New Materials for Energy-efficient Building Envelopes
Chair: Roberto Garay Martinez, Tecnalia, Spain
Performance assessment of advanced materials in architectural envelopes
- Material science vs application-based research
- Non-expected behavior
- Full scale dynamic assessment methods
Roberto Garay Martinez, Sustainable Construction Division, Tecnalia, Spain
Investigations on vacuum insulation panels based on medium sized powders
- Manufacturing of vacuum insulation panels with powder cores
- Thermal performance as function of temperature, gas pressure and time
- Cost/performance evaluation and comparison of vacuum insulation panels
Roland Capps, VA-q-Tec, Germany
Aerogel: a sustainable manufacture for building application
- Importance of manufacturing process on final application
- Aerogels in construction
- Future trends and opportunities
Francisco Ruiz, KEEY Aerogel, France
Hygro-thermal performance assessment of prefabricated hemp-concrete walls
- Experimental assessment of hemp-concrete walls
- Coupled heat and moisture numerical simulation of hemp-concrete in real conditions
- Use of bio based materials in buildings
Timea Bejat, CEA-Ines, France
Making thermal insulation adaptive
- Unwanted heat trapping as a side effect of insulation
- Making u-values switchable
- A need for novel building control strategies
Nikolaus Nestle, BASF SE Advanced Materials and Systems, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Aerogel insulation in refurbishment
- Review on aerogel material insulation possibilities
- Properties of different aerogel insulation material configurations in retrofit applications
- Optimum material definition for existing buildings
Michal Ganobjak, Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
12:30 Lunch