Adaptive Facades, Developed with Innovative Nanomaterials, for a Sustainable Architecture in the Mediterranean Area

Gallo, Paola; Romano, Rosa

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.04.289

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“…Modular design helps to reduce complexity and increases productivity in the manufacturing process. For example, façade modules can be developed independently of each other, thereby increasing efficiency and quality 8 . The obsolescence of large‐scale hydraulic engineering plants leads to the development of sustainable digital maintenance management systems.…”

Section: Digitalizationmentioning

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Smart Engineering: Innovative moisture measurement of screed by digital sensors

Penkert

Glock

2020

Civil Engineering Design

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The advancing digitalization is changing almost all areas of society and drives rapid innovation. The construction industry provides many fields of application with numerous opportunities for improvement of efficiency. Accordingly, there are chances and threats caused by digital change at present. The main challenge is the extreme wide range of topics and tasks in all phases of the value chain-development, design, construction, and operation-concerning hardware and software. The aim of this study is to evaluate, if digital sensors can be helpful for an enhanced construction. In a first study for an application field, the authors pointed out the moisture content of structures, because this is a comparatively clear but also crucial point in construction process. In specific, a new digital sensor system for the moisture measurement in screed is being developed and evaluated. The achieved results show general feasibility of digital sensors to improve the construction process and motivate for further studies in this research field.

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Section: Digitalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Engineering: Innovative moisture measurement of screed by digital sensors

Penkert

Glock

2020

Civil Engineering Design

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“…During the last decade the construction of energy efficient buildings centred around two strategies: firstly, the installation of highly efficient energy recovery systems and secondly, the use of passive design solutions to improve the efficiency of building façades. For example, optimizing buildings shape or improving insulation materials for façades and windows, however, this static design concept cannot be sufficient to achieve environmental sustainability targets [1]. This is based on the fact that the limitation of static façades to how much energy savings can be achieved as they are incapable of interacting with the outdoor conditions which would benefit the indoor environment consistently, as well as give building users the ability to modify the building façades to meet their needs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is based on the fact that the limitation of static façades to how much energy savings can be achieved as they are incapable of interacting with the outdoor conditions which would benefit the indoor environment consistently, as well as give building users the ability to modify the building façades to meet their needs. With seasonal variability, and changing of weather patterns, static façades cannot provide consistent climate control [1].…”

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confidence: 99%

Responsive Façades Design Using Nanomaterials for Optimizing Buildings’ Energy Performance

Aziz

Abdelall

2021

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) buildings and construction sector globally is showing an increase in both emissions and energy use, limited progress on new and existing policies, and a further slowdown in energy-efficiency investment growth. In the meantime, 40-60% of all energy used in buildings is affected by the design and construction of building façades therefore, considering sustainable strategies for energy efficiency of building façades are very important. Responsive façades can improve buildings' energy performance as they create an adaptive environmental filter around the buildings with the ability to interact with the outdoor conditions. New building façades materials and technologies are needed to encourage construction towards nearly zero-energy buildings. For this reason, the construction industry recently started combined the use of nanomaterial with conventional building material. These adaptive nanomaterials can be integrated into buildings' responsive façades, based on the specific material properties that can be modulated. To vary their solar properties (transmission, absorption and reflection coefficients) as well as their heat transfer (thermal conductivity). This research presents a comprehensive overview of responsive façades detention and classification through novel information focused on the systems which use active nanomaterials to enhance buildings' energy efficiency.

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“…Solutions for using natural plants and natural solar energy are sought to create zero energy buildings [8], [9]. Designing new objects based on green facades [1], [10] and photovoltaics [11] reduces overheating of cities through natural shading and transpiration cooling [12], [13].…”

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confidence: 99%

Use of aluminium and glass facades in urban architecture

Górka

2020

Bud-Arch

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As an element of structural and material solutions, aluminium and glass façades are the mainstay of urban architecture; they are especially used in public utility buildings. The article provides a review of architectural styles and trends of the 20th century, when exterior elevations began to take the form of aluminium and glass façades. It illustrates the main architectural trends of urban architecture in the 20th century and their evolution throughout the years. Furthermore, it specifies and refers to the architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries in Kraków and presents selected public utility buildings which have become an integral part of architecture in this city.

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Adaptive Facades, Developed with Innovative Nanomaterials, for a Sustainable Architecture in the Mediterranean Area

Cited by 26 publications

References 8 publications

Smart Engineering: Innovative moisture measurement of screed by digital sensors

Smart Engineering: Innovative moisture measurement of screed by digital sensors

Responsive Façades Design Using Nanomaterials for Optimizing Buildings’ Energy Performance

Use of aluminium and glass facades in urban architecture

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