Plenary
Lecture
Sustainability of Buildings
Professor Corneliu Bob
University "Politehnica" of Timisoara
Faculty of Construction
300316 Timisoara, 2 Chopin street
Romania
E-mail:
cbob@mail.dnttm.ro
Abstract:
The lecture deals with some aspects on sustainability of
the new buildings and of strengthened structures.
Buildings and infrastructure generate one third of the
total CO2 emissions. In this respect, the construction
industry can make a significant contribution by going
consuming planning methods. The first part of the
presentation is devoted to the correlation: CO2 emission
– energy saving – environment preservation. The second
part is dealing with the energy incorporated in main
building materials and with the importance of thermal
insulation, air tightness and thermal mass of the
building envelope. For the strengthened structures, the
calculated components of sustainability like total cost
of rehabilitated solution, energy used with raw
materials and consolidation time are presented in the
third part of the present lecture.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Prof. Corneliu
BOB, graduated at the University "Politehnica" of
Timisoara – Romania in 1961 and Ph.D. Civil Engineering
in 1971 at the same University. In 1990 he became
professor of R.C. Structures and Ph.D. – Scientific
Coordinator at the Civil Engineering Faculty in
Timisoara. From 1996 till 2004 he was the Head of the
National Building Research Institute – Timisoara Branch.
Professor Bob has also been very active in the Romanian
Associations for Civil Engineering: National Association
Engineering for Structural Analysis, Bucharest, Romanian
Concrete Commission, Romanian Academy – Material
Science. Member of IABSE since 1992, Prof. Bob became
the member in Permanent Committee, Working Commission
WC-8 and Structural Engineering Document Editorial
Board.
In the last two years he has been involved, with good
results, in the WSEAS activities.
Prof. Bob has had many and major contributions in the
field of Structural Engineering:
(i). He participated as designer at more than 70
structures projects. In the last 15 years his attentions
was paid to the design of the RC prefabricated
structures: 25 structures have been projected and built
up with more than 100000 m2 built surface. An important
contribution of Prof. Bob in this field was in a patent
concerning the "RC prefabricated structures with rigid
nodes".
(ii). A very important field of work was paid to
evaluation and rehabilitation of existing buildings. He
participated at 75 projects of maintenance and
rehabilitation of some important structures affected by
seismic actions, gas explosions as well as time
environmental factors. A very notable contribution is
the "Model of reinforcement corrosion in RC Structures.
(iii). Prof. Bob C. has published 21 books and 250
papers in Journals and Proceedings of National and
International Meetings. The field of interest of works
is: rehabilitation of structures, analysis and design of
structures, durability of buildings, new special
concrete types.
Prof. Corneliu BOB played an important role in
development of assessing of existing structures and in
design of new buildings and he has devoted great energy
in promoting the role of students and young engineers as
designers and researchers.
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