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Afternoon, Session Block B2

14:00 Eco-materials for the Building Skin

Chair: Mike Lawrence, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Building envelope with low environmental impact

  • Bio-based zero carbon insulating panel
  • New-build or retrofit?
  • Pre-fabricated - zero defect and low installation costs

Mike Lawrence, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Wood as eco-material for the building skin

  • Importance of the building skin
  • Sustainability – between magic word and approach
  • Woodies – not only for the building skin

Xaver Egger, Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Traditional and modern surfaces for wooden facades

  • Japanese surface technology "shou sugi ban"
  • KDS pressure impregnated wood
  • Surface treatments

Hansueli Schmid, Lignum, Zürich, Switzerland

Producing solar control devices from waste materials

  • Potential of waste as façade material
  • Students' awareness on household waste and sustainability
  • Mitigating the lack of solar control in Spanish schools

Oriol Pons, UPC, Barcelona, Spain

Brief Presentations

Recycled industrial waste for sustainable façade panels

Raúl Briones Llorente, Universidad de Burgos, Spain

Properties of straw bale blocks for wall construction

Katrin Schollbach, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Bio-based recyclable, reshapable, repairable fiber-reinforced composites for window profiles

Arsenio Navarro, AIMPLAS, Paterna, Spain

15:30 Coffee Break