Green Roofs as passive cooling strategies under Temperate Climates
ZEMCH 2012 International Conference Proceedings
Autore/i: D'Orazio, Marco; DI PERNA, Costanzo; DI GIUSEPPE, Elisa
Editore: ZEMCH Network
Classificazione: 4 Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Abstract: The research aims to the comprehension of the energy performance of a green roof,
also compared to other passive cooling strategies, when realized on slabs with very low
thermal transmittance, as imposed by recent laws on the energy performance of
buildings also in Temperate Climates.
Although many studies in literature highlight the potential of green roofs on the
improvement of internal conditions (reduction of incoming heat fluxes, thermal wave
phase shift), knowledge regarding the use of these technologies in highly insulated
structures is quite limited.
All EU countries in particular, following the issuing of two important Directives (“Save”
and “Nearly Zero Energy Buildings”), are enacting decrees which have placed regulatory
requirements and strict limits to the thermal transmittance of building components.
If the “overinsulation” strategy in Temperate Climates (i.e. Italy, Greece, Spain), is useful
for the winter energy savings, it risks to limits the effectiveness of alternative passive
cooling strategies, as the use of green roofs.
We carried out a thermal monitoring of seven low U-value roof systems, differentiated by
the type of covering, the type of slab, the presence of a ventilated cavity, the presence of
a vegetated substrate.
Experimental results show that the green roof and the other passive cooling technologies
benefits, as the reduction of the incoming heat flux and internal surface temperatures,
are quite limited by the roofs high insulation imposed by actual laws, which consider the
overinsulation as the whole strategy for energy saving even in Temperate Climates.
Scheda della pubblicazione: https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/86375