Resource-saving glass-foil roofing and vertical water retention system

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-resource-saving-glass-foil-roofing-vertical-retention.html

"utilizes inner roof of mobile, translucent and IR-reflective fabric... saves 75% material weight... improves construction, material transport and assembly... allows up to 95% of light pass through... circulating air between glass pane and film, interconnects with building air... in winter defrosting snow or ice loads or for thermal insulation... roof drainage system with water-storing core made of recycled bricks, sand-lime bricks and/ or aerated concrete, enabling evaporative cooling"

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