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This paper presents the importance of building’s envelop protection, the role of the building materials, the technologies and approaches involved and how the development and the use of modern high albedo coatings, based on traditional and mineral binders, could have a significant contribution in Mediterranean building’s energy performance. A number of inorganic, white and coloured, high solar reflective and breathable coating materials, based on natural and traditional binders (.i.e. waterglass, lime, natural pozzolans), synthetic and natural pigments (.i.e. burnt sienna) and/or unlimited resources (i.e. sand) have been developed. The use of such coatings in built environment and especially on building’s envelope, as a passive cooling technique, enable the improvement of indoor thermal comfort conditions and the reduction of cooling loads, driving to lower carbon dioxide emissions and to significant energy savings.
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Perdikis, P. (2017). Cooling the Future: Bridging architectural aspects from the past with modern energy efficient paints. In: Bahei-El-Din, Y., Hassan, M. (eds) Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48725-0_11
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