Sustain Magazine Features Cool Roofs GCCA Article

Posted by gcca on October 23, 2013

GCCA recently submitted a short article to the University of Louisville’s SUSTAIN Magazine summarizing the building, city, and global benefits of reflective surfaces. While this won’t be news to many of you, I think it is always helpful to try to raise awareness amongst new audiences.

GCCA Discusses Cool Roofs on NPR

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GCCA’s Executive Director, Kurt Shickman participated in the Midday with Dan Rodricks show on NPR station WYPR in Baltimore. I was joined Joan Jacobson, author of the newly released Cool Roofs for a Cooler Baltimore report for the Abell Foundation. The show aired at noon on Thursday, October 31st. Here is a link to the  Read More…

Cities are Adding Cool Roofs to Their Codes

Posted by adickie on October 15, 2013

Over the last few years, cool roofs have begun to make their way into the building codes throughout the country. Cool roofs made its first appearance in building codes in California’s Title 24 in 2005, requiring initial solar reflectance (SR) of 0.70 and initial thermal emittance (TE) of 0.75 on low-sloped commercial buildings throughout the  Read More…

GCCA Releases Cool Roofs and Global Cooling Issue Brief

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There are a number of papers that support the idea that reflecting solar energy back out into space would offset the warming effect of atmospheric CO2. For a high-level overview of how it works and the state of the research, check out this GCCA Issue Brief. GCCA regularly publishes Issue Briefs on hot topics covering  Read More…

GCCA Releases Cool Roofs and Global Cooling Issue Brief

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There are a number of papers that support the idea that reflecting solar energy back out into space would offset the warming effect of atmospheric CO2. For a high-level overview of how it works and the state of the research, check out this GCCA Issue Brief. GCCA regularly publishes Issue Briefs on hot topics covering  Read More…