| Id | 2777 | |
| Author | Bustami R.A.; Beecham S.; Hopeward J. | |
| Title | Evaporative Cooling Effect of Water-Sensitive Urban Design: Comparing a Living Wall with a Porous Concrete Pavement System | |
| Reference | Bustami R.A.; Beecham S.; Hopeward J. Evaporative Cooling Effect of Water-Sensitive Urban Design: Comparing a Living Wall with a Porous Concrete Pavement System,Water (Switzerland) 14 22 |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85142429459&doi=10.3390%2fw14223759&partnerID=40&md5=c873432cda15dbb26d81d3ef96596cd7 |
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| Abstract | Living walls are becoming a widely used water-sensitive urban design technology that can deliver various economic, social and environmental benefits. One such benefit is to cool the surrounding environment through the process of evapotranspiration. This study measured the evapotranspiration from an instrumented prototype-scale living wall and calculated the resulting evaporative cooling effect. The range of the measured evapotranspiration rates from the living wall was from 41 to 90 mL/mm per plant pot. This equated to latent heat of vaporisation values from 171 to 383 MJ/month/m2. This was then compared with the performance of a non-vegetated water-sensitive urban design technology, namely, a porous concrete pavement. For a typical summer month in a warm temperate climate, it was found that a porous concrete pavement system only had between 4 and 15% of the cooling effect of an equivalent living wall. © 2022 by the authors. |
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| Keywords | Concretes; Environmental technology; Evaporation; Evaporative cooling systems; Evapotranspiration; Evaporative cooling; Evaporative cooling effects; Living wall; Pavement systems; Porous concretes; Porous pavement; Urban design; Urban heat island; Water sensitive; Water-sensitive urban design; cooling; evapotranspiration; heat island; pavement; urban design; Concrete pavements |
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