SUSTAINABLE & AFFORDABLE ENERGY EFFICIENT ROOFS

SUPERHERO – Sustainability and PERformances for HEROTILE-based energy efficient roofs

Location: Italy

Date of availability on the market: January 2018

Info:

PROBLEM TARGETED

Extreme climate events have considerably increased in recent years. Urban Heat Island (UHI), the phenomenon resulting in the increase of temperature in dense areas of cities in comparison with rural areas, is then exacerbating too.

The combination of these two important phenomena will result in the coming decades in ever higher temperatures inside buildings, especially in existing ones with poor energy levels. Consequently, comfort and health problems will especially occur for weak and disadvantaged groups (elderly and sick)

SOLUTION PROPOSED

An effective, sustainable and low-cost answer to cities and buildings overheating is using building “passive cooling” technologies, which allow to reduce the temperatures of buildings envelope (roofs and walls) and consequently of the surrounding air (thus limiting Urban Heat Island), rather than increase energy demands from artificial cooling. The use of Ventilated and Permeable Roofs (VPR) is the most sustainable and promising strategy.

The “HEROTILES” developed under previous LIFE HEROTILE project even have an improved cooling ability compared to another roof technologies.