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| URI: | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/D6DE337F-55F2-4B09-A50C-6987FC4D1157 | ||
| Year | 2009 | ||
| Type of Item | Conference Full Paper | ||
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| Bibliographic Citation | A. Synnefa, M. Santamouris, D. Kolokotsa," Promotion of Cool Roofs ιn the EU-The Cool Roofs Project," in 2nd International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands (SICCUHI'09), September. | ||
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Cool roofs technology is an energy efficient, financially viable and sustainable solution formitigating the heat island effect and its consequences and for reducing building energyconsumption for cooling. This technology is well known and applied in the U.S.: it is a part ofthe energy code in many states, organizations like the Environmental Protection Agency(USEPA, Energy Star) and the U.S. Cool Roof Rating Council and programs and incentives arepromoting it. In Europe, this technology is not extensively known and very little informationexists on cool roof products and their benefits. Several barriers explain this situation and they canbe summarized in four categories: Lack of awareness, Lack of experience, Lack of incentivesand Skepticism.This paper presents the Cool Roofs project, an EU supported project aiming to removethese barriers by the implementation of an Action Plan for the promotion, market transformationand changing behavior towards cool roofs technology in the European Union. The work will bedeveloped in four axes: technical, market, policy and end-users. The Action Plan will be steeredby the development of the EU Cool Roofs Council that will bring together under the sameumbrella all related stakeholders.
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