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Demonstration Of Cooling Savings Of Light Colored Roof Surfacing In Florida Commercial Buildings: Our Savior's School, Florida Solar Energy Center, Danny Parker
Demonstration Of Cooling Savings Of Light Colored Roof Surfacing In Florida Commercial Buildings: Our Savior's School, Florida Solar Energy Center, Danny Parker
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Architects and designers have long known that light-colored building roofs can reduce cooling needs. Recently, monitoring studies in Florida have made an effort to quantify these savings. Experiments in existing residences have shown that a white reflective roof can reduce cooling requirements by an average of 20%. However, until now there has been no investigation in Florida's climate to examine the potential in commercial scale buildings.
To remedy this need, a two year study was performed on a private elementary school building in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Our Savior's Elementary School was monitored for an entire year in a base line …