Biography of Organizer: Pásztory Zoltán, born 7 September 1971 in the city of Budapest, Hungary. Graduated from the University of West Hungary (since 2017 – University of Sopron), Faculty of Wood Science and Technology (at the present time – Faculty of Wood Sciences), with MSc (1996), and PhD in Wood Science and Technology (2007), in the city of Sopron, Hungary. Head for the Department of the Natural Resources Research Centre and Director for Innovation Center, The Simonyi Karoly Faculty of Engineering, Wood Sciences and Applied Arts, the University of Sopron, in the city of Sopron, Hungary. Research interests in forest measurements, developing building materials on the bases of cellulose and lignin, and improving energy efficiency of buildings. Author and co-author of more than 75 scientific publications.
Title of Special Session 1: Buildings Effect to the Environment and Green Buildings
Short description of the proposed topic: Beside the industrial
production and transportation the buildings have the highest effect to
the Environment. These effects can be separated to two main groups; the
first one is the operation energy consumption which consist about one
quarter of carbon emission via heating cooling domestic hot water etc.
These energies must be changed to renewable energy sources. The second
groups belong to the building effect including the environment friendly
or damaging materials and technologies.
Unless the significant changes of used energy sources in buildings the
development can not be sustainable. That is why the application of
renewable energy ratio must be developed in the near future. On the
other side the building materials also must be changed a renewable and
recyclable ones such as natural based environment friendly materials,
like bamboo, wood etc.
Novelty and motivation: The building and operation of the building are responsible for 40% of all carbon emission to the atmosphere. The buildings have a close connection to the environment and also to the energy sources. The buildings including the technology and the materials had not been in the scope of the conference, but by the operational energy and the possible environmentally friendly materials could have connection to the regular topics of ICERE.