Two conference papers by Penn students presented at the International Building Physics Conference (IBPC) in Toronto, Canada

TAL’s postdoctoral resarcher Xiang Zhang presented papers based on research by students from Penn’s Environmental Building Design program at the IBPC conference in Toronto, Canada, July 26-27 2024. The two papers, titled “Integrating Hydrophilic Material in Constructed Wall for Evaporative Cooling in Desert Climate” and “Thermal Performance of Radiantly Cooled Rammed Earth,” were written by Ming Yan, Hemant Diyalani, Dishanka Kannan; Ningxu Luo and Jenny Yujia Cui, Max Hakkarainen, Xiang Zhang, William Braham and Dorit Aviv.