Bring to Orlando: White Parking Lots and Roads

Guardtop (Website) makes a white sealant called CoolSeal by GuardTop®, that, when applied to black roads and parking lots, can decrease the surface heat reflected off black pavement by 10-15%. Watch the Video

Like cool roofs, which are lighter-colored and keep the air both inside and outside the building cooler by reflecting more of the sun’s energy, cool pavements reflect more of the sun’s energy.

The benefits of cool pavements extend beyond just cooling the local ambient air. More reflective parking lots allow building owners and cities to save on energy needed to illuminate streets and parking lots. 

(Bring to Orlando is a feature and way of thinking we introduced to the blog in 2010. It finds value in other cities' ideas as resources for making our city better.)