Smart Architecture – A Sustainable Approach for Transparent Building Components Design

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Bio-Tech Retrofitting to Create a Smart-Green University

“…Some actuators and electronic models are distributed through the material to develop its material properties; so it would be able to respond to the changes happening around them and interact with them [17]. Example: Self-healing polymer material; when a crack propagates through the material, one of the most effective approaches is to consolidate microcapsules that are filled with a healing agent fluid, polymerization of the healing agent is activated by contact with an embedded catalyst, so the crack faces are bonded [18].…”

Utilizing Smart Systems to Enhance the Sustainability of Egyptian Administrative Buildings

“…In one sense, the administrative sectors consume many natural resources, including land, raw materials, water, and energy [14,15]. Furthermore, construction industry processes generate large amounts of noise, pollution, and solid waste [2]. The continuity and permanence of energy and water waste in buildings make them an important environmental and economic issue [16,17].…”

“…During the last decade of the twentieth century, smart architecture was associated with advanced building technology [1,2]. The phrase "smart building" has become a synonym for many buildings characterized by highly sophisticated technology, regardless of whether the building has the fundamental elements and smart systems that allow it to be classified as such [3].…”

Transparent and Flexible Photo‐Driven Smart Window Display Displayed by Near‐Infrared Laser

“…In particular, smart windows enable an efficient energy consumption in the architecture, industry, and transportation fields by controlling the transmittance of sunlight and can be used in various applications in daily life, including privacy protection devices and eye protection glasses. [1][2][3][4] Smart windows can be classified into head-up displays, chromic displays, suspended particle displays, and polymer/liquid-crystal composite films, according to the driving method. [5][6][7] Recently, smart windows have been used not only for lighting control or energy saving (e.g., curtains), but also as light-blocking screens by integrating them with a transparent organic light-emitting diode substrate, [8] or as a display by forming an electrochromic pixel for color change in only a part of the substrate.…”