CEN/WS 107 - Mitigation of Urban Heat Island effects with cool materials
The CEN Workshop will focus on boosting the appropriation by cities of cool materials to mitigate the Urban Heat Island effects. By facilitating the use of cool material, the local actors will be able to reach their objectives in term of carbon emission while ensuring the comfort of their users. The CEN Workshop will also improve the cross-border cooperation in European Union (and beyond). For these purposes, this CEN Workshop on cool materials will: develop a common terminology, Encourage exchange of experience and know-how Identify good practices and produce methods to implement cool materials on territories and mitigate the Urban Heat Island effects. The workshop will propose a first European document on cool materials to inform the European Commission, local authorities and users about the cool materials and their uses to pave the way for future standardization of cool materials and their implementation The proposer and secretariat holder of this workshop is the French national organization for standardization, AFNOR.
Mitigation of Urban Heat Island effects with cool materials
The CEN Workshop will focus on boosting the appropriation by cities of cool materials to mitigate the Urban Heat Island effects. By facilitating the use of cool material, the local actors will be able to reach their objectives in term of carbon emission while ensuring the comfort of their users. The CEN Workshop will also improve the cross-border cooperation in European Union (and beyond). For these purposes, this CEN Workshop on cool materials will: develop a common terminology, Encourage exchange of experience and know-how Identify good practices and produce methods to implement cool materials on territories and mitigate the Urban Heat Island effects. The workshop will propose a first European document on cool materials to inform the European Commission, local authorities and users about the cool materials and their uses to pave the way for future standardization of cool materials and their implementation The proposer and secretariat holder of this workshop is the French national organization for standardization, AFNOR.
General Information
The document provides the terminology relating to cool materials and a guide to the implementation of cool surfaces for building envelopes to mitigate the urban overheating effects. It concentrates on the application to roofs.
The document will focus on urban areas for local authorities and building/construction owners.
The users of CWA 17890:2022 will be local authorities, urban planners for cities including construction, infrastructures and landscape architects.
In addition, the terminology and characteristics of cool materials will serve as a reference for other applications where the use of cool materials will have a significant contribution to adaptation to climate change as well as quality of life, such as for roads and pavements.
Whilst reflective surfaces can be very beneficial, they are not appropriate or effective in all climates for all buildings or building constructions and some guidance is provided.
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