Cool Roofs

Hunter College is a partner with the Mayor's Office as part of NYC's Cool Roofs initiative. This project helps mitigate the "heat island effect" in our city and decreases unwanted heat load inside the buildings that receive the cool roofs, helping to decrease the amount of air conditioning needed to cool these buildings on hot and sunny days. A paint that is specially formulated to deflect the heat of the sun is applied to traditional, black tar-coated roofs. Hunter College has been chosen by the Mayor's Office to kick off the 2013 Cool Roofs season. Hunter's K - 12 school has already begun to receive a cool roof (see pictures below), and even more cool roofs will be applied to buildings on our Main Campus in late May. Check back for more pictures!

You can read more about NYC's Cool Roofs initiative HERE.

Click on the thumbnail pictures below to enlarge.  (Posted on 5/10/13)