Smart Buildings - Advanced Materials Nanotechnology to Improve Energy Efficiency

Informationen zum Autor Prof. Marco Casini is a leading academic in the Green and Smart Building sector with more than 25 years’ experience in Building Sciences. He is an environmental engineer with a PhD in environmental engineering and is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning, Design and Technology of Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he also teaches in several Masters, PhD, and Graduate schools on subjects pertaining to energy and environmental sustainability for buildings. His area of expertise concerns sustainable architectural design and construction, focusing on advanced materials, technologies, and strategies for smart buildings and smart cities. His professional activities include international scientific and technical consultancy on technological, environmental, and energy aspects related to the design and construction of high-performance buildings, as well as training on Green Building and Smart Cities strategies and policy-making for public authorities.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I SMART BUILDINGS
1. Designing the third Millennium's buildings
2. Advanced materials for architecture
Part II SMART INSULATION
3. Building Insulating materials
4. Advanced insulating materials
5. Phase Change Materials (PCMs)
6. Advanced building skin
Part III SMART WINDOWS
7. Advanced Insulation Glazing
8. Light and solar control glazing and systems
9. Dynamic glazing
10. Energy generating glazing

Product details

• Authors: Marco Casini, Marco (Faculty of Architecture Casini, Marco (Professor of Architecture Technolog Casini, Marco (Professor of Architecture Technology and of Environmental Certification of Buildings Casini, Casini Marco
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780081009727
• ISBN: 978-0-08-100972-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Nanotechnology & MEMS, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, Nanotechnology, Building construction & materials, Building construction and materials