Hashem Akbari
Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract:
Cool roofs, cool pavement, and shade trees reduce summertime air conditioning
cool energy use in buildings. They also modify the urban surface heat balance
and hence reduce the hot ambient temperature. In this seminar, we will briefly
review these urban heat-island mitigation technologies and introduces thoughts
for development of local implementation policies.
BIO:
Dr. Hashem Akbari is a Group Leader, Staff Scientist, and principal investigator
in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory. He has obtained his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of
California, Berkeley. He is the leader of the Heat Island Group and has led
LBNL's efforts to investigate the energy conservation potential and environmental
impacts of increased tree planting and modifications of surface reflectance.
Development of cool colored roofing materials is a one of the current major
activities of his group. Dr. Akbari is the author of more than 200 articles
and coauthor of three books.