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Optimizing retro-reflective surfaces to untrap radiation and cool cities
Extreme heat and its various impacts are a growing threat to cities and their residents, and it is increasingly clear that portfolios of solutions are needed to mitigate the resulting risks. Here we comprehens...
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Open AccessSustainability of international research: evidence from an H2020 European project
Greenhouse gas emissions reduction is a critical topic in the scientific community, as researchers strive to produce knowledge for the betterment of society. However, it is important to acknowledge that resear...
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Introduction
As cities grow, they become more significant contributors to climate change while also being vulnerable to its effects, posing risks also for their citizens’ health and well-being. Urgent actions are needed to...
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Open AccessSustainable management in the slow fashion industry: carbon footprint of an Italian brand
Environmental impacts associated with the fashion industry concern society and require commitment to sustainable development goals from leading companies. The role of the luxury sector in setting trends and ne...
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Open AccessEffect of time-of-day on human dynamic thermal perception
Implementing heating and cooling set-point temperature modulations in buildings can promote energy savings and boost energy flexibility. However, time and time-of-day requirements in current indoor climate reg...
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Smart-Earth Multifunctional Cement Composites for Sustainable Constructions: Thermal and Sensing Characterization
In the last years, the sensitivity towards environmental impacts of industrial activities is of growing interest. Construction sector, with particular reference to cement-based materials, possesses a high envi...
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Phase Change Materials Shape Stabilized in Biochar for Energy Efficiency and Structural Strength Enhancement in Buildings
In this work, a commercial phase change material (PCM) was stabilized in biochar, by vacuum impregnation technique and later incorporated into cement pastes to be used in real building applications. The select...
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Open AccessMulti-domain human-oriented approach to evaluate human comfort in outdoor environments
Human comfort outdoors is widely investigated, but most studies explore the comfort domains singularly. This paper aimed to evaluate human comfort in parks, verifying the importance of using a multi-domain (si...
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Open AccessA Global Building Occupant Behavior Database
This paper introduces a database of 34 field-measured building occupant behavior datasets collected from 15 countries and 39 institutions across 10 climatic zones covering various building types in both commer...
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Human Adaptation to Higher Ambient Temperature
The on-going climate change is leading to a progressively warmer world where extreme weather events, including heat waves (HWs), are going to be more frequent and intense. While limiting the anthropogenic cont...
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Quantum Confinement Effects in Materials for Daytime Radiative Cooling: An Ab-initio Investigation
We have here performed a campaign of first-principles calculations comparing the effect of confinement in two \(\text {ABO}_{3}\) ...
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A Mobile Vehicle-Based Methodology for Dynamic Microclimate Analysis
Accurate monitoring is critical for better understanding cities’ microclimate conditions and safeguard citizens’ health. Previous studies have performed microclimate analyses of urbanized areas by implementing...
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Open AccessIntra-urban microclimate investigation in urban heat island through a novel mobile monitoring system
Monitoring microclimate variables within cities with high accuracy is an ongoing challenge for a better urban resilience to climate change. Assessing the intra-urban characteristics of a city is of vital impor...
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Cool Materials for Passive Cooling in Buildings
Cool materials are an acknowledged, environmentally friendly and relatively cost-effective solution that can be easily integrated in the built environment with the threefold aim of reducing building cooling en...
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Experimental Methods for the Characterization of Materials for Latent Thermal Energy Storage
This chapter summarizes the techniques to characterize phase change materials for thermal energy storage applications. The most relevant properties include giving answer to physical, thermal, and technical req...
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Optical Characterization of Translucent Stone Subject to Degradation
Marble is an aesthetically appealing and thermodynamically ‘cool’ building material. However, when subject to weathering, marble building facade elements undergo surface degradation that result in changes to a...
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Nanotech-Based Cool Materials for Building Energy Efficiency
Cool materials represent an interesting and acknowledged solution able to produce a threefold benefit: the reduction of cooling energy needs in buildings, the mitigation of the urban heat island phenomenon, th...
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Existing Buildings’ Energy Upgrade: An Economical and Environmentally Sustainable Opportunity
Given the huge amount of energy consumption imputable to existing buildings, and the relatively slow buildings’ substitution in both urban and suburban areas all over the world, building energy upgrade, starti...
