Integrating phase change material (PCM) and natural night ventilation (NNV) has notably improved building indoor thermal comfort in hot locations. The current study investigates the …
Considerable energy is used for cooling buildings in hot climates like those found in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Designing building envelopes for the purpose of …
FA Fayad, W Maref, MM Awad - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This article performed a comprehensive review of the different state-of-the-art of roofing technologies and roofing materials and their impact on the urban heat island (UHI) and …
HH Saber - Journal of Building Physics, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The measurements for the short-wave solar reflectivity of a Reflective Coating Material (RCM) with various cleaning operations that were obtained in a previous study were used in …
AE Hajiah, HH Saber - Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, 2020 - Springer
Numerical simulations are conducted in this paper to investigate the hygrothermal performance of white and black roofing systems with and without Phase Change Materials …
Many previous studies by the authors of this paper and others have shown that installing white/reflective/cool roofing systems resulted in energy savings. The amount of energy …
FA Fadye, W Maref, MM Awad - 2021 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
This article performed a comprehensive review of the different state-of-the-art of roofing technologies and roofing materials and their impact on the urban heat island (UHI) and …