Indoor thermal performance of turf roof slabs

Abstract

In the past few decades the scientists had focus their attention more on sustainable development because of the energy crisis, while has reached to an alarming level. Energy requirement of urbanized arrears is rising at an increasing rate. Since people are more concern about thermal comfort, it can further accelerated with expected global climatic changes. The impact of the environment due to urbanization lead us way towards sustainable development. The traditional construction methods are replacing with new innovations and trends shows that the traditional sloping roof are replaced by flat slabs, since it can create another usable space at the roof level and also a green environment at the roof level. Buildings coupled with greenery will be an ideal solution for many environmental and social issues face by the occupants mainly in urban areas. The life cycle performance can be used to access its long term performance of the grass roof slabs and can be used to compare the new system with existing arrangements. It was shown that green roof slabs could have a desirable behavior with respect to life cycle performance in addition to providing other benefits such as cyclone resistance, aesthetics, use as an outdoor living space, and higher robustness to the building.