the necessary high-tech tools for practitioners to tackle the challenges of energy efficiency in buildings
Suitable for civil engineers, architects, materials scientists and researchers in the field of the sustainability of the built environment, amongst others
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Derek Clements-Croome, Emeritus Professor in Architectural Engineering, University of Reading (From the Foreword)
Demonstrating how higher energy efficiency in new and existing buildings can help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, this book details the way in which new technologies, manufacturing processes and products can serve to abate emissions from the energy sector and offer a cost-effective means of improving competitiveness and drive employment.
Maximizing reader insights into how nano and biotech materials – such as aerogel based plasters, thermochromic glazings and thermal energy adsorbing glass, amongst others – can provide high energy efficiency performance in buildings, it provides practitioners in the field with an important high-tech tool to tackle key challenges and is essential reading for civil engineers, architects, materials scientists and researchers in the area of the sustainability of the built environment.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Minho, Guimaraães, Portugal
F. Pacheco Torgal
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Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Cinzia Buratti
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Department of Applied Science, Anna University, Chennai, India
Siva Kalaiselvam
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Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Claes-Göran Granqvist
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Schl of Civil & Environmental Engg, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Volodymyr Ivanov
About the editors
F. PACHECO-TORGAL is an Investigator at C-TAC Research Centre, University of Minho in Portugal. Authored almost 300 publications, 96 referenced in ISI Web of Science-WoS. Has a SCI Platinum h=30, the highest in the field of civil engineering in Portugal. Invited reviewer for 76 international journals for which he reviewed so far more than 260 papers. His review record places him at the Top 0.25% between more than 48.000 reviewers registered in Publons. Currently ranks 5th place between more than 900 engineering reviewers. Lead Editor of 14 books (11 already published and 5 being on the Master Book List of Web of Science) with more than 500 contributors from 52 countries in the five continents. Some of these books are available in all the libraries of the 10 most important Universities according to the Shanghai Ranking World Top 500 Universities. F.Pacheco-Torgal has practiced as a professional Civil Engineer during 10 years (1993-2003) during which he participated in building design projects and on-site supervision activities amounting to an excess of 49 million euros. Member of the Portuguese Board of Engineers since 1993, granted with the Senior title in 2003.
CINZIA
BURATTI born in Marsciano (PG, Italy) in 1966; Civil Engineer since 1990.
Researcher in Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer at University of Perugia
(Italy) since 1990: 1995, PhD in Applied Physics; 1997 – 2004, Assistant
Professor; since 2005 Associate Professor. Director of CRB (Italian Biomass
Research Centre) since 2014; President of Umbria Section of AIDI (Italian
Illuminating Association) since 2012; Coordinator of PhD Course “Energy and
Sustainable Development” since 2013. Scientific Research in Transparent
insulation materials (aerogel); Indoor thermal comfort and works of art
conservation; Biomass and bioenergy;
Environmental Impact; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Carbon Footprint;
Sustainable energy; Heat Transfer; Acoustics; Natural lighting. Author of over
than 150 scientific publications.
Dr.
S. KALAISELVAM is the Head, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Anna
University, Chennai. He obtained his Doctorate and Post Graduate
degree from Anna University,
Chennai, and bachelor degree from University of Madras. He is a recipient of
the Active Researcher Award - 2013 by CTDT, Anna University from the Former
President of India, Honorable A. P.
J. Abdul Kalam, and Young Scientists award from
DST, Government of India, and IEI Young Mechanical Engineers Award from the Institution of Engineers, India. He
has published more than 50 articles in International Journals and presented
more than 70 papers in National and International conferences. He also authored
a Book in Academic Press (Elsevier) and contributed several chapters in Books of International
Standards. His research interests
encompass nanoscale and microscale heat transfer, nanomaterials, thermal energy
transport, phase change materials, nanofluids and HVAC systems.
CLAES-GÖRAN
GRANQVIST, born 1946, is currently Senior Professor of Solid State Physics at
the The Ångström Laboratory of Uppsala University in Sweden. Granqvist’s
research covers materials, mostly thin surface coatings, for energy efficiency
and solar energy applications particularly in the built environment. The
variable-transmittance “smart” window is one example, which also forms the
basis of ChromoGenics AB, a company founded by Granqvist and collaborators and
presently employing some 20 persons. He is member of The Royal Swedish Academy
of Sciences and The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 2015,
Granqvist received the Jan Czochralski Award for his lifetime achievements in
Materials Science.
Dr.
VOLODYMYR IVANOV has more than 40 years of teaching and research experience on
Environmental, Industrial, and Construction Microbiology and Biotechnology in
the universities of Europe, Asia, and USA. He is an author of 200 papers,
patents, book chapters and 8 monographies. His textbook “Environmental
Microbiology for Engineers”, Francis & Taylor, 1st (2010) and 2nd (2015)
editions, was adopted for the graduate and post-graduate courses in the
universities. His research experience includes the supervision and
participation in the projects on biotechnologies with biofilms and biogranules,
microbial transformations of iron, biocementation, bioclogging, and
bioremediation of soil, microbiological monitoring of water quality.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nano and Biotech Based Materials for Energy Building Efficiency
Editors: F. Pacheco Torgal, Cinzia Buratti, Siva Kalaiselvam, Claes-Göran Granqvist, Volodymyr Ivanov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27505-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27503-1Published: 19 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80155-1Published: 09 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27505-5Published: 04 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 484
Number of Illustrations: 154 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Efficiency, Civil Engineering, Materials Engineering