Innovative Design of Green Building for Harsh Environments
| Author | Binsanad, Adel Jasim | |
|---|---|---|
| metadata.dc.contributor.department | University of Bahrain College of Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering | |
| metadata.dc.date.accessioned | 2026-09-20T15:51:51Z | |
| Publication date | 2018 | |
| Degree level | Doctoral | |
| Abstract | Abstract : This thesis deals with implementing Nanotechnology and Nano innovation technics in construction to face the challenges that are confronted in the building construction industry, ranging from the performance of the materials to environmental and safety issues related to the cost, durability, and consumptions of building materials. The rationalization of the utilization of high quantities of imported cement, imported coarse aggregates and the use of marine sand in the Kingdom of Bahrain, for better quality, economic and environmental performances of the concrete industry. One should put his figures on sustainability and durability aspects of concrete that can improve efficiency, strength, heat transfer, weight, self-consolidation, production cost and mitigate climate effects like corrosion and cracks created by Alkali-Silica Reactivity (ASR). This study provides a constructive approach "Polyforms System" to the green buildings based on the interface between solid mechanics and materials engineering, that is integrated and driven by Nanoengineered concrete and innovative insulated concrete formworks (ICF) designs. Showing how innovation increasingly combines dematerialization, eco-efficiency, advanced computational techniques and experiments methods, for developing new classes of novel products, and to characterize its structural and thermal behaviors, often considered as a substitute of conventional technologies, enabling a new design approach of green buildings. The methodology employed in this study consists of three parts, the first part is the laboratory tests for the optimization of the Nano and EPS concrete. Nano-concrete is structural self-compacting concrete (SCC), incorporated with a nanoparticle (CNCs) that provides and enhance mechanical, chemical, thermal, self-compaction and relaxed delivery properties of the mix with a lightweight density of 1864 kg/m3 . Where as the polystyrene concrete forms the Nano formworks (Blank Block), with a lightweight density of 449 kg/m3, that provides stronger mechanical properties, insulation and zero slumps for easy manufacturing by extrusion. For both types of these nanocomposites, vibration is not required to level off and achieve consolidation, which represents a sustainability issue because it involves a significant energy reduction needed to build concrete structures. The second part involved laboratory tests on the full-scale models of varied steel configurations of ICF slab categories consisting of (12) samples and different geometrical sections with different steel configurations of ICF wall types consisting of (4) samples, plus three samples for the Blank Block. While the third part is the evaluation of the full-scale finite element study of the structural behavior of the Blank Blocks, reinforced ICF slabs and ICF walls models carried out using ANSYS software validated against data obtained experimentally in the second part. As a conclusion, Nano-concrete can be identified as a suitable material to replace the ordinary concrete structurally. The ICF slabs (MSJ category) and ICF walls systems passed the serviceability as well as strength tests. However, the primary function of the Blank Block, acting as formwork during construction over which essential structural slab layer of Nano-concrete shall be applied, is still vailed, provided that a prop at every 1 meter is installed. The Polyforms system conforms to LEED's main standards, as it reduces building weight by up to 50%, electricity consumption by 50%, cost by 22.73% and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 54.03%. This study opens the doors for the civil engineering field to implement and adopt this novel methodology for similar experimental and analytical studies in exploring and developing new composite materials and adding green values to the building constructions industry. | |
| metadata.dc.identifier.other | Drupal node 1252 | |
| metadata.dc.identifier.other | https://digitalrepository.uob.edu.bh/en/dar/innovative-design-green-building-harsh-environments | |
| metadata.dc.identifier.uri | http://165.227.56.122/handle/123456789/7199 | |
| Language | en | |
| Link | https://digitalrepository.uob.edu.bh/en/_flysystem/fedora/2025-05/ilovepdf_merged_38.pdf | |
| Subject | Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Dissertations | |
| Subject | Construction industry -- Environmental aspects -- Dissertations | |
| Subject | Ecological houses -- Dissertations ,Sustainable architecture -- Dissertations | |
| Subject | Sustainable buildings -- Design and construction -- Dissertations | |
| Title | Innovative Design of Green Building for Harsh Environments | |
| Type | Doctoral Dissertation | |
| College | College of Engineering | |
| Department | Electrical and Electronics Engineering |
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