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A combined experimental and simulation method for appraising the energy performance of green roofs in Ningbo’s Chinese climate

Georgios Kokogiannakis( ), Jo Darkwa, Kate Yuan
Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET), The University of Nottingham, 199 Taikang East Road, Ningbo 315100, China
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Abstract

A passive means of lowering the energy demand of buildings is the application of green roofs. The complexity between heat and moisture exchanges in green roof layers and the large variations of green roof types make the need for experimental or simulation assessments necessary for quantifying the energy benefits from green roofs. The current treatment of green roofs in simulation programs is either over-simplistic, for example by ignoring heat and moisture exchanges such as evapotranspiration, or the more advanced models have limitations and require inputs that are rarely available in practice. In this paper a combination of experimental and modelling techniques are used to assess the potential heating and cooling load reductions from the application of green roofs in the subtropical climate of Ningbo in China. The method provides a generalised energy performance assessment of green roofs in Ningbo by overcoming the limitations of existing green roof simulation models.

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green roofsenergy and carbon savingsintegrated building energy simulationmeasuring boundary conditions

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Building Simulation
Volume 7 Issue 1,
February 2014
Pages 13-20
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-013-0149-0
Cite this article:
Kokogiannakis G, Darkwa J, Yuan K. A combined experimental and simulation method for appraising the energy performance of green roofs in Ningbo’s Chinese climate. Building Simulation, 2014, 7(1): 13-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-013-0149-0

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Received: 16 February 2013
Revised: 21 June 2013
Accepted: 04 July 2013
Published: 25 September 2013
© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
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