Thermal performance of insulated roof slabs in tropical climates

Thermoresponsive Polymer Induced Sweating Surfaces as an Efficient Way to Passively Cool Buildings

“…That is why, novel sustainable concepts for cooling have been proposed in the past years. Most promising solutions are based on passive systems (i.e., no electricity needed) directly integrated in the roof or the façade of buildings 4–12. For instance, porous materials have been used to store and release water, provoking evaporative cooling and highly IR‐ reflective coatings reduce the energy uptake as a result of solar irradiance 13–15.…”

Predicting Thermal Performance of Different Roof Systems by Using Decision Tree Method

“…Some modifications were introduced for these roofs such as a sloped ceiling for asesbestos sheet roof and calicut tile roof, insulate concrete roof, green roof and concrete roof with parapet walls for concrete roof slab. The insulated slab system is similar to model proposed by Halwathura and Jayasinghe [21,22]. The green roof has a 10 cm grass layer on top of the roof as proposed by Dareeju et al [23].…”

“…DEROB-LTH was used as the energy simualation software for this study. It was used by previous researchers [20, 21,23] and accuracy was evaluated with field measurements [20]. Two types of data inputs are needed for a DEROB simulation, one data set for climate data and other about the building model.…”

Factors influencing the spatial pattern of sky gardens in the compact city of Hong Kong

“…Numerous studies touch on the relationships between sky gardens and energy efficiency (e.g., Rowe et al, 2006;Halwatura and Jayasinghe, 2008) and urban drainage (Williams et al, 2010). Mentens et al (2006) evaluated the literatures on measurements of runoff from green roofs.…”