Sustainable Building Material...

over-consumption of energy, different kinds of pollution, over-construction, which are incurring serious climate change and global warming. The replacement on the Millenium Development Goals to 17 sustainable development goals also alerted people to concern about how to make a better environment in a sustainable way under a high density urban city, where there are constructions contributed to this community. Especially in hotel industry, a surge of travelers leaded to the increase of hotel, which required…

Concrete is known for being an enticing building material because of its economic availability. While steel and wood can be expensive, reinforced concrete has consistently proven to be cheaper and efficient. When forms go beyond rigid structure, reinforced concrete provides the next level of opportunities blurring the line between structure and architecture. This gray zone is where the capabilities of structural art falls. Within reinforced concrete building, pre-fabricated systems link the desire…

The building industry has long been overpowered by the use of a select number of construction materials, largely concrete, masonry and steel. In more recent times however, an increased emphasis has been placed on environmental sustainability within the architectural realm and as a result, cross laminated timber (CLT) is becoming a more prominent building material due to its design flexibility, cost-competiveness, structural integrity and most importantly, its sustainable attributes. CLT was firstly…

ABSTRACT Latest innovations have developed new materials and better technologies in the field of construction. The need of the hour is the replacement of costly and scarce conventional building materials by innovative, cost effective and environment friendly alternate building materials. Here we see about the Insulating concrete forms (ICF) Fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) Structural insulated panels (SIP) By implementing these technologies gives birth to many sub level new engineering…

Sustainable building Introduction As concerns of climate change and global warming rises, reducing the impact on environment and human health have became the priorities to consider before the construction of buildings. Therefore, the concept of sustainable building (also known as green building, green construction)was brought up, aiming to create structures which is environmentally responsible and source-efficient during its lifespan. [1] Compared to conventional buildings, sustainable buildings…

“Buildings consume more resources than necessary, negatively impact the environment, and generate a large amount of waste.” U.S. Department of Energy, 2003 The challenge, today, is to build intelligently, so that buildings use a minimum of non-renewable resources and produce a minimum of pollution and wastes, while increasing the well-being of the occupants. This paper is an effort to understand the importance of building materials’ selection in sustainable design and the place of traditional…

Rie Takemoto The pros and cons of various building material Sustainable building material In general, Sustainable building materials are considered to have a lower impact on the environment and health issues. These include using locally produced materials, such as utilizing Recyclable resources from building sites and manufactured waste materials. Other sustainable building materials include minimising the amount of embodied energy put through into the duration…

Is bamboo a sustainable alternative building material for light weight construction in Southeast Asia? 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background of the study Concrete, brick, wood and steel are the prominent materials used for construction around the world. However, due to the high expenses of steel and timber, researches have been made to discover a new alternative for these materials with a lower and more economic cost. Bamboo is becoming more and more popular as building materials in the construction…

Materials for Low Impact Buildings ARC 6821 Elena Constanti Number of words: 3002 CONTENTS Introduction 3 Chapter 1: Sheffield 1.1. Site Location and specification 4…

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Concrete is a material that widely used in the construction as a primary materials for buildings and also special structures for special purposes, such as nuclear reactors or chimneys. It is possibly exposed to an unexpected fire of extreme temperatures. As the concrete had been used for a special purpose, there is increasing of risk of exposing it to a high temperatures. The physical properties such as colour and mechanical properties such as strength…