Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies (Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering) - Tapa blanda

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Fernando Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at C-TAC, University of Minho. He holds the title of Counsellor (Top 0.5%) from the Portuguese Engineers Association and has been consistently recognized as a Scopus Highly Cited Scientist in the global rankings by Stanford University. With over 300 publications to his name, he has carried out in-depth peer reviews of more than one thousand scientific papers and assessed nearly one hundred research grant proposals across 15 countries. He serves on the editorial boards of nine international journals and has been involved in editorial decisions for several hundred manuscripts. In addition, he has edited 33 international books, many of which are available in the libraries of prestigious institutions such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.

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.

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Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies provides a framework through analysis of 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 maintenance and management of buildings; Infrastructure materials and 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 and designers, and other professionals with an interest in adaptation of the built environment against climate change.