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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

D. Tudiwer, A. Korjenic:
"Thermic Features Of Facade Greening";
Keynote Lecture: Vienna young Scientists Symposium 2015, Wien; 2015-06-25 - 2015-06-26; in: "Vienna young Scientists Symposium 2015", Published by Book-of-Abstracts.com, (2015), ISBN: 978-3-9504017-0-7; 74 - 75.



English abstract:
The worldwide projections show, that cities will grow within the next decades. In 2050 two of three human beings will live in cities. This causes that the density of the buildings in urban areas will increase. Green areas will decrease and be replaced by buildings. The livability of big cities depend highly on green areas and plants. One of their features is, that they reduce the heat on very hot days. First this is important,because heat in cities can be very dangerous. Many people die because of the extreme heat. As the number of very hot days increases (because of climate change) in urban areas much faster, than in rural areas [1] [2], the number of dying people because of extreme heat increase also. Second it is important to reduce heat on very hot days, because of the demand of electricity. Air-conditions demand electricity, which causes more power plants.
But green areas can even more. They also reduce dust, noise, flooding and raise the air humanity on dry days [3]. Caused by the growing density of buildings in cities, the areas on the buildings themselves have to be used for greening. For many scientists facade greening is the best way, to react against the climate change sustainable.
These are features of facade greening that are already known. But as facade greening covers the building, what reasonable assumes, that it reduces the heat demand of the building. This is researched in this project.

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