Recent progress on building products for heat mitigation (Mat Santamouris, UNSW, AU)

 

Social housing temperatures in NSW exceed health and safety limits: study

Many low-income households can endure temperatures in their homes close to 40°C during summer and as little as 5°C during winter.


Many residents in social housing in New South Wales can experience alarming levels of winter underheating and summer overheating in their homes that do not meet standards for comfort and health, according to UNSW Sydney-led research funded by the Department of Planning and Environment and CRC for Low Carbon Living.

Energy Efficiency & Roofing by Colorbond (Compass 2022)

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Recent Progress on Urban Heat Mitigation Technologies (Webinar)

Regional climate change in cities is the most documented phenomenon of climate change. Higher urban temperatures are documented experimentally for more than 450 major cities in the world. Numerous investigations demonstrate that the mean magnitude of the temperature increase may exceed 4-6 C, while at the peak it may exceed 10 C. The serious increase of the frequency and the strength of heat waves creates strong synergies between the global and regional climate change and intensify the magnitude of the overheating Urban overheating causes a serious impact both

Long term solutions to living in climate change?

 

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Cool Roof Technology More Than Just Groovy

 

Earlier this year, the NSW Government dumped a plan to phase out dark roofs in favour of cooler, lighter coloured roofs on new homes.

But new research from UNSW shows the adoption of so-called cool roof technology would significantly reduce energy bills, lower indoor temperatures, and improve the health of vulnerable people.