On a typical summer day, it might be 10-12 degrees cooler in leafy sections of Boston than it is downtown, because unshaded pavement and roofs absorb and radiate so much heat. Reducing pavement or ...
Similar to cool roofs, light-colored pavement developed by a Phoenix company is designed to reduce the urban heat island effect and reflect heat back into space. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...
Some U.S. cities are experimenting with reflective pavement coating to cool hot streets while the two largest North Texas cities have rejected those street coatings. In this heatwave, pavement bakes ...
Asphalt installed properly will last for decades. Asphalt installed incorrectly may only last a few months. This is a specialized process and we are experts at what we do! An "overlay" is the paving ...