Environmental Profile on Building Material Passports for Hot Climates

Amjad Almusaed, Asaad Almssad, Raad Z. Homod and Ibrahim Yitmen
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Amjad Almusaed: Department of Construction Engineering and Lighting Science, Jönköping University, 551 11 Jönköping, Sweden
Asaad Almssad: Head of Building Technology, Karlstad University Sweden, 651 88 Karlstad, Sweden
Raad Z. Homod: Department of Oil and Gas Engineering, Basrah University for Oil and Gas, Garmat Ali Campus, Basrah 61004, Iraq
Ibrahim Yitmen: Department of Construction Engineering and Lighting Science, Jönköping University, 551 11 Jönköping, Sweden

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-20

Abstract: Vernacular building materials and models represent the construction methods and building materials used in a healthy manner. Local building materials such as gravel, sand, stone, and clay are used in their natural state or with minor processing and cleaning to mainly satisfy local household needs (production of concrete, mortar, ballast, silicate, and clay bricks and other products). In hot climates, the concept of natural building materials was used in a form that can currently be applied in different kinds of buildings. This concept depends on the proper consideration of the climate characteristics of the construction area. A material passport is a qualitative and quantitative documentation of the material composition of a building, displaying materials embedded in buildings as well as showing their recycling potential and environmental impact. This study will consider two usages of building materials. The first is the traditional use of building materials and their importance in the application of vernacular building strategies as an essential global bioclimatic method in sustainable architecture. The second is the affordable use of new building materials for their availability and utilization by a large part of society in a way to add more detail to research. The article aims to create an objective reading and analysis regarding specific building materials in order to generate a competent solution of materials that is suitable for building requirements in hot climates. This study evaluates the most suitable Building Material Passports needed in hot climates, where the environmental profile must be analyzed to confirm the use of natural materials.

Keywords: building materials; vernacular building; environmental design; ecological building materials (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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