Comprehensive Review of the Advancements, Benefits, Challenges, and Design Integration of Energy-Efficient Materials for Sustainable Buildings DOI Creative Commons
Yahya Alassaf

Buildings, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(9), P. 2994 - 2994

Published: Sept. 21, 2024

Energy-efficient materials are essential in buildings to reduce energy consumption, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance indoor comfort. These help address the increasing demand environmental impact of traditional construction methods. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review that explores advanced technologies for improving building efficiency, sustainability, occupant The study applies comparative analysis peer-reviewed research examine key analyzed include building-integrated photovoltaics, insulating materials, reflective thermal coatings, glazing systems, phase-change green roofs walls. highlights significant savings, performance, benefits these materials. By integrating technologies, can achieve enhanced reduced carbon footprints, improved findings underscore potential fostering sustainable practices. methodology this involves collecting, analyzing, summarizing, comparing synthesizing existing draw conclusions on performance efficiency technologies.

Language: Английский

Green roof and green wall benefits and costs: A review of the quantitative evidence DOI
Maria Manso, Inês Teotónio, Cristina Matos Silva

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 135, P. 110111 - 110111

Published: Aug. 8, 2020

Language: Английский

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Green infrastructure and public policies: An international review of green roofs and green walls incentives DOI Creative Commons
Tiago Liberalesso, Carlos Oliveira Cruz, Cristina Matos Silva

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Land Use Policy, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 96, P. 104693 - 104693

Published: April 29, 2020

Language: Английский

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240
Green Facades and Living Walls—A Review Establishing the Classification of Construction Types and Mapping the Benefits DOI Open Access
Mina Radić, Marta Brković Dodig, Thomas Auer

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Sustainability, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 11(17), P. 4579 - 4579

Published: Aug. 23, 2019

The green facades and living walls of vertical greenery systems (VGS) are gaining increasing importance as sustainable building design elements because they can improve the environmental impact a building. field could benefit from comprehensive mapping out VGS types, an improved classification nomenclature system, linking benefits to specific construction type. Therefore, this research reviews existing types links associated them, clearly differentiating empirical descriptive supporting data. study adopted scoping review used for field. A systematic literature based on keywords identified 13 types—four facades, nine walls, ten benefits. Thermal performance, VGS, is most broadly empirically explored benefit. Yet, further qualitative studies, including human perception thermal comfort needed. Improvements in air quality, reduction noise, positive effects hydrology, visual need much testing, current data mostly similarities with roofs. educational has no evidence, while social have only been evaluated through one study. Future progress depends adoption clear system quantitative testing benefits, which should be linked type so that cross-comparison studies enabled.

Language: Английский

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175
Economics of green roofs and green walls: A literature review DOI
Inês Teotónio, Cristina Matos Silva, Carlos Oliveira Cruz

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Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 69, P. 102781 - 102781

Published: Feb. 21, 2021

Language: Английский

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Effect of green wall installation on urban heat island and building energy use: A climate-informed systematic literature review DOI
Tiziana Susca, Fabio Zanghirella, Luca Colasuonno

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 159, P. 112100 - 112100

Published: Feb. 27, 2022

Language: Английский

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Sustainable Mitigation Strategies for Urban Heat Island Effects in Urban Areas DOI Open Access
Abdul Munaf Mohamed Irfeey, Hing-Wah Chau,

Mohamed Mahusoon Fathima Sumaiya

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Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(14), P. 10767 - 10767

Published: July 9, 2023

The globe is at a crossroads in terms of the urban heat island effect, with rising surface temperatures due to urbanization and an expanding built environment. This cause-and-effect connection may be linked weather-related dangers, natural disasters, disease outbreaks. Urbanization industrialization will not lead secure sustainable future. Finding solutions problems such as effect forefront scientific research policy development. Sustainable ways decrease impacts are core principle for planners. literature study examines benefits adding green infrastructure materials built-up areas reduce effect. Materials reflective street pavements, coating including light-colored paint, phase-change materials, color-changing fluorescence energy-efficient appliances considered whereas like roofs, walls, parking shaded streets mitigate hurdles widespread adoption practices include lack governmental legislation, insufficient technological development, erroneous estimation economic gains, unwillingness on part impacted parties.

Language: Английский

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Buildings DOI Open Access

Recc Led

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 953 - 1048

Published: July 21, 2023

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Language: Английский

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Contribution of buildings climate change mitigation options to sustainable development DOI Creative Commons
S. Mirasgedis, Luisa F. Cabeza, David Vérez

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Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 106, P. 105355 - 105355

Published: March 18, 2024

Buildings are responsible for a big part of total GHG emissions; therefore, their climate change mitigation potential is high. But research shows that actions in the sector can have significant social and economic values beyond reduction energy consumption associated emissions. This paper summarizes these multiple impacts buildings, which related to microeconomic macroeconomic effects, health impacts, environmental benefits, better management natural resources, on well-being, security implications, assesses interactions (synergies trade-offs) with UN SDGs. The findings our analysis show buildings enable achievement 4 SDGs, reinforce 7 others, inextricably linked 5 namely SDG3: good SDG7: affordable clean energy, SDG8: decent work growth, SDG11: sustainable cities communities, SDG13: action. On other hand, trade-offs were identified 9 rather minor be further eliminated implementation appropriate policies.

Language: Английский

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The seven lamps of planning for biodiversity in the city DOI Creative Commons
Kirsten M. Parris, Marco Amati, Sarah A. Bekessy

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Cities, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 83, P. 44 - 53

Published: June 12, 2018

Cities tend to be built in areas of high biodiversity, and the accelerating pace urbanization threatens persistence many species ecological communities globally. However, urban environments also offer unique prospects for biological conservation, with multiple benefits humans other species. We present seven principles conserve increase biodiversity cities, using metaphors bridge gap between languages built-environment conservation professionals. draw upon John Ruskin's famous essay on lamps architecture, but more generally thinking pioneers such as Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) who proposed a synoptic view environment that included non-humans alike. To explain each principle or ‘lamp’ we use an understanding from disciplines base demonstrate through metaphor planning more-than-human does not require conceptual leap. conclude our discussion ten practical strategies turning these cities. Urban planners, architects, landscape engineers built-environmental professionals have key role play paradigm shift plan more-than-human, because their direct influence evolving environment. This is intended dialogue ecologists members professions, thus cities around world.

Language: Английский

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Urban surface uses for climate resilient and sustainable cities: A catalogue of solutions DOI Creative Commons
Silvia Croce, Daniele Vettorato

Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 75, P. 103313 - 103313

Published: Aug. 31, 2021

In the current scenario of massive urbanization and global climate change, urban surfaces their characteristics have a key role, as they significantly influence quality life in areas, well environmental conditions. To shed light on role fostering resilient sustainable cities, this paper proposes catalogue solutions for surface use. The presents main uses suitable built environment, discusses potential conflicts synergies among them view multiple integrated utilization surfaces. Reviewing studies published last 15 years, study aims to answer three major questions: (i) which do exist, (ii) where can these be applied, (iii) benefits provide. discussion demonstrates that use might lead development opportunities improving existing environments supporting not only environmental, but also social economic resilience. Finally, it emphasizes need specific quantitative qualitative approaches address multi-disciplinary challenges posed by design implementation uses, evaluation contribution site-specific objectives.

Language: Английский

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