Paru le 02/05/2024 | Broché 388 pages
Professionnels
The value of building bioclimatic residential buildings in tropical environments from local materials
This book, aimed at Engineers, Architects, Building Technicians, and Students, offers a crucial insight into bioclimatic building construction in Tropical Africa. It addresses the common oversight of climatic characteristics in building design, emphasizing the need to consider weather conditions, especially in warm periods. The book analyzes current housing, compares it with vernacular and colonial models, and proposes bioclimatic designs using passive architectural techniques.
A key model involves a mathematical analysis of complex admittances, considering local materials like hollow blocks, BTCS, terracotta bricks, laterite stones, granite rubble, and vibrated mortar tiles. Combined with passive techniques, this forms a bioclimatic building model tailored to dry tropical climates.
The author, in accessible language, advocates for promoting locally available materials as alternatives to conventional ones, anticipating potential shortages in building aggregates in tropical African countries.
Elhadj Malick Soumaré holds a PhD in Civil Engineering, a PhD in Management Sciences and he also holds a Post-graduate Diploma in Project Management and Economic Regulation, another Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration and an MBA in Management. He has been a Project Manager at the State agency AGETIP, Head of Acquisitions Division at the WAEMU Commission in Ouagadougou, Senior Procurement Specialist at AfDB. He is currently Global Lead Procurement Specialist at Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah. He has been a temporary professor since 2006 at the Advanced Polytechnic School of Senegal and the International University of Dakar.
