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Environmental Research Letters, 2016 The climate warming effects of accelerated urbanization along with projected global climate change raise an urgent need for sustainable mitigation and adaptation strategies to cool urban climates. Our modeling results show that historical urbanization in
P Vahmani, F Sun, A Hall, G Ban-Weiss
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Thermal stress reduction in cool roof membranes using phase change materials (PCM) [PDF]
, 2017 A considerable amount of energy is used in the building sector for air conditioning purposes. Additionally, the building sector contributes to the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon which causes temperature rise in urban areas.
Cabeza, Luisa F. +5 more
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Buildings, 2016 Over the last few decades many bibliographical studies have been conducted on cool roofs, by analyzing both the energy performance during summer and winter seasons and their contribution in mitigating the urban heat island effect.
Benedetta Barozzi, M. Cristina Pollastro
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Remote Sensing, 2021 This study examined the impact of different types of building roofs on urban heat islands. This was carried out using building roof data from remotely sensed Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) imagery.
Yingbin Deng +5 more
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Features and Benefits of Cool Roofs: The Cool Roof Rating Council Program
Journal of Green Building, 2008 Abstract Green buildings incorporate many strategies to reduce energy use and environmental impacts and improve occupant health. Cool roofs are one important green building strategy because of the immense positive benefit they can provide. Cool roofs are not a new phenomenon, but they are essential to the construction and maintenance of energy ...
Michelle van Tijen, Rebecca Cohen
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Roof cooling by direct evaporation from a porous layer [PDF]
Energy and Buildings, 2016 As the world continues to urbanise, significant challenges are arising to environment, energy and water sustainability in cities. One of the most challenging consequences of increased urbanisation is increased energy consumption adversely affecting the quality of life, environment and public health.
Shokri, Salome +3 more
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Buildings, 2023 Energy-efficient retrofitting of building envelopes is necessary to reduce global carbon emissions and to reach net-zero goals. Cooling energy demand-dominated countries in the GCC region require simple and effective strategies to reduce building sector ...
Tirumala Uday Kumar Nutakki +4 more
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Thermal analysis of roof‐spray cooling
International Journal of Energy Research, 1998 Roof-spray cooling systems have been developed and implemented to reduce the heat gain through roofs so that conventional cooling systems can be reduced in size or eliminated. Currently, roof-spray systems are achieving greater effectiveness due to the availability of direct digital controls (DDC).
J. A. Clements, S. A. Sherif
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Assessment and mitigation strategies to counteract overheating in urban historical areas in Rome [PDF]
, 2018 As urban overheating is increasing, there is a strong public interest towards mitigation strategies to enhance comfortable urban spaces, for their role in supporting urban metabolism and social life.
Battisti, Alessandra +2 more
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, 2017 The motive of undertaking this project “cool roofs technology” discusses the various technical and design considerations as applicable for a composite climate. The primary intent of “cool roof technology” is to reduce the amount of energy (heat) absorbed by a roof surface and maintain the temperature of upper floors in building in summer season.
Singh, Surya Pratap, Sunayana
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