Advanced Building Construction and Materials Handbook

The aim of this book is to give details idea about advanced research on building construction and materials. Firstly, we try to start with advances in building technologies and novel technologies and applications for construction materials. Then we move on numerical analysis of the plastering mortars with phase change materials and properties of calcium acetate manufactured with etching waste solution and limestone sludge as a cementitious admixture. We also presents factors inhibiting the use of bamboo in building construction in Ghana and experimental study on the flexural performance of parallel strand bamboo beams In the middle part of the book, we describe controlled release of construction chemicals by encapsulation and alternative binders for increased sustainable construction in Ghana as a guide for building professionals. Then we try to find out the use of materials from biomass as construction materials and experimental and simulated effective dose for some building materials in France. We also focus on the optimisation of direct expansion (DX) cooling coils aiming to building energy efficiency and effect of incorporation of chips and wood dust mahogany on mechanical and acoustic behaviour of brick clay. At the end, we try to develop sustainable high strength concrete mixtures using local materials and recycled concrete an alternative construction material for the exterior walls of passive house. Effectiveness of the top-down nanotechnology in the production of ultrafine cement and utilization of brine sludge in non-structural building components are also described. Lastly, we give an evaluation of the fresh and hardened properties of steel fibre reinforced self-compacting concrete using recycled aggregates as a replacement material.