The continuous growth of building energy consumption and carbon emissions has
aggravated the balance between environment and energy, in which building heating and …

Due to urbanization, most people want to live in a sophisticated ambiance in this modern
age. Consequently, they have ready to spend massive investment on improving their …

In the past decades the construction sector experienced the diffusion of a wide variety of
complex building envelope components and passive elements and strategies, characterized …

The lighter weight, improved thermal properties and better acoustic insulation of hollow-core
concrete blocks are few of the characteristics that one encounters when comparing them to …

Hollow-core concrete blocks constitute the main method of construction for vertical walls in
Lebanon where almost all walls are masonry and use the same block shape. The detailed …

Hollow concrete blocks can be thermally improved either by modifying their cavities shapes
or by adding insulation materials into these cavities. It is also possible to improve the thermal …

Concern for unsustainable buildings has obliged the global construction industry to embrace
energy-efficient building envelope. In Mauritius, building insulation like the eco-block …

For nearly 50 years, cellular blocks were the exclusive concrete masonry units in the
Mauritian construction industry. This particular block is used in building construction projects …

Permeation of heat into the school building enclosure through external walls components of
the building resulting into the numerous consequences which causes unhealthy indoor …

Investigation of mechanical properties and thermal behavior of expanded polystyrene
concrete (EPS) and exfoliated vermiculite (EV) concrete has been accomplished in this …