Years ago, I walked onto the roof of the Palo Alto Research Center. The nondescript beige building in Silicon Valley, known for groundbreaking technology, is the birthplace of the mouse, laser ...

AI-designed materials cool better than paint and save energy. Their uses span homes, clothes, and space tech. A new class of ...

This detailed guide to average pricing for a new roof project explains how much a standing seam metal roof costs.

Not into regular solar panels? The Tesla Solar Roof offers a more visually appealing aesthetic. But be warned: Solar panels are not cheap.

A family installed an eco-friendly roof filled with chives, succulents and other plants to manage storm water runoff and add insulation.

Solar shingles are not mounted on racks like other solar panels. Instead, they are attached directly to the roof deck in place of conventional roofing shingles.

The conventional wisdom about asphalt-shingle roofs—that you will need to replace yours roughly every 20 to 30 years—dissolves like a wet conventional Kleenex when you get some facts. Your ...

In fact, a cool, reflective roof could stay more than 50°F cooler on a sunny day compared to a conventional roof.

A conventional roof might let 100 percent of rain run off, allowing water to pour into streets, but a green roof, depending on its structure and slope, “can reduce this runoff generation rate to ...

Paxos Solar also states that installing its solar tiles takes half the time of a conventional roof installation and is much lighter.

He explained that "solar shingles are solar cells designed to look like a conventional roof, which can be ideal for people and HOAs that don't like the look of solar panels.” ...