LIGHTER CONCRETE COULD MEAN COOLER CITIES

Utah's Department of Transportation (UDOT) is testing a way to ease the heat in cities with a basic principle: white concrete should be cooler than blacktop. UDOT has started with a small patch of white concrete at an intersection in Ogden, Utah. If it works, the department may start using light-colored concrete in other Utah cities in the hopes of reflecting the sunlight normally absorbed by black asphalt.

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• Publication Date: 1999-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 25
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering News
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Civil Engineering News, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 1051-9629

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asphalt pavements; Concrete; Environmental protection; Heat; Pavements; State departments of transportation; Whites
• Geographic Terms: Ogden (Utah); Utah
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00770352
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 25 1999 12:00AM