ASTM Materials and Climate Change Symposium
October 9 - October 10
About the Event
The Symposium on Changing Face of Building Materials and Systems in Response to Climate Change will be held October 9, 2024 – October 10, 2024. The symposium is organized by ASTM Committee C16 on Thermal Insulation, and will be held at the Renaissance Orlando at Seaworld, Orlando, Florida, USA in conjunction with the standards development meetings of the committee. The language of the symposium will be English.
Objective and Scope
This symposium will be a forum that focuses on the impacts of climate change on building materials and systems. This symposium could initiate discussion and collaborations that would lead to modifications applicable to building codes and standards required to mitigate the impacts of climate change on our building stocks.
Topics for the symposium include, but are not limited to:
- Climate-resilient (extremes of temp, fire, drought, wind, rain and flood) buildings and thermal insulations
- Embodied carbon (retrofit, manufacturing, and building commissioning)
- New or modified thermal insulations and related building products/materials
- Theoretical developments in materials and systems design
- Advances in testing and evaluation (laboratory and field)
- Codes, standards and economics related to buildings
- Simulations and modeling of building performance
