Lead roofs tick environmental boxes. Lead gives off an extremely prolonged existence across its lifecycle and maintains total recycling possibilities. The UK construction industry acquires most lead materials used for roofs from recycling initiatives. Because lead roofs last longer there will be less w...
Hemp has been in use to produce biobased natural fibre insulation in the UK in recent years. With further development in hemp agronomy, production process and selection of raw materials in the production, hemp-based insulation materials are likely to become environmentally and functionally superior ...
To gauge the city-wide prospects of blue-green roofs, we estimated their potential surface area for different parts of the city (‘urban catchments’) that are prone to pluvial flooding. A roof is classified as suitable if it is flat and larger than 200 m2 (blue-green roofs need to ha...
The lack of permeability also helps prevent corrosion of metal substrates and makes the coatings highly resistant to algae and fungi. Antioxidants and light stabilizers ensure the coating system’s durability throughout the roofing system’s service life. The SEBS...
Therefore, unsteady-state conjugate heat transfer theory is applied to the numerical simulation of the FSPR method [12], which has been applied to the simulation of high-pressure turbines and certain fluid-related parts of aircraft [13]. The term conjugate heat transfer refers to a heat ...
Although the effluents from kitchen sinks and dishwashers are also referred to as BW in some parts of the world [4]. Most often, these three types of wastewater are mixed and discharged into the sewer system. GW accounts for 16–200 L per capita per day, representing up to 75% of the...
We located all sensors horizontally at a depth of 7/8 cm, and we connected them to a central apparatus (Campbell CR1000, Campbell Sci, Shepshed, Leicestershire, UK) which recorded incoming data every 20 min. Finally, we calculated the water holding capacity according to standardized methodology...