Raising the Roof on Green Buildings

National Coatings Corporation (NCC) is prepared to green the rooftops of an important client: the city of Los Angeles. Their sustainable roofing products, which satisfy criteria in three categories of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), can help developers earn the general LEED certification required of new 50-unit/50,000 sq.-ft-buildings, as described in Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Green Building law. Enacted on April 22nd, the new law aims to reduce LA’s carbon emissions by more than 80,000 tons by 2012. Considering studies that show LA’s peak summer temperatures to have risen eight degrees since 1930 due to the replacement of natural vegetation with concrete, the transition to cooler roof systems, like NCC’s famed AcryShield roof coatings, should lower building temperatures – and thus air-conditioning demands – quite a bit.

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