Pyramidal roofs, both truncated and not, form the focus of our latest roundup, which collects seven homes topped with angular hip roofs. Photo by Adrià Goula Zenith House, Spain, by Nomo Studio ...

White roofs can cool down homes – but scaling up this simple solution is a challenge It helps reflect between 30% and 70% of sunlight, and cools houses. So why can’t everyone do it?

Early results from the Burkina Faso trial, Bunker said, show that cool roofs reduced indoor temperature by between 1.2 C in tin- and mud-roofed homes, and 1.7 C in tin-roofed homes over two years ...

Today, about 60,000 homes in Alabama have fortified roofs, accounting for the vast majority of such homes in the United States, Taylor said. Louisiana, which launched a similar grant program in ...