16:00 New Materials for the Building Skin

Chair: Oliver Kinnane, Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom

Stone skin – Hyper-light double-layered granite skin with fiber reinforcement
  • Stone construction: from stereotomic mass to thin skin
  • Study of specific morphologies able to increase mechanical strength
  • Load-bearing stone panels with low thickness

Maurizio Barberio, Università degli Studi Roma Tre - Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Hemp concrete wall - a numerical study
  • Hemp concrete on a wall scale
  • Hygrothermal behavior of hemp concrete

Georges Costantine, Groupe de Recherche en Sciences pour l'Ingénieur, Reims, France

Correcting the acoustic absorption of rendered hemp-based walls
  • Hemp-lime's thermal and acoustic performance
  • Acoustic characterization to date has focused on the bulk material
  • Real-world hemp-lime rendered wall typology

Oliver Kinnane, Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom

17:15 End of Conference