The International Scientific Committee (ISC) and the
Organizing Committee (OC) of ICGC 2019 would like to invite you to
participate and submit contributions relevant to the followings topics;
however issues are not limited to them:
1. Circular Economy0ne
of the actions proposed by the European Union for implantation of
Circular Economy underlines the use of waste as secondary raw materials
(SRMs). This initiative will give a second life to waste that is
initially destined for landfills. Likewise, this will reduce the
consumption of natural resources, save energy, reduce materials costs
and waste dumping.
This Topic includes:
- Recycled aggregates (RA)
- Construction and demolition waste (CDW)
- Recycled concrete aggregate (RCA)
- Mixed recycled aggregate (MRA)
- Recycled masonry aggregate (RMA)
- Non-conforming fly ash (Nc-FA) from coal-fired power plants
- Bottom ash as fine aggregate
- Biomass fly ash and biomass bottom ash
- Recovery filler (RF) from hot-mix asphalt (HMA) plants
- Recycled mining waste (RMW)
- Recycled steel slags
- Environmental risks of recycled aggregate concrete
- Electric arc furnace dust (EAFD)
2. New Trends in Thermal Insulation for Energy Efficient Buildings DesignThermal
insulation of the building envelope is a key aspect to reduce energy
consumption and CO2 emissions of the construction sector. Studies on
new energy efficient materials and innovative construction solutions
aimed at design of Zero Energy Buildings are welcome.
This Topic includes:
- Energy balances in buildings and modeling predictive control
- New energy efficient building materials
- Efficient construction systems
- New materials in buildings and their impact on the energy consumption
- Building envelope materials and structure energy performance
- Life cycle energy efficiency of buildings and embodied energy
- Bioclimatic and ecological architecture
- Monitoring and analysis of environmental contaminant
- Sustainable city and regional development
3. Energy Source and Renewable EnergyOne
of the most important engineering problems at present is the growing
consumption of energy in the world and its influence on the environment
and climate change. Use of Renewable Energy and more efficient systems
will allow to reduce this impact.
This Topic includes:
- Energy sources
- Renewable energy: wind power, solar energy, hydroelectricity, biomass, geothermal...
- Energy storage
- Energy saving
- Sustainable and efficient energy systems
- Heating, ventilation and air conditioner (HVAC) systems
- Domestic hot water (DHW) systems
- Policy and energy market
- Smart buildings
- Energy conversion systems
- Waste valorisation to energy
- Renewable energy investments
- Environmental protection technologies
- Bio-energy systems
- Clean production
4. Advanced Construction MaterialsToday,
the new construction materials are addressing aspects such as high
strength and durability properties, alkaline activation,
photocatalysis, self-cleaning and increased CO2 capture.
This Topic includes:
- Advanced construction materials
- High perfomance concrete
- Carbon capture and storage
- Photocatalysis and self-cleaning materials.
- Alkali-activated cement and concrete
5. Clean EnvironmentAs
reported in many publications, improvements in buildings aiming to
reduction of energy consumption, could result in decreasing of
microclimate parameters. Therefore in times of high airtightness
of constructions as well as not sufficient maintenance of HVAC systems,
it is necessary to pay much more attention for solutions allowing to
keep a proper level of indoor air parameters, especially in home and
work environment, places were people spend most of their time.
This Topic includes:
- Monitoring of indoor air quality (IAQ) parameters
- Air pollution and control
- Emission sources
- Modelling
- Healthy homes
- Best practices for IAQ contractors
- Interaction between pollutants
- Outdoor versus indoor environmental pollution
- Ventilation and airtightness
- Health aspects of IAQ
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