Publications: Building Technology and Urban Systems Division

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2023

Levinson, Ronnen M, Edward A Arens, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Vincenzo Corrado, Haley E Gilbert, Peter Holzer, Pierre Jaboyedoff, Amanda Krelling, Anaïs Machard, Wendy Miller, Mamak P.Tootkaboni, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Hui Zhang."Policy Recommendations from IEA EBC Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings." (2023). DOI
Lee, Sang Hoon, and Ronnen M Levinson."Cool envelope benefits in future typical weather and heatwave conditions for single-family homes in Los Angeles." (2023). DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M, Mansour Alhazmi, Jackson Becce, Andre Desjarlais, Haley E Gilbert, Greg Kats, Jacob Miller, Emily Morin, David J Sailor, and Sarah Schneider."United States Cool Surfaces Deployment Plan." (2023). DOI

2022

Tang, Xiaochen, Lara Ughetta, Rachael A.T Gould, Rebecca L.A Everman, Taisiya Skorina, Sharon S Chen, Maureen Kavanagh, Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats."Pilot-scale NOx removal efficacy of photocatalytic roofing granules under urban environmental conditions."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 247 (2022). DOI

2021

Sun, Kaiyu, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ronnen M Levinson, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities."Energy and Buildings 252 (2021) 111383. DOI
Celniker, Chloe, Sharon S Chen, Alan K Meier, and Ronnen M Levinson."Targeting buildings for energy-saving cool-wall retrofits: a case study at the University of California, Davis."Energy and Buildings 249 (2021) 111014. DOI
Tang, Xiaochen, Olivier Rosseler, Sharon S Chen, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Michael J Lussier, Jiachen Zhang, George Ban Weiss, Haley E Gilbert, Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats."Self-cleaning and de-pollution efficacies of photocatalytic architectural membranes."Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (2021). DOI

2019

Gilbert, Haley E, Tom Jacobs, Seongeun Jeong, Melvin Pomerantz, Dev Millstein, Doug Norsby, Andrea Repinsky, and Ronnen M Levinson."Heat Island Mitigation Assessment and Policy Development for the Kansas City Region." (2019). DOI
Tang, Xiaochen, Lara Ughetta, Simon K Shannon, Sharon S Chen, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Rachael A.T Gould, Marion L Russell, Jiachen Zhang, George A Ban-Weiss, Rebecca L.A Everman, Frank W Klink, Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats."De-pollution efficacy of photocatalytic roofing granules."Building and Environment 160 (2019). DOI
Singh, Reshma, Mary Ann Piette, Ashok J Gadgil, Rajan Rawal, Narendra Bansal, Vishal Garg, Jyotirmay Mathur, Philip Haves, Paul A Mathew, Christian Kohler, Mahabir Bhandari, Gail Brager, Vivian Loftness, Narendran Nadarajah, Ronnen M Levinson, Richard E Brown, Andre Desjarlais, Milind Rane, Sanyogita Manu, Yash Shukla, and Mona Doctor-Pingel."R&D and Implementation Outcomes From The U.S.-India Bilateral Center For Building Energy Research And Development Program." (2019). DOI
Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, Jonathan L Slack, Leo I Rainer, and Ronnen M Levinson."Sealed and Insulated Attic Hygrothermal Performance in New California Homes Using Vapor and Air Permeable Insulation—Field Study and Simulations." (2019).
Levinson, Ronnen M, George A Ban-Weiss, Paul Berdahl, Sharon S Chen, Hugo Destaillats, Nathalie Dumas, Haley E Gilbert, Howdy Goudey, Sébastien Houzé de l’Aulnoit, Jan Kleissl, Benjamin Kurtz, Yun Li, Yan Long, Arash Mohegh, Negin Nazarian, Matteo Pizzicotti, Pablo J Rosado, Marion L Russell, Jonathan L Slack, Xiaochen Tang, Jiachen Zhang, and Weilong Zhang."Solar-Reflective “Cool” Walls: Benefits, Technologies, and Implementation." (2019). DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M, Howdy Goudey, Sharon S Chen, Haley E Gilbert, George A Ban-Weiss, Joseph Ko, Yun Li, Arash Mohegh, Angie Rodriguez, Jonathan L Slack, Haider Taha, Tianbo Tang, and Jiachen Zhang."Monitoring the Urban Heat Island Effect and the Efficacy of Future Countermeasures." (2019). DOI

2018

Chen, Sharon S, Hugo Destaillats, Jing Ge, and Ronnen M Levinson."Calibration of laboratory aging practice to replicate changes to roof albedo in a Chinese city." (2018).

2017

Gao, Yafeng, Dachuan Shi, Ronnen M Levinson, Rui Guo, Changqing Lin, and Jing Ge."Thermal performance and energy savings of white and sedum-tray garden roof: A case study in a Chongqing office building."Energy and Buildings 156 (2017) 343 - 359. DOI
Gilbert, Haley E, Pablo J Rosado, George A Ban-Weiss, John T Harvey, Hui Li, Benjamin H Mandel, Dev Millstein, Arash Mohegh, Arash Saboori, and Ronnen M Levinson."Energy and environmental consequences of a cool pavement campaign." (2017).
Levinson, Ronnen M, Haley E Gilbert, Melvin Pomerantz, John T Harvey, and George A Ban-Weiss."Recent cool pavement research highlights: Quantifying the energy and environmental consequences of cool pavements." (2017).
Pomerantz, Melvin."Are Cooler Surfaces a Cost-Effect Mitigation of Urban Heat Islands?."Urban Climate (2017). DOI

2016

Levinson, Ronnen M, Sharon S Chen, George A Ban-Weiss, Haley E Gilbert, Paul H Berdahl, Pablo J Rosado, Hugo Destaillats, Mohamad Sleiman, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."Next-Generation Factory-Produced Cool Asphalt Shingles: Phase 1 Final Report." (2016).
Berdahl, Paul H, Sharon S Chen, Hugo Destaillats, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Ronnen M Levinson, and Michael A Zalich."Fluorescent Cooling of Objects Exposted to Sunlight - The Ruby Example."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 157 (2016) 312-317. DOI

2015

Pomerantz, Melvin, Pablo J Rosado, and Ronnen M Levinson."A Simple Tool for Estimating City-Wide Annual Electrical Energy Savings from Cooler Surfaces."Urban Climate 14.2 (2015) 315 - 325. DOI
Sleiman, Mohamad, Sharon S Chen, Haley E Gilbert, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Paul H Berdahl, Erica Bibian, Laura S Bruckman, Dominic Cremona, Roger H French, Devin A Gordon, Marco Emiliani, Justin Kable, Liyan Ma, Milena Martarelli, Riccardo Paolini, Matthew Prestia, John Renowden, Gian Marco Revel, Olivier Rosseler, Ming Shiao, Giancarolo Terraneo, Tammy Yang, Lingtao Yu, Michele Zinzi, Hashem Akbari, Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats."Soiling of building envelope surfaces and its effect on solar reflectance – Part III: Interlaboratory study of an accelerated aging method for roofing materials."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 143 (2015) 581-590. DOI
Gilbert, Haley E, Benjamin H Mandel, and Ronnen M Levinson."Keeping California cool: Recent cool community developments."Energy and Buildings (2015). DOI

2014

Gao, Yafeng, Jiangmin Xu, Shichao Yang, Xiaomin Tang, Quan Zhou, Jing Ge, Tengfang T Xu, and Ronnen M Levinson."Cool Roofs in China: Policy Review, Building Simulations, and Proof-Of-Concept Experiments."Energy Policy 74 (2014) 190-214. DOI
Rosado, Pablo J, David Faulkner, Douglas P Sullivan, and Ronnen M Levinson."Measured temperature reductions and energy savings from a cool tile roof on a central California home."Energy and Buildings 80 (2014). DOI