Herb Van Gent points his infrared gun at a square of still unpainted gray shingle and clicks the trigger. He gets an immediate temperature reading: 143 degrees and rising. Then he aims it 5 feet away ...

White roofs are one of those climate solutions that sound too good to be true. Compared to solar panels and electric cars, painting the roof of a building white is a suspiciously cheap, analog way to ...

Austin, April 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Roof Coating Market Size was valued at 2.66 Billion in 2023 and is expected to reach USD 3.64 Billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 3.54% over the ...

A zoomed-in shot of a paint roller being applied to a roof. The roller is white with its application product. In the right setting, a cool-roof coating can cut the energy consumption of a building by ...

Berkeley Lab engineers have developed a roof coating that can keep a building warmer or cooler, depending on the weather. When it’s warm out, the material will reflect sunlight and heat, but this ...

New York and other cities see a climate fix in white paint, which is coating more rooftops as way to cool buildings and cut energy use. They may soon have another option: paint made of glass.

Before they were provided with white paint, women in Badi Bhil Basti used to dampen the curtains inside to try and keep cool (Credit: Mitul Kajaria) Extreme heat is having a detrimental impact on ...

CEBU, Philippines - Paint your roofs white for a greener tomorrow. This is what some 100 volunteers were trying to tell the people when they painted 20 roofs in Barangay Luz yesterday as one of the ...