tan and green reflects the surrounding natural landscape. Georgia Erdenberger remembers the owners wanting their family beach house to have “a peaceful roof," cozy nooks, daylighting ...

In addition to having a green roof, Jacob White’s headquarters are made of 100 percent recycled steel in the main structure as well as 100 percent recycled aluminum in the window units.

Turns out, though, that a plain white roof is way better for the environment. A new study in Energy and Buildings points out that while green roofs are better than roofs painted black–which ...

The four scenarios analysed the effects of increasing the albedo of certain rooftops to 0.85 by painting them white, preferably flat and accessible roofs; increase urban green areas with a daily ...

The researchers evaluated the effectiveness of two schemes for mitigating heat-island effect and improving human thermal comfort, the "white roofs" (roofs with high albedo) and the "green roofs ...