Since early July, the Earth has sweltered under record-breaking heat. In the United States, from California and the Desert Southwest to Texas and Florida, a long-lasting heat wave in the triple digits has broken dozens of heat records—and counting.
, including new building codes for residential cooling, and workforce training on the benefits and installation of cool roofs and cool walls.Levinson is also leading the United States Cool Surfaces Deployment Project. That work aims to accelerate the installation of cool roofs and cool walls around the United States.
Levinson and team recently convened with cool-surface experts from the roof and wall industry along with representatives from nongovernmental organizations, utilities, and government agencies. They brainstormed ways to dramatically speed up the deployment of cool roofs and cool walls across the U.S., with a focus on helping disadvantaged communities.
Now, thanks to the Tri-Lab Resilience Project, there could one day be a building energy code that measures a building's resilience or"passive survivability" against extreme heat during power outages. The project is a collaboration between Berkeley Lab, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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