Overview
- Highlights recent advances in building engineering with case studies
- Discusses the design and construction of sustainable and regenerative buildings
- Serves as a useful resource for researchers/students, engineers, architects, and legislators
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 345)
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Table of contents (38 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Building Materials
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Front Matter
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Design and Construction
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Front Matter
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Building Repair and Maintenance
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Keywords
- Plaster mortars
- Polyurethane foams
- Carbon composites
- Regenerative buildings
- Building Information Modelling (BIM)
- Bivalve shells
- Reinforced concrete
- Calcium-Aluminate Cement
- Lime concretes
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Structural Condition Assessment (SCA)
- Building repair and maintenance
- Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP)
- Energy efficiency of buildings
- Green roofs
- Ceramic waste
- Energy consumption of buildings
- Sustainable buildings
About this book
Building engineering is a complex and constantly evolving branch. The needs of the XXI century society cause a constant change in construction industry due to the need to achieve sustainable and ecological buildings. This affects all levels and phases of this engineering. Given this circumstance, numerous researchers turn their efforts to find optimal solutions for building engineering. For this reason, in this book a holistic analysis of building engineering is carried out from the perspectives that have a greater weight for sustainability objectives. The book is divided into 6 sections: (i) Building materials, which deals with research related to the most innovative and sustainable building materials; (ii) Design and construction, which deals with existing methodologies and advances in design and construction in construction sector; (iii) Building repair and maintenance, which deals with building repair, maintenance and upkeep techniques; (iv) Energy efficiency, which analyses thelatest research on the energy efficiency of buildings and their behaviour in the face of climate change; (v) Sustainability, which analyses the establishment of measures to achieve a more sustainable built environment; and (vi) construction management, which compiles the latest studies in the field of Project manager. The 38 chapters of the book together constitute an advance for the topic of building engineering. The aspects covered in the book are of great interest to various sectors, such as researchers, engineers, architects, legislators and interested parties.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Bienvenido-Huertas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Building Construction at the University of Granada. He is Visiting Professor at the University of La Coruña. His area of expertise covers climate change in the building sector, adaptive thermal comfort, heat transfer, fuel poverty, energy conservation measures, and design of nearly zero-energy buildings. He is Author of more than 70 research papers and he is Recognized Reviewer of various international indexed journals.
Joaquín Durán-Álvarez is Associate Professor in the Department of Building Construction at the University of Granada. Building engineer in companies in the sector for more than 20 years. His research area is related to the analysis of scientific production, areas of publication and evolution in the Construction Sector. He is responsible for the Observatory of Construction and the Repository of Building Engineering in Spain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building Engineering Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century
Book Subtitle: Holistic Study from the Perspectives of Materials, Construction, Energy and Sustainability
Editors: David Bienvenido-Huertas, Joaquín Durán-Álvarez
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2714-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-2713-5Published: 25 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-2716-6Due: 25 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-2714-2Published: 24 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2366-2557
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2565
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 739
Number of Illustrations: 77 b/w illustrations, 288 illustrations in colour
Topics: Building Construction and Design, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings, Construction Management, Building Materials, Building Physics, HVAC