Special Issue "Pro-Environmental Decisions: Sustainable Use of Urban Rooftops"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Assoc. Prof. Steve Kardinal Jusuf
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Guest Editor
Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering (Building Services) Program, Engineering Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology, 10 Dover Drive, Singapore 138683, Singapore
Interests: urban microclimate modeling and building energy simulation; building passive design and green building technology; building information modeling
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Assoc. Prof. Soh Chew Beng
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Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering (Building Services) Program, Engineering Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology, 10 Dover Drive, Singapore 138683, Singapore
Interests: application of artificial lighting source; fabrication of porous semiconductor materials for solid state lighting, sensing and photovoltaic applications
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Asst. Prof. Elsa Feng
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Enginering Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology, Queenstown, Singapore
Interests: Data-driven microgrid operation and planning; Energy Internet and Transactive Energy; Heterogeneous energy quality and reliability
Asst. Prof. Szu-Cheng Chien
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Guest Editor
Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Interests: High performance building design and diagnostics; BIM-based Management System; Human-Computer Interaction; Human-centric lighting

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In high density urban areas, land space is very limited and precious. There are various needs to be accommodated within such limited space such as dwelling, leisure, recreation, economic activities, transportation and so on. In the last decade, driven by the need to cope with the urban heat and cool down the city, urban planners and designers are looking at ways to incorporate greenery into the buildings due to the limited land to plant more trees. As a result, rooftop garden becomes a common feature in some developed cities. “Sustainable cities” has also become a theme for city development with an aim to provide high quality living for its residents and to have resilience from external factors such as climate change, and so on. Energy security has driven the needs to find spaces and explore the solar availability in cities to generate electricity through distributed energy resources including renewables, such as solar PV and micro turbines. To build resilience on food supply, residents and local urban farmers are encouraged to grow their food close to their communities. Building rooftop is, perhaps, the major remaining open space available to address the above sustainable-driven needs.

This special issue aims to gather and collate various inititiatives, ideas and research works in the sustainable use of rooftop use in cities. It can cover, but not limited to technology advancement, economical benefit, social benefit and environmental benefit.

Assoc. Prof. Steve Kardinal Jusuf
Assoc. Prof. Soh Chew Beng
Asst. Prof. Elsa Feng
Asst. Prof. Szu-Cheng Chien
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • Urban rooftops
  • Sustainable and creative ideas
  • Multi-dimension benefits
  • Experiment studies
  • Case studies

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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