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Kawar Salih, Zaid O. Saeed and Avar Almukhtar
The concept of sustainable urban design has appeared in different perspectives to minimize and reduce the negative impacts of urban expansion in terms of climatic and environmental drawbacks. One of the undeniable approaches of sustainable urban design i...
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Arunima Sarkar Basu, Bidroha Basu, Francesco Pilla and Srikanta Sannigrahi
This article aims to analyse the performance of green roof in runoff reduction. A case study has been conducted through a deployed green roof at the custom house quay building in Dublin, Ireland. Modular green roofs have been deployed which have IoT scal...
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A growing number of local green roof niches across the globe are transitioning into the mainstream domain. Guidelines are key to this process, as they define technological environments and set the criteria for best practices in a given socio-technical se...
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Marco Carbone, Giuseppe Brunetti and Patrizia Piro
The increasing imperviousness of urban areas reduces the infiltration and evapotranspiration capacity of urban catchments and results in increased runoff. In the last few decades, several solutions and techniques have been proposed to prevent such impact...
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Agnieszka Karczmarczyk, Agnieszka Bus and Anna Baryla
Green roofs are an effective stormwater measure due to high water retention capacity and the ability of delaying stormwater runoff. However, low importance is still given to the pollutant leaching potential of substrates used in green roof construction. ...
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Agnieszka Karczmarczyk, Agnieszka Bus and Anna Baryla
Green roofs are an effective stormwater measure due to high water retention capacity and the ability of delaying stormwater runoff. However, low importance is still given to the pollutant leaching potential of substrates used in green roof construction. ...
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Yajun Wang, Rajendra Prasad Singh, Dafang Fu, Junyu Zhang and Fang Zhou
Selection of xerophils and drought tolerant plants is highly crucial in green roof techniques in the drought prone regions of Northwest China. In this study, the thermal performance under the natural conventional climate in summer was analyzed using a se...
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Vivian W. Y. Tam, Xiaoling Zhang, Winnie Lee, LY Shen
Pág. 15 - 25
Developed cities such as Hong Kong are usually densely populated. Since the land is limited, high-rise buildings are constructed. When the building height becomes higher, air flow is reduced and heat is trapped among high-rise buildings. Air temperature ...
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Vivian W. Y. Tam, Xiaoling Zhang, Winnie Lee, LY Shen
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Developed cities such as Hong Kong are usually densely populated. Since the land is limited, high-rise buildings are constructed. When the building height becomes higher, air flow is reduced and heat is trapped among high-rise buildings. Air temperature ...
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Erlend Andenæs, Tore Kvande, Tone M. Muthanna and Jardar Lohne
Green and blue-green roofs are emerging as an increasingly popular feature of rooftops, particularly in urban areas. Particular problematic conditions render their usage complex in the Nordic countries. In order to ensure that green roofs are built durab...
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Erlend Andenæs, Tore Kvande, Tone M. Muthanna and Jardar Lohne
Green and blue-green roofs are emerging as an increasingly popular feature of rooftops, particularly in urban areas. Particular problematic conditions render their usage complex in the Nordic countries. In order to ensure that green roofs are built durab...
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Stuart Alan Walters and Karen Stoelzle Midden
The practice of producing vegetables on green roofs has been gaining momentum in recent years as a method to facilitate agricultural sustainability in urban areas. Rooftop gardens are becoming an important part of the recent rejuvenation of urban agricul...
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Approximately 10 km2 of new green roofs are built in Germany every year. About 85% of these are Extensive Green Roofs (EGR). An EGR with several research features was installed on new buildings belonging to the University of Applied Sciences N...
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Benedetta Barozzi, Alice Bellazzi, Claudio Maffè and Italo Meroni
Green roofs are one of the most extensively investigated roofing technologies. Most of the bibliographical studies show results of researches focused on the analysis of different configurations of green roofs, but only few researches deal with the calcul...
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Julie Chenot, Elie Gaget, Cannelle Moinardeau, Renaud Jaunatre, Elise Buisson and Thierry Dutoit
The Mediterranean basin is extremely vulnerable to climate change, and one of the areas most impacted by human water demand. Yet the green roofs increasingly created both for aesthetic reasons and to limit pollution and urban runoff are themselves very w...
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Luisa Olaya, Diego Rubio, Daniel Ruiz, Andrés Torres
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The research group Science and Engineering of Water and the Environment and Social Program of the Faculty of Engineering (PROSOFI) of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana proposed, for socially vulnerable population, green roofs based on covering the roo...
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Anna Palla, Ilaria Gnecco and Luca G. Lanza
Loss of natural soil and vegetation within the urban environment can significantly affect the hydrologic cycle by increasing storm water runoff rates and volumes. In order to mitigate these modifications in urban areas engineered systems are developed, s...
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Hery Tiana Rakotondramiarana, Tojo Fanomezana Ranaivoarisoa and Dominique Morau
Green roofs improve building energy performance and constitute an alternative to sustainable buildings. A green roof model is dynamically coupled with a building thermal model to assess its energy performance that takes into account the indoor air temper...
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Cuong Ngoc Nguyen, Hing-Wah Chau and Nitin Muttil
Green roofs (GRs) have been researched for decades, yet their implementation remains constrained due to several reasons, including their limited appeal to policymakers and the public. Biochar, a carbon-rich material, has been recently introduced as an am...
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Ronja Iffland, Kristian Förster, Daniel Westerholt, María Herminia Pesci and Gilbert Lösken
In increasingly expanding cities, roofs are still largely unused areas to counteract the negative impacts of urbanization on the water balance and to reduce flooding. To estimate the effect of green roofs as a sustainable low impact development (LID) tec...
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