The need to achieve energy efficiency standards in new and existing buildings has triggered
both research and design practice aimed at reducing their carbon footprint and improving …

Glazed envelopes play a strategic role in the environmental performance of buildings,
significantly affecting indoor comfort and energy consumption while allowing the penetration …

UHI is the most studied phenomenon of climate change and refers to the increased ambient
temperature of cities compared to rural settings. Implementation of reflective materials to …

Abstract Cool Pavements (CPs) can maintain a lower surface temperature than conventional
pavements and mitigate urban overheating. CPs decrease their heat gains by enhancing …

Building cooling energy use is regarded as the hot topic of building research due to its
increasing trend at a rate proportional to the total direct energy use in urban areas …

There is an incipient necessity and interest of generating sustainable materials for
application in green buildings. In this study, the capability of Posidonia Oceanica seagrass …

Urban heat island is an anthropogenic phenomenon affecting urban outdoor thermal comfort
conditions and energy utilization. This is even truer in urban canyon configurations …

The extreme effects of urban heat island (UHI) on energy consumption, air quality, and
human health are significantly detrimental. Increasing the albedo of urban surfaces has …

Key research effort was dedicated toward zero-energy buildings. Recent interest is switching
from single-building to inter-building scale, to enhance the whole district economic …

While cool materials are widely acknowledged for lowering surface and air temperatures,
mitigating Urban Heat Island, reducing emissions imputable to active cooling systems in …