Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories

Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories provides a comprehensive collection of the most relevant and forward-looking research in the field of façade design and construction today, with a focus on both product and process innovation. The book brings together the expertise, creativity, and critical thinking of more than fifty global innovators from both academia and industry, to guide the reader in translating research into practice. It identifies new opportunities for the construction sector to respond to present challenges, towards a more sustainable, efficient, connected, and safe future. Introduces the reader to the role of façades with respect to the main challenges ahead; Provides an overview of the major façade technological advancements throughout history and identifies prospective research trajectories; Includes interviews with key industry players from different backgrounds and expertise; Showcases a comprehensive range of leading research topics in the field, organised by product and process innovation; Covers major innovations across the value chain including façade design, fabrication, construction, operation and maintenance, and end-of-life; Contributes towards the definition of an international research agenda and identifies emerging market opportunities for the façade industry. INDICE: 1. Façade Innovation: Past, Present, Future 2. Façade Innovation: An Industry Perspective Part A: Product Innovation 3. New and Innovative Cool Coatings for Urban Overheating Mitigation through Façades 4. The Pursuit of Transparency 5. Advanced Fenestration: Technologies, Performance, and Building Integration 6. Embedding Intelligence to Control Adaptive Building Envelope 7. Biomimetic Adaptive Building Skins: Design and Performance 8. Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façades: Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovations 9. Unitised Timber Envelopes: The Future Generation of Industrialised, High-Performance, Sustainable Façades for Construction Decarbonisation 10. Industrialised Building Envelopes for Renovation: Realizing the Potential to Decarbonise the European Building Stock 11. Vertical Farming on Façades: Transforming Building Skins for Urban Food Security 12. Interactive Media Façades: Research Prototypes, Application Areas, and Future Directions Part B: Process Innovation 13. The Building Envelope: Failing to Understand Complexity in Tall Building Design 14. Resilience by Design: Building Façades for Tomorrow 15. Inverse Design for Advanced Building Envelope Materials, Systems, and Operation 16. Towards Automated Design: Knowledge Based Engineering in Façades 17. Additive Manufacturing in Skin Systems: Trends and Future Perspectives 18. Mass-Customization as the Convergent Vision for the Digital Transformation of the Manufacturing and the Building Industry 19. Automation and Robotic Technologies in the Construction Context: Research Experience in Prefabricated Façade Modules 20. Life Cycle Assessment in Façade Design 21. Circular Economy in Façades 22. Façades-as-a-Service: A Business and Supply-Chain Model for the Implementation of a Circular Façade Economy

• ISBN: 978-0-12-822477-9
• Editorial: Woodhead Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 594
• Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés