State-of-the-art analysis of the environmental benefits of green roofs

U Berardi, AH GhaffarianHoseini, A GhaffarianHoseini - Applied energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Green roofs have been proposed for sustainable buildings in many countries with different
climatic conditions. A state-of-the-art review of green roofs emphasizing current …

A review of urban energy system models: Approaches, challenges and opportunities

J Keirstead, M Jennings, A Sivakumar - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2012 - Elsevier
Energy use in cities has attracted significant research in recent years. However such a broad
topic inevitably results in number of alternative interpretations of the problem domain and …

Using advanced cool materials in the urban built environment to mitigate heat islands and improve thermal comfort conditions

M Santamouris, A Synnefa, T Karlessi - Solar energy, 2011 - Elsevier
The present paper is a review article aiming to present the actual state of the art on the
development and the assessment of cool materials (ie materials with high solar reflectance …

A review on the generation, determination and mitigation of Urban Heat Island

AM Rizwan, LYC Dennis, LIU Chunho - Journal of environmental sciences, 2008 - Elsevier
Urban Heat Island (UHI) is considered as one of the major problems in the 21st century
posed to human beings as a result of urbanization and industrialization of human …

Positivity and difference of influence of built environment around urban park on building energy consumption

P Wang, Y Yang, C Ji, L Huang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Built environment can improve thermal comfort and reduce building energy consumption.
Among these, urban parks are considered as a major strategy for reducing building energy …

Impacts of urban morphology on reducing cooling load and increasing ventilation potential in hot-arid climate

K Javanroodi, M Mahdavinejad, VM Nik - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Cooling buildings in urban areas with hot-arid climate put huge loads on the energy system.
There is an increasing trend in urban energy studies to recognize the urban design …

Modeling the heating and cooling energy demand of urban buildings at city scale

L Frayssinet, L Merlier, F Kuznik, JL Hubert… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Many computational approaches exist to estimate heating and cooling energy demand of
buildings at city scale, but few existing models can explicitly consider every buildings of an …

[HTML][HTML] London's urban heat island: Impact on current and future energy consumption in office buildings

M Kolokotroni, X Ren, M Davies, A Mavrogianni - Energy and buildings, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of a computational study on the energy consumption and
related CO2 emissions for heating and cooling of an office building within the Urban Heat …

[图书][B] Toward sustainable communities: Solutions for citizens and their governments

M Roseland - 2012 - books.google.com
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Greywater recycling in buildings using living walls and green roofs: A review of the applicability and challenges

S Pradhan, SG Al-Ghamdi, HR Mackey - Science of The Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Living walls and green roofs offer numerous benefits to densely populated urban areas such
as cooling, air filtering and improved aesthetics. However, plants in these two systems are …