Relation between school building configuration and heat mitigation effects of lawns in urban regions

Results of this study show how heat mitigation effects of planting elementary school lawns in urban regions differ according to eight school building configurations and two surrounding building models. Results show the following. 1) Heat mitigation effects with high-rise buildings (MODEL_H) are higher than those with normal height buildings (MODEL_N) for eight school building configurations. 2) For MODEL_H, with higher surrounding buildings, enclosure-type school building configurations show high heat mitigation effects of lawns in terms of temperature differences. 3)School building configurations with no west-facing school buildings show high heat mitigation effects of lawns for the new effective temperature for outdoors (OUT_SET*) both for Model_H and Model_L.