Studies on Ecological Design Strategies of Greening of Building External Wall

Abstract:

Building energy conservation has become the worldwide tendency since the mid-1970s. The Theory of Sustainable Development raised in 1990s as well as the deterioration of ecological environment made the building energy conservation became the international focus all over the world. China is a country with high energy consumption and large population and the percentage of its building energy consumption has reached about 25% on total energy consumption. The energy conservation condition of building external wall is one of the direct influencing factors of thermal comfort of indoor environment. However, greening is a kind of natural sunshade of the nature. The key to the study is how to improve the temperature of building walls and thermal comfort of indoor environment by the way of greening sunshade of external walls.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 224)
• Pages: 192-197
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.224.192
• Online since: April 2011
• Authors: Jing Wu, Hao Xie
• Keywords: Building Energy Conservation, Greening Sunshade, Indoor Environment, Thermal Comfort

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