Eco-efficient materials for mitigating building cooling needs : design, properties and applications

Publication Data

• Title Eco-efficient materials for mitigating building cooling needs : design, properties and applications
• Contributors Fernando Pacheco Torgal, Joô Labrincha, Luisa Cabeza, Claes Goeran Granqvist
• Publisher Woodhead Publishing
• Publication date 2015
• Publication location Oxford
• Language English

Contents

Ch 1- Introduction F. Pacheco-Torgal, University of Minho, Portugal

Ch 2 - Coating materials to increase pavement's surface reflectance N Xie, Harbin Institute of Technology, China  Ch 3 - Pavements made of concrete with high solar reflectance Farhad Reza, University of California, USA Ch. 4 - Comparison of the performance of concrete and asphalt materials H. Li, University of California, USA

Ch. 5 - Green facades and living walls: vertical vegetation as a construction material Irina Susorovo, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ch. 6 - Comparing the performance of different facade materials N Alchapar, INCIHUSA, Argentina Ch. 7 - Lotus ceramics for counteracting urban heat island effects Kiyoshi Okada, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Ch. 8 - Innovative evaporative cooling walls Alessandro Carbonari, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Ch. 9 - High albedo roof coatings for reducing cooling needs Anna Laura Pisello, University of Perugia, Italy Ch 10 - Solar cooling with hydrophilic porous materials for reducing cooling needs D. Karamanis, University of Ioannina, Greece Ch 11 - Cool green roofs for reducing cooling needs Yann-Jou Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ch 12 - Influence of damaged vegetation on the reduction of cooling needs A. F. Speak, The University of Manchester, UK Ch 13 - Technical and economic analysis of green roofs to reduce cooling needs Fabrizio Ascione, University of Naples, Italy

Ch. 14 - PCMs for reducing cooling needs Luisa F. Cabeza, University of Lleida, Spain Ch.