Effect of green roof on urban human settlement and indoor environment for green buildings

Author

Cai, Wei ; Wu, Zhaohui ; Wang, Huang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Civil Eng. & Archit., Ningbo Univ. of Technol., Ningbo, China

fYear

2011

fDate

22-24 April 2011

Firstpage

3102

Lastpage

3105

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of green roof on urban ecological environment and indoor environment for green buildings. The human settlement and indoor environment of green buildings and common buildings were evaluated based on green building assessment system. Results show that green roof could directly weaken the urban heat island effect and greenhouse gases. The temperature of roof inner surface is reduced, and indoor thermal comfort is effectively improved. The energy consumption in green roof buildings is not too great, but residential quality is very satisfactory. Green roof is one of effectively technical measures of development low-carbon building and low-carbon city.

Keywords

air pollution; ecology; roofs; green buildings; green roof; greenhouse gases; indoor environment; urban ecological environment; urban heat island effect; urban human settlement; Air pollution; Buildings; Green buildings; Humans; Indoor environments; Temperature measurement; building energy conservation; energy efficiency evaluation; green roof; human settlements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Technology and Civil Engineering (ICETCE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lushan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0289-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICETCE.2011.5776322

Filename

5776322