Thermal Behavior and Energy Efficiency of Modified Concretes in the Tropical Climate: A Systemic Review

Concrete remains the most utilised construction material for building envelopes, which regulate indoor temperature to achieve human thermal comfort. Often, energy consumption performance appraisal is related behaviour of materials as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems all variously contribute Following development concrete technology, many types have been invented serve several purposes in industry. To clearly understand type tailored specifics a project, local climate, mechanical properties, behaviours should be primarily identified efficiency, also suits sustainability global materials. This paper, therefore, reviews modified tropical climate more systematic city planning order better efficiency. Urban heat islands tropics contributing factors, well transfer mechanisms, are first highlighted. The requirements envelopes then discussed through specific capacity, conductivity, diffusivity, time lag, decrement factor context applications regions. With case study, it found that directly affect attributed mainly use cooling tropics. study can reference mitigating urban island phenomenon development.