8th International Conference on Environmental Effects on Buildings and People: Actions, Influences, Interactions, Discomfort EEBPVIII hosted by: Wind Engineering Laboratory (Cracow University of Technology) and Department of Structural Mechanics (Lublin University of Technology), will take place in Cracow, Poland, October 3-5, 2018.
AUSPICES
Science Committee of the Polish Association of the Civil Engineers and Technicians
Polish Society of Bridge Engineers
Civil Engineering Committee of the Cracow Branch of the Polish Academy of Science
Chamber of Civil Engineers of Małopolska Discrict
Cracow University of Technology
Lublin University of Technology
AMC - Andrzej M. Chołdzyński Sp. z o. o. - Sp.k.
HONORARY AUSPICES
Andrzej Adamczyk - Minister of Infrastructure
Henryk Kowalczyk - Minister of the Environment
Jacek Majchrowski - President of Cracow
Piotr Ćwik - Governor of the Malopolska Region
Jacek Krupa - Marshal of Malopolska Region
IN COOPERATION WITH
International Association for Wind Engineering
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Polish Association for Wind Engineering
GENERAL TOPICS
Environmental effects on buildings and structures (wind action, snow load, ice accretion and ice load, thermal action of climatic and technological origin, effects resulting from thermal-humidity fields, wind-driven rain, etc.);
Combinations and interactions between environmental actions;
Static and dynamic analysis of structures subjected to environmental actions;
Wind turbines and energy harvesting from wind, waves, tides;
Influence of wind on people in buildings;
Pedestrian wind comfort;
Environmental acoustics;
Thermal influences on materials and structures;
Effects of fire on buildings and structures;
Ways of reduction of excessive environmental effects on people and buildings;
Changes of mechanical and physical properties of building materials and structures caused by weather influences;
Problems of standardization of environmental effects on buildings and people;
New measuring techniques of environmental effects on buildings and people;
Disasters caused by environmental actions;
CFD applications in environmental actions.