Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies

by Fernando Pacheco-Torgal (Editor), Claes Goran-Granqvist (Editor)

Overview

Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies analyzes several scenarios and proposes various adaptation strategies for climate emergencies (heat waves, wildfires, floods, and storms). Divided into three themes, the book offers an organized vision of a complex and multi-factor challenge. It covers climatic resilience and building refurbishment, implications for service life prediction and maintainability, and climate adaptation in the maintenance and management of buildings. Sections cover infrastructure materials, climate emergency adaptation and building adaptation to heat waves, wildfires, floods and storms.

The book will be an essential reference resource for civil and structural engineers, architects, planners, designers and other professionals who have an interest in the adaptation of the built environment against climate change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323953368
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	02/24/2023
Series:	Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering
Pages:	430
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Dr. F. Pacheco-Torgal is a principal investigator at the University of Minho, in Portugal. He currently holds the title of Counsellor from the Portuguese Engineers Association and has authored more than 300 publications. He is a member of the editorial boards for 9 international journals. He has acted as a foreign expert in the evaluation of 30 PhD theses. In the last 10 years he has been a Member of the Scientific Committee for almost 60 conferences most of them in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. He has also been an invited reviewer for 125 international journals and has reviewed almost 1200 papers and has been the lead editor of 27 books.

Claes Goran-Granqvist is Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at Uppsala University, Sweden. Professor Granqvist's research is focused on optical and electrical properties of materials, especially thin films for energy efficiency and solar energy utilization. He has published around 730 research papers in mostly refereed journals, over 30 books, had invited conference presentations at about 250 international conferences and chaired about 30 international meetings.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change

PART 1 RISK ASSESSMENT AND SCENARIOS OF CLIMATIC RESILIENCE 2. A framework for risk assessment of climate change 3. Scenarios for urban resilience - Perspective on climate change resilience at the end of the 21st century of a PV-powered mixed-use energy community in two European capitals. 4. Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies

PART 2 CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADAPTATION OF INFRASTRUCTURES 5. Climate resilient transportation infrastructures in coastal cities 6. Climate change risks and bridge design 7. Resilience of concrete infrastructures 8. Challenges Around Climate Resilience on Transportation Infrastructures 9. A Worldwide Survey of Concrete Service Life in Various Climate Zones 10. Effect of Global Warming on Chloride Resistance of Concrete: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China

PART 3 BUILDING ADAPTATION TO HEAT WAVES AND FLOODS 11. Resilient cooling of buildings to protect against heat waves 12. Climate change and building performance - Pervasive role of climate change on residential building behavior in different climates 13. Climate-responsive architectural and urban design strategies for adapting to extreme hot events 14. Resilience of green roofs to climate change 15. Permeable concrete pavements for a climate resilient built environment 16. Building design in the context of climate change and a flood projection for Ankara 17. Amphibious housing as a sustainable flood resilient solution  18. Nature-based Solutions and Sponge City for Urban Water Management

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Presents technical solutions for the adaptation of the built environment against climate change