Paper Title
Style & Sustainability Using External Precast Insulated Concrete Panels for Educational Buildings

Abstract
One of the main concerns of architects and designers is building’s skin, façade design and finishing.Many educational buildings are constructed using typical conventional construction system with exterior concrete block wall’ facades plastered and painted. However, due to high temperature and the intensity of solar radiation in hot regions, most of these exterior facades’ paint are fading and peeling adding a high additional cost on maintenance. The study examined case studies of schools and colleges in such region. Based on climate condition, the study showed by adopting architectural structural precast concrete components such as precast concrete insulated sandwich wall panels with exposed colored aggregate surface for the exterior wall’s facades accelerate construction time, reduce overall costs and can contribute estheticallyto design excellence, including surface color and finishing durability, low maintenance cost and thermalinsulation. Total 20recently conventionally built educational buildings in United Arab Emirates adopting different paint style and finishing for their exterior wallswere examined as case studies. Their facades color fading degree and paint peeling were observed after two years of building completion. A number of other case studies of educational buildings used precast concrete panels with exposed aggregate surfaces for their exterior walls have chosen to examine their color and finishing durability after five years of building completion, in addition to their architectural esthetic value. Keywords - Building skin, precast concrete panels, educational building design.