Highly Reflective Roofing Sheets Installed on a School Building to Mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effect in Osaka

Currently, strategies to mitigate urban heat island (UHI) effects and reduce building energy consumption are implemented worldwide. In Japan, as an effective means of mitigating UHI effects and saving energy of buildings, highly reflective (HR) roofs have increasingly been used. In this study, in or...

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Main Authors: Jihui Yuan, Kazuo Emura, Craig Farnham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-05-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/8/6/514