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Cool Pavements

Karlessi, Theoni / Gaitani, Niki / Synnefa, Afroditi / Santamouris, Mattheos

Surface temperature of the urban fabric plays an important role in the microclimate, the energy performance of the buildings and the comfort conditions of city dwellers. Pavements (roads, parking spaces etc.) cover a significant percentage of a city’s surface and their thermal characteristics play a dominant role in the formation of the urban heat island effect, which refers to the temperature increase in urban areas compared to rural settings. This paper reports the technologies related to cool paving materials, their thermal and optical properties and the benefits of their use in the urban structures. It also presents the experimental assessment of cool colored thin layer asphalt and the estimation of the potential to improve the urban microclimate.

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Cool Pavements

Karlessi, Theoni / Gaitani, Niki / Synnefa, Afroditi / Santamouris, Mattheos

Surface temperature of the urban fabric plays an important role in the microclimate, the energy performance of the buildings and the comfort conditions of city dwellers. Pavements (roads, parking spaces etc.) cover a significant percentage of a city’s surface and their thermal characteristics play a dominant role in the formation of the urban heat island effect, which refers to the temperature increase in urban areas compared to rural settings. This paper reports the technologies related to cool paving materials, their thermal and optical properties and the benefits of their use in the urban structures. It also presents the experimental assessment of cool colored thin layer asphalt and the estimation of the potential to improve the urban microclimate.

Cool Pavements

Karlessi, Theoni / Gaitani, Niki / Synnefa, Afroditi / Santamouris, Mattheos

Surface temperature of the urban fabric plays an important role in the microclimate, the energy performance of the buildings and the comfort conditions of city dwellers. Pavements (roads, parking spaces etc.) cover a significant percentage of a city’s surface and their thermal characteristics play a dominant role in the formation of the urban heat island effect, which refers to the temperature increase in urban areas compared to rural settings. This paper reports the technologies related to cool paving materials, their thermal and optical properties and the benefits of their use in the urban structures. It also presents the experimental assessment of cool colored thin layer asphalt and the estimation of the potential to improve the urban microclimate.

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Title:

Cool Pavements

Contributors:

Karlessi, Theoni (author) / Gaitani, Niki (author) / Synnefa, Afroditi (author) / Santamouris, Mattheos (author)

Published in:

Advances in the Development of Cool Materials for the Built Environment ; 1

Publication date:

2013

ISBN:

978-1-60805-597-5 , 978-1-60805-471-8

Type of media:

Article/Chapter (Book)

Type of material:

Electronic Resource

Language:

English

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics. , Cool pavements , reduction of cooling demand , urban heat island

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