Nano and Biotech Based Materials for Energy Building Efficiency

Demonstrating how higher energy efficiency in new and existing buildings can help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, this book details how new technologies, manufacturing processes and products can serve to abate emissions from the energy sector and offer a cost effective way to improve competitiveness and drive employment.

Maximizing reader insights into how nano and biotech materials – such as aerogel based plasters, thermochromic glazings and thermal energy adsorbing glass, amongst others – can provide high energy efficiency performance in buildings, this book will give practitioners in the field an important high tech tool to tackle key challenges and is essential reading for civil engineers, architects, materials scientists and researchers in the field of the sustainability of the built environment.

• ISBN: 978-3-319-27503-1
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 03/04/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés