Materials for Sustainable Building – Page 10

Federal Sustainability Requirements and LEED NC & LEED EBOM

Boggiano J., Everblue Training Institute, US

The session begins with an overview of federal requirements for sustainability. Executive Order (EO) 13423 established requirements for sustainability in 2007, while EO 13514 expanded upon that framework in October 2009. Participants will learn about [...]

Passive Solar Design of Buildings – a Case Study

Kumar S., Bansal M., GZS College of Engineering & Technology, IN

Passive solar technologies are means of using sunlight for useful energy without use of active mechanical systems, as contrasted to active solar techniques. Such technologies convert sunlight into usable heat in the form of water, [...]

Green Building a Step Toward Energy Conservation: An Overview

Bansal M., Giani Zail Singh College of Engineering & Technology, Bathinda, Punjab, INDIA, IN

This paper highlights the situations for better understanding of the concept of green building for significant environmental, economic and social benefits regarding energy conservation. Commercial building or non-green building are responsible for usage of considerable [...]

Green Building & Construction

Green Building visions in historical Arab cities, case study of Al-Jazirah Al-Hamrah-Northern UAE

Al-Farraj A., UAE University, AE

With the oil discovery during 1960s, and the initiation of the UAE in 1972, most of old house and building has been replaced with modern building. Al-Jazirah Al-Hamrah in the Northern UAE, the only historical [...]

Recovery of High Quality Aggregate from Concrete Waste using Pulsed Power Technology

I’izasa S., Shigeishi M., Namihira T., Kumamoto University, JP

In Japan, the most of waste concrete scraps have been eused as roadbed materials and the recycling ratio of waste concrete scraps has been kept over 95 % from 2000. However, it is expected that [...]

Clean Technology Requires a Systems Approach

Kralj D., ART-K, BusinessConsulting, SI

The challenge of addressing climate change in the context of moving society towards the environmental, economic and social goals of sustainability requires radical innovation of cleaner technologies and processes which meet individual and social needs [...]

A Study on Design Technologies and load analysis for Sustainable Army Barracks

Park C., Cho W., Kim B., Yonsei University, KR

Purpose of this study is embody the environmental-friendly military facility model that applied renewable energy, passive design method and high efficiency equipment. In the introduction of this study, defined problem of existing military facility and [...]

Efficiency’s Last Frontier: Reflective Building Surfaces

Wiig H.C., State of Hawaii Energy Office, US

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory scientists hold that if the world’s urban areas were highly reflective, global warming would be delayed by eleven years. However, America’s building energy codes do not cite reflective surfaces as key paths [...]

Mechanical Properties of PLA-Jute Composites by Using Natural Rubber and Epoxidized Natural Rubber as Impact Modifiers : Effect of Molding Technique

Ruksakulpiwat Y., Tonimit P., Kluengsamrong J., Suranaree University of Technology, TH

Jute fiber was used as a reinforcing fiber in poly (lactic acid) (PLA) composites. Natural rubber (NR) and epoxidized natural rubber (ENR) are used as impact modifiers of jute-PLA composite. The composite specimens were prepared [...]