SEATTLE — With warmer weather on the way, you may be focused on home improvements to keep your home cool. Believe it or not, a new roof can help regulate your house’s temperature. “When we do a ...

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Painting rooftops white or covering them with a reflective coating is the best way to reduce air temperature in a city like London during a heatwave. These “cool roofs” should perform better than ...

Faced with rising energy costs, building owners and managers are discovering that light-colored, reflective roofs can play a critical role in cutting energy consumption. The State of California agrees ...

To protect urban residents from heat during summer, simply painting every rooftop white or opting for a reflective coating could help reduce outdoor temperatures across a city by 1.2 degrees Celsius, ...

As the demand for energy-efficient building products increases, metal roofs are being praised for their long-term cost-cutting potential. Although solar-reflective coatings for roofs have been ...

A research team led by Prof. Lu Lin Vivien (left), Professor of the Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering at PolyU, along with key team member Dr Quan Gong (right), Postdoctoral ...

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