Building construction deserves many attentions due to its huge energy consumption, while
Phase Change Materials (PCMs) provide positive solutions for improving energy efficiency …

Today, phase change materials (PCMs) have been used as effective potential energy
storage elements in buildings due to their excellent thermal energy storage capability and …

It is well known that there is a need to develop technologies to achieve thermal comfort in
buildings lowering the cooling and heating demand. Research has shown that thermal …

Applications of phase change materials (PCMs) have become of great interest in recent
years owing to beneficial effects on the thermal, mechanical and durability properties of …

Energy demand for heating and cooling of buildings can be minimized through usage of
thermal energy storage (TES) systems in building materials. TES in microencapsulated …

Thermal energy storage in building envelopes is critical to promoting renewable energy,
implementation of which requires thermal performance enhancement of construction …

Concretes with a high thermal energy storage capacity were fabricated by mixing
microencapsulated phase change materials (MPCM) into Portland cement concrete (PCC) …

In certain Moroccan regions, weather conditions are extreme; the outside ambient
temperature varies between 45° C during the day and 25° C at night in the estival period …

The construction industry is responsible for consuming large amounts of energy. The
development of new materials with the purpose of increasing the thermal efficiency of …

The energy consumption in the built environment represents one of the major contributors of
carbon emissions to the atmosphere. This leads to the need for a transition in the building …