Depending on the type of finishing layer, roofs can absorb a great amount of heat and reach quite high temperatures on their outermost surface, which determines significant room overheating. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.īuilding roofs play a very important role in the energy balance of buildings, especially in summer, when they are hit by a rather high solar irradiance. Costanzo Received 1 July 2013 Accepted 10 September 2013 Academic Editor: Fu-Yun ZhaoĬopyright © 2013 V Costanzo et al. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to V. Noceraĭepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Catania, VialeA. Study on the Application of Cool Paintings for the Passive Cooling of Existing Buildings in Mediterranean Climates ![]() Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Mechanical Engineering Volume 2013, Article ID 413675,10 pages
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