Publications
Measured energy savings from the application of reflective roofs in 3 AT&T regeneration buildings. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2000. LBNL-47075.
. "Cool construction materials offer energy savings and help reduce smog." ASTM Standardization News 23 (1995) 32-37.
. "Cooling energy savings potential of reflective roofs for residential and commercial buildings in the United States." Energy - The International Journal 25 (1999) 391-407.
. "Free convective laminar flow within the trombe wall channel." Solar Energy 22.2 (1979) 165-174.
. . "Hashem Akbari speaks to BBC Radio World Service about global cooling." BBC. 2009. Television.
. Characterizing the fabric of the urban environment: a case study of metropolitan Chicago, Illinois. 2001. LBNL-49275.
. "Cool systems for hot cities." Professional Roofing 32-35 (1998) 1-5. LBL-43814.
. "Potentials of urban heat island mitigation." Proceedings of the 1st International Passive and Low Energy Cooling for the Built Evironment 2005: 11.
. . "Proceedings of the Workshop on Cool Building Materials." Workshop on Cool Building Materials, National Institute of Standards and Technology 1994. LBL-35514.
. "Calculations in support of SSP 90.1 for reflective roofs." ASHRAE Transactions 104.1A (1998) 984-995.
. "ASTM standards for measuring solar reflectance and infrared emittance of construction materials and comparing their steady-state surface temperatures." 1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1996: 1-11.
. "Cool communities." Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy 1 (2000) 305-8. LBL-44129.
. "Measured energy savings of light-colored roofs: results from three California demonstration sites." 1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1998: 1-13.
. "Cooling down the house: residential roofing products soon will boast "cool" surfaces." Professional Roofing March (2005).
. "Cool buildings and cool communities." Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Buildings and the Environment 1997: 301-308.
. . "Electricity production and cooling energy savings from installation of a building-integrated photovoltaic roof on an office building." Energy and Buildings 56 (2013) 210 - 220.
. "By Degrees: White Roofs Catch On as Energy Cost Cutters." The New York Times 2009.
. "Building energy efficiency and fire safety aspects of reflective coatings." Energy and Buildings 22 (1995) 187-191.
. "Preliminary survey of the solar reflectance of cool roofing materials." Energy and Buildings 25 (1997) 149-158.
. . "Aging of reflective roofs: soot deposition." Applied Optics 41 (2002) 2355-2360.
. "Weathering of roofing materials – An overview." Construction and Building Materials 22.4 (2008) 423-433.
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