US-Israel Workshop on Sustainable Buildings: Materials and Energy

这是一个研讨会奖，将于2010年7月12-13日在以色列海法举办美国-以色列可持续建筑：材料和能源研讨会。讲习班将为探索和讨论可持续建筑的长期障碍以及克服这些障碍所需的创新提供工具。研讨会将关注建筑可持续性的两个广泛领域：(1)建筑及其系统的建造和运行中使用的材料，以及(2)建筑材料在维持舒适、健康和高效的室内环境所需能源方面的作用。在每个领域，研讨会将重点介绍材料和系统的开发，以及通过生命周期评估(LCA)有效分析可持续建筑的长期影响所需的模型、理论和数据。为期两天的研讨会的预期成果将是一份确定创新需求和机会的报告，并描述实现可持续建筑承诺的研究途径。研讨会将通过促进美国学术机构之间的合作以及以色列和美国机构之间的国际伙伴关系来加强研究和教育的基础设施。讲习班将吸引工程和建筑领域多个学科的研究人员和教育工作者参加，包括传统上没有在可持续建筑领域工作的研究人员，并将通过会议网站向不同社区传播其成果。由于建筑对全球环境产生了如此重大的影响，该研讨会开发的可持续建筑研究计划可以对美国、以色列和世界各地的社会产生深远的好处。

This is a workshop award to organize the US-Israel Workshop on Sustainable Buildings: Materials and Energy from July 12-13, 2010, in Haifa, Israel. The workshop will provide a vehicle for exploration and discussion of long-term barriers to sustainable buildings and the innovations required to overcome them. The workshop will focus on two broad areas of sustainability in buildings: (1) the materials used in the construction and operation of buildings and their systems and (2) the role of building materials on the energy required to maintain a comfortable, healthy, and productive indoor environment. In each area, the workshop will include emphases on the development of materials and systems as well as the models, theories, and data required to effectively analyze the long-term impact of sustainable buildings through life cycle assessment (LCA). The expected outcome of the two-day workshop will be a report that identifies needs and opportunities for innovation and describes research pathways to deliver on the promise of sustainable buildings. The workshops will enhance the infrastructure for research and education by promoting collaborations among US academic institutions and international partnerships between institutions in Israel and the US. The workshop will engage researchers and educators from multiple disciplines in engineering and architecture, including researchers who have not traditionally worked in the field of sustainable buildings, and will disseminate its results to the diverse community through the conference website. Since building impose such a significant impact on the global environment, the research program for sustainable buildings developed by the workshop can have far-reaching benefits to society in the US, in Israel, and worldwide.