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Green roofs; building energy savings and the potential for retrofit |
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| Authors: | HF Castleton V Stovin |
| Affiliation: | a E-Futures DTC, Department of Engineering Materials, Sir Robert Hadfield Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK b Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK c Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK |
| Abstract: | Green roofs are a passive cooling technique that stop incoming solar radiation from reaching the building structure below. Many studies have been conducted over the past 10 years to consider the potential building energy benefits of green roofs and shown that they can offer benefits in winter heating reduction as well as summer cooling.This paper reviews the current literature and highlights the situations in which the greatest building energy savings can be made. Older buildings with poor existing insulation are deemed to benefit most from a green roof as current building regulations require such high levels of insulation that green roofs are seen to hardly affect annual building energy consumption.As over half of the existing UK building stock was built before any roof insulation was required, it is older buildings that will benefit most from green roofs. The case for retrofitting existing buildings is therefore reviewed and it is found there is strong potential for green roof retrofit in the UK. |
| Keywords: | Green roof Energy consumption Structural capacity Retrofit Insulation |
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