Trends in cool roof solar reflectivity degradation in New York City (2014–2020): an important consideration for health-based evaluations of high albedo urban roofing interventions [PDF]
Frontiers in Sustainable CitiesIntroductionGrowing remote sensing and machine learning capabilities offer opportunities to understand the spatiotemporal performance of reflective cool roofs, a widely implemented urban heat mitigation tool, in relation to health. We evaluated cool roof
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State-of-the-Art Review: Effects of Using Cool Building Cladding Materials on Roofs
BuildingsCool roofs are roofing systems designed to reflect significant solar radiation, reducing heat absorption and subsequent cooling energy demands in buildings.
Chetan Aggarwal, Sudhakar Molleti
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Cool roofs could be most effective at reducing outdoor urban temperatures in London (United Kingdom) compared with other roof top and vegetation interventions: a mesoscale urban climate modeling study [PDF]
Geophysical Research LettersComprehensive studies comparing impacts of building and street levels interventions on air temperature at metropolitan scales are still lacking despite increased urban heat‐related mortality and morbidity. We therefore model the impact of 9 interventions
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Study on the Application of Cool Paintings for the Passive Cooling of Existing Buildings in Mediterranean Climates [PDF]
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2013 Building roofs play a very important role in the energy balance of buildings, especially in summer, when they are hit by a rather high solar irradiance.
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Acceptability of cool roofs: a qualitative study in Nouna, Burkina Faso [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Structural passive cooling interventions such as cool roofs are used to reduce indoor ambient temperature. However, it is unknown how acceptable and desirable cool roof technology is in rural low-income settings in sub-Saharan Africa, where ...
Kate Bärnighausen +13 more
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Hygrothermal Performance of Cool Roofs Subjected to Saudi Climates
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2019 In regions with hot climatic conditions such as that in Saudi Arabia, a substantial share of energy is used for cooling the buildings. Many studies have shown that cool (white) roofs can help reduce the cooling energy load and thus the demand for energy ...
Hamed H. Saber +2 more
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An Overview on the Performance over time of Cool and Green Roofs as Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands [PDF]
Tema, 2015 In the last decades progressively growing efforts were spent to identify strategies and to develop tools and techniques helpful to design sustainable, resilient, and low energy built environments. Green and high albedo roofs have been proved as effective
Riccardo Paolini
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Building energy savings by green roofs and cool roofs in current and future climates
npj Urban SustainabilityThe global energy demand has greatly impacted greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Since buildings are responsible for a large portion of global energy consumption, this study investigates the energy-saving potential of green roofs and cool roofs
Siqi Jia +4 more
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Impacts of urban adaptation on reducing temperatures and heat-related deaths in Belgium
Environment InternationalExtreme heat poses increasing risks to urban populations, yet the effectiveness of adaptation strategies at larger scales beyond neighbourhoods remains poorly quantified. The July 2019 heatwave in northwestern Europe, one of the hottest on record, offers
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Environment International, 2019 Hot weather can exacerbate health conditions such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and lead to heat stroke and death. In built up areas, temperatures are commonly observed to be higher than those in surrounding rural areas, due to the Urban ...
H.L. Macintyre, C. Heaviside
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