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Cost–benefit analysis for green façades and living wall systems
Katia Perini,Paolo Rosasco +1 more
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In this article, the authors presented a cost-benefit analysis of different vertical greening systems (green facades and living wall systems) considering personal and social benefits and costs over their life cycle.About:
This article is published in Building and Environment.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 269 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cost–benefit analysis & Life-cycle cost analysis.read more
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Use of climbing and ornamental plants in vertical flow constructed wetlands treating greywater
Aimilia Stefanatou,S. Schiza,I. Petousi,Anacleto Rizzo,Fabio Masi,Athanasios S. Stasinakis,Nikolaos M. Fyllas,M.S. Fountoulakis +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the use of climbing ornaments and ornamental plants for greywater treatment in vertical flow constructed wetlands was studied and the results revealed that sand with or without saturation zone presented significantly higher removal rates for turbidity (94 ± 5 %) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (96 ± 7 %).
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Decision making framework for green hospital building development
TL;DR: In this paper, a decision-making framework for green building development of the public hospital is proposed. But, the main green criteria that have developed are hardly visible, yet very impactful.
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Contested Concepts, Cultures of Knowledge, and the Chimera of Change
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how contested knowledge and ideas can influence capacity to adapt to radically changing environmental and social conditions, using the idea of "framing contests" to understand some of the new ways of framing both problems and solutions.
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Implementing vertical greenery on office façade opening to improve indoor light quality
TL;DR: In this paper , the vertical greenery system (VGS) is used on facade opening, how it performs as glare limitation as well as accommodating view in a medium-rise office building on tropical climate.
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Thermally regulated green living wall
Stephanie Gouws,M.J. Gouws +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined whether the green wall has any effect on the interior temperature of the building in the hot and cold months of the year, and found that during summer months, a cooling effect of 2-4 °C was observed, while the opposite effect was observed during winter in that the temperatures did not drop by much but provided a insulating effect 2-3 °C higher than it was for the control area.
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Urban climates and heat islands: albedo, evapotranspiration, and anthropogenic heat
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