Woodhead Publishing Eco-efficient Materials for Reducing Cooling Needs in Buildings and Construction: Design, Properties and Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering)

Product Description Eco-efficient Materials for Reducing Cooling Needs in Buildings and Construction: Design, Properties and Applications provides a comprehensive review on building envelope materials and technologies for reducing cooling needs in buildings. The book offers in-depth analysis of the performance of new innovative materials and technologies used in pavements, facade and roofing materials, PCMs and chromogenic smart materials. Includes practical case study examples of their applications in building and construction. The book is an essential reference resource for researchers, architects and civil engineers, city planners, product developers, manufacturers, and other professionals working in eco-efficient cooling materials and sustainable and zero-energy building design. Review Offers a comprehensive review of new eco-efficient building envelope materials and innovative technologies for reducing cooling needs About the Author F.Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at C-TAC Research Centre, University of Minho. He holds the Counsellor title of the Portuguese Engineers Association. Authored almost 350 publications some that were cited by Highly Cited authors (SCI h-index>60) and in high impact factor journals like Nature Reviews Mat. (IF=52), Nature Energy (IF=47), Progress in Mater. Science (I.F=24), Physics Reports (IF=20) and Nature Climate Change (I.F=19). Citations received in ISI WoS journals-2819 (h-index=29), citations received in Scopus journals- 3580 (h-index=31). Citations prediction for the year 2029 (around 5.500 citations on WoS, 7.500 on Scopus (already has 7000 MR, h=45) and 16.000 citations on scholar google). Member of the editorial board of 9 international journals, 4 referenced on the Web of Science and three referenced on Scopus. Grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 14 countries, UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, UA.Emirates, Poland and also the EU Commission. Invited reviewer for 133 international journals for which he reviewed so far almost 900 papers. Lead Editor of 19 international books (9 being on the Master Book List of Web of Science). Prof. Lech Czarnecki PhD, D.Sc. – is the Scientific Secretary of Building Research Institute, ITB, former the Head of the Building Materials Engineering Department of (1981-2011) and the Vice-Rector for academic affairs ( 2002 – 2005 ) of Warsaw University of Technology. He was the President of International Congress on Polymers in Concrete (2006-2011). Professor was awarded “for eminent activities in new frontiers of building materials engineering by the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of Japan in 2009 and “for distinguished service and leadership in the field of polymers in concrete Owen Nutt Award in 2004.Author of more than 250 publications and Department editor of Bulletin of Polish Academy Science Technical Science. Chemical engineer from the Institut Químic de Sarrià in 1992, industrial engineer from University Ramon Llull in 1993, master in industrial business management in 1995, and doctor industrial engineer in 1996 from the same university. Post-doctoral researcher at the Eastern Regional Research Center (ARS, USDA) in Philadelphia, USA between 1996 and 1998. Since 1999 at the University of Lleida, where she created the research group GREA Innovació Concurrent, recognized as a SGR group in 2004 (today GREiA 2017SGR1537), TECNIO group in 2007 and with international prestige in the field of thermal energy storage. From 2014 to 2018, she was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environmental, School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster. She has published more than 350 indexed articles and participated in more than 250 conferences. She has co-edited 5 research books and is the author of one, in addition to publishing 15 book chapters. She has participated or coord