Thermal Insulating Concrete Wall Panel Design for Sustainable Built Environment

Figure 1

(a) The left part of the building envelopes is constructed by the conventional precast concrete wall panel, while the right part employs the proposed new wall panel design. If there is no air-conditioning system, a building structure adopting the new wall panel will exhibit a lower indoor temperature than that of a conventional concrete building; (b) a schematic diagram of the sandwich concrete/gypsum wall panel which shows the gridded gypsum layer.