Cost C16, Improving the Quality of Existing Urban Building Envelopes

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Cost C16, Improving the Quality of Existing Urban Building Envelopes is written by Luís Bragança and published by IOS Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1586037374 (ISBN 10) and 9781586037376 (ISBN 13).

As a result of changes in the composition of the population, society changes continuously with respect to various factors including age-structure, family composition and the availability of energy. Changes lead to situations that are reflected in the commissioning of buildings, which is gradually shifted from new construction to the reuse and renovation of existing buildings. The adaptation of buildings often requires the modification of facades and the construction behind. The scope of this action withinthe COST Transport and Urban Development Domain is to improve techniques and methods for envelopes of buildings constructed during the last half of the 20th century in the COST countries. In other words it is directed on the building envelopes of the so-clled non-traditional buildings. This publication is based on a support by COST, an intergovernmental European framework for international cooperation between nationally funded research activities. COST creates scientific networks and enables scientists tocollaborate in a wide spectrum of activities in research and technology.