Abstract:
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Nature-based solutions applied to the building skin, such as green roofs and vertical greenery systems,
are standing out as the most promising by contributing with thermal improvements at building scale.
From previous research done by GREiA research group at the University of Lleida (Spain), energy savings
up to 58% were obtained by implementing vertical greenery systems on external building walls for
cooling purposes. However, since there exist other passive and active energy saving technologies in the
literature review that were limited their cooling and heating capacity after implementing internal heat
loads, new experimental tests for two different vertical greenery systems simulating the heat loads in
both, summer and winter were conducted in this research. Additionally, these experiments also improve
the scarce and controversial literature for winter conditions. The results demonstrated that considering
internal loads in experimental investigations is crucial for the results of the effectiveness of the green
walls and green facades. The energy savings of VGS were reduced between 22.5% and 26.7% because of
the internal loads for cooling purposes, and increased about 3.6% and 3.1% for heating. |