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THE LIMITS OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN URBAN SOUTH AFRICA: THE CASE OF GREEN ROOFS [PDF]
Analele Universităţii din Oradea: Seria Geografie, 2023 With the advance of urbanisation many cities are confronted with environmental problems including air pollution, the absence of green spaces and urban heat island effects.
Jayne M. ROGERSON
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Green Roof Analysis and Design Software Calculator in Egypt [PDF]
Port Said Engineering Research Journal, 2016 Green Roofs Analysis and Design software (GRAD) 1st version is a data-base-driven tool, which has been developed from detailed green roofs sections calculation at residential buildings according to the Egyptian climate zones, and Egyptian energy code ...
Mostafa El-Ahwal +3 more
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Journal of Engineering, 2021 In this paper, a comparison between a conventional flat roof and an intensive green roof was made. Emphasis was on thermal conductivity of individual layers, the calculation of thermal resistance, and calculation of the thermal transmittance coefficient ...
Belinda Brucker Juricic +2 more
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Impact of green roofing on the energy performance of a residential building with a sunspace [PDF]
Tehnika, 2021 The construction of green, or vegetated roofs, can mitigate the heat island effect, reduce the energy required for cooling of buildings, allow for efficient precipitation management, improve air quality, increase biological diversity, reduce noise, etc ...
Vukadinović Ana V. +3 more
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Journal of Water and Land Development, 2017 Green blue roof has the potential to reduce the surface temperature of the building in the urban areas. Green blue roof is a new innovative low impact development (LID) practice that has exhibited an option to mitigate the heat island phenomena in urban ...
Shafique Muhammad, Kim Reeho
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Thermal Performance and Temperature Mitigation towards Application of Green Roof in Tropical Climate
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2017 Many studies have been conducted to ascertain the implementation of green roofs provides many advantages including extended roof life, increase of water run off quality and mitigation of urban heat island effect.
M. Mirnezhad, A.M.R. Aminudin, K.S. Yeap
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The GREENROOF module (v7.3) for modelling green roof hydrological and energetic performances within TEB [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2013 The need to prepare cities for climate change adaptation requests the urban modeller community to implement sustainable adaptation strategies within their models to be tested against specific city morphologies and scenarios.
C. S. de Munck +4 more
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Green Roof to Overcome Urban Heat Island Effects in the Center of Semarang [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Climate change and urbanization are the main problems of the city that have caused the Urban Heat Island effect (UHI). A green roof that utilizes the building roof as a green space can overcome the UHI effects. Green roof is also an efficient solution in
Luthfiyyah Dwi Nur, Widjajanti Retno
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Green roof impact on the quantity and quality of stormwater discharged from urban areas [PDF]
Journal of Water and Land Development, 2023 Green roofs are increasingly popular in both new and modernised buildings. They significantly reduce the outflow of stormwater from buildings and change its composition.
Grażyna Sakson
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Environmentally Sustainable Green Roof Design for Energy Demand Reduction
Buildings, 2023 Green roofs are artificial ecosystems that provide a nature-based solution to environmental problems such as climate change and the urban heat island effect by absorbing solar radiation and helping to alleviate urban environmental, economic, and social ...
Zaloa Azkorra-Larrinaga +3 more
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