Cool Acrylic
Coatings for Walls
Now, we
have the chance to coat our buildings with special coloured coatings, highly
reflective, super-durable paint-like material, that reduces building interior
and exterior temperatures 10 to 90 degrees depending upon colour comparison,
location and original materials being over coated. They have many benefits in
the cooling of each building. Longer term savings is another key benefit.
Therefore, immediate steps toward reducing global warming are a direct benefit.
The
Necessity of Cool Acrylic Coatings for Concrete
Did you
know that concrete stores heat from the sun and it heats up our temperature
substantially due to its global use? Did you know that it deteriorates slowly
to probable failure at some point in its life span? Unless it is coated, it
will eventually fail and need repair or replacement due to water deterioration
to the reinforcing rebar. As it is now, due to the scale and widespread nature
of its use, concrete is a major contributor to the “Urban Heat Island Effect”
since not painted concrete acts as a thermal heat sink in all sun exposed
locations and “re-radiates” the thermally accumulated sun’s radiation into the
atmosphere after the sunset. The overheated air in cities and suburbs adds more
air pollution by chemical reactions which occur as the atmospheric temperatures
increase. Massive carbon pollution further occurs from generation of the electricity
at fuel-burning utility plants supplying the energy to run air conditioners
inside millions of such buildings into the night.
