Even if you live in a hot area, a green roof will bring a cooling effect to your surroundings. Green roofs reduce the heat flux from your roof by up to 72% on hot days.

Buildings with rooftop areas smaller than 50 square metres were excluded from the analysis. Studies in the past have ...

Scientists in the Netherlands have assessed how the so-called blue-green roofs can help reduce the operating temperature of rooftop PV panels and have found they provide a significant cooling effect.

With This Self-Cooling Roof, ... In cities, roofs are a major driver of the so-called urban heat island effect, keeping urban neighborhoods several degrees warmer than less developed areas nearby.

If the 100 biggest cities in the world installed white roofs and changed their pavement to more reflective materials -- say, concrete instead of asphalt-based material -- the global cooling effect ...

The study also identified several large-scale white-roof installations, including at Auckland International ... New Zealand’s city centers benefit from the cooling effects of being near the ...

The cooling effect A ... In summer, nearly 50 per cent of the radiation is on the roof, with the balance being distributed almost equally between the east and west walls.

Researchers have analyzed how wind speed and direction affect the cooling of a rooftop PV plant with 10,806 panels. They say that winds from behind were less effective due to the roof slope and ...

Perfect for some, but not so much for others. Learn whether solar roof shingles may be a good fit for your home.

Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof and cool the building beneath it. By Cara Buckley Xiulin Ruan, a professor of ...