Building Insulating Materials from Agricultural By-Products: A Review

Cascone, Santi Maria; Cascone, Stefano; Vitale, Matteo

doi:10.1007/978-981-32-9868-2_26

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“…The construction industry is among the largest consumers of energy consumption and natural resources (i.e., energy, water, materials, and land) and buildings significantly contribute to CO 2 emission, leading to adverse impacts on the built environment [1,2]. Therefore, construction professionals have adopted new methods, technologies, and implementation options for designing green buildings to reduce environmental impacts, save the Earth's resources, reduce costs, and make contributions to occupants' health and comfort [3,4].…”

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Digital Technologies and Sustainability Assessment: A Critical Review on the Integration Methods between BIM and LEED

Cascone

2023

Sustainability

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In the context of sustainable development and parametric design, it is interesting to analyze the possible synergies between Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), the most-used certification scheme for the design, construction, and management of green buildings, and Building Information Modeling (BIM), which supports the supply, integration, and management of information throughout the building life cycle. This paper aims to review the state of the art of the different integration methods between LEED and BIM at the early design phase. Third-party software information exchange, the cloud-BIM approach, and plug-in development using application program interface (API) were considered as possible integration strategies to automate LEED certification by BIM. In addition, optimization models and rule-based methods were analyzed. Finally, a critical review on the limitations, advantages and future research developments in LEED and BIM integration was clearly defined. Although the development of plug-ins was the most powerful integration method, it requires advanced informatics knowledge. On the other hand, using third-party tools increased manual working and checking due to interoperability issues. A visual programming language (VPL) can allow designers and researchers without any informatics knowledge to create parametric BIM models by including LEED requirements.

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Digital Technologies and Sustainability Assessment: A Critical Review on the Integration Methods between BIM and LEED

Cascone

2023

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“…As the concept in the sustainable housing context is still relatively new, the discipline of designing sustainable housing is correspondingly new. In the past, in many contexts, there have been similarities between efficient housing and sustainable housing [7].…”

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Lessons from the World Sustainable Housing (Past Experiences, Current Trends, and Future Strategies)

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Almssad²

2022

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The term vernacular architecture is widely accepted by architects and derives from the Latin “VERNACULUS”, which means “domestic, native, indigenous”, local. So vernacular architecture designates the entire culture built from a particular place. In modern housing design, the inheritance and development of traditional architectural culture is reflected in the inheritance of classic architectural forms and craftsmanship and the rational application of traditional building systems. With the progress of social civilization and the improvement of technological level, various innovative building systems emerge in an endless stream and are widely used in modern housing design. In today’s rapid social and economic development, housing changes are coming quickly, sometimes even seeming a bit rough. At present, more attention is paid to the construction of new residential areas. As far as the field of urban architecture is concerned, the human settlement environment can be understood explicitly as people’s living and living environment. Today architects need to design a settlement that balances all social functions between meeting current needs and future development, designing energy and material-saving buildings, so that it is in harmony with the environment, and is conducive to the physical and mental health of the human body. In other words, the planning process requires attention to human behavior, psychology, emotions, and interpersonal relationships.

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“…For these reasons, natural and bio-based thermal insulation materials play 2 of 18 an important role in this challenge because of their influence on the energy required to maintain desired interior temperatures and their environmental impact on the embodied energy of the building [5][6][7]. The use of bio-based materials allows us to achieve some important aims [8][9][10][11][12]:…”

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A Bio-Based Render for Insulating Agglomerated Cork Panels

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Natural and bio-based thermal insulation materials play an important role in the lifecycle impact of buildings due to their influence on the amount of energy used in indoor temperature control and the environmental impact of building debris. Among bio-based materials, cork is widespread in the Mediterranean region and is one of the bio-based materials that is most frequently used as thermal insulation for buildings. A particular problem is the protection of the cork-agglomerated panels from external stress and adverse weather conditions; in fact, cork granulates are soft and, consequently, cork panels could be damaged by being hit or by excessive sun radiation. In this study, an innovative external coat for cork-agglomerated panels made of a blending composite of beeswax and rosin (colophony) is proposed. The performance of this composite, using different amounts of elements, was analysed to discover which mix led to the best performance. The mix of 50% beeswax and 50% rosin exhibited the best performance out of all the mixes. This blend demonstrated the best elongation and the lowest fracture density, characteristics that determine the durability of the coating. A performance comparison was carried out between cork panel samples coated with lime render and beeswax–rosin coating. The coating of beeswax and resin highlighted a detachment value about 3.5 times higher than the lime plaster applied on the side of the cork.

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Building Insulating Materials from Agricultural By-Products: A Review

Cited by 16 publications

References 24 publications

Digital Technologies and Sustainability Assessment: A Critical Review on the Integration Methods between BIM and LEED

Digital Technologies and Sustainability Assessment: A Critical Review on the Integration Methods between BIM and LEED

Lessons from the World Sustainable Housing (Past Experiences, Current Trends, and Future Strategies)

A Bio-Based Render for Insulating Agglomerated Cork Panels

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