Sustainable Development of Urban Environment and Building Material

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).These peer-reviewed papers record the invaluable researches of the authors in the fields of innovation in structural system and disaster prevention in engineering structures, architectural innovation, sustainable development of buildings and the environment and innovations in, and applications of, building materials.

Hot topics and state-of-the-art view related to sustainable development in civil engineering are presented.Four volumes contain the proceedings of ICTAS 2011, the fourth International Conference on Technology of Architecture and Structure, held in September in Xi'an, China.

Arrangement of papers is in sections on the following themes: sustainable utilization of building energy and resources; ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration technology; sanitary equipment and systems; water purification and wastewater treatment; air environment control; environmentally friendly building materials; recycling and reuse of building materials; new technology for the preparation of building materials; and innovative structures.

An index and an author list are included in the fourth volume.