The Coalition has researched and published, with national partners and cities, rigorous and extensive cost benefit analyses of smart surfaces. This includes quantifying for the first time a dozen specific benefits of smart surfaces, many related to health, including reduction of temperature and pollution, reducing flood risk, and protecting city credit rating.
Addressing climate change is essential and possible, and it offers a host of benefits - from better public health to new economic opportunities. The United States has a historic opportunity to lead the way in decarbonization by transforming its current energy system to one with net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide.
Read MoreDelivering Urban Resilience details the costs and benefits of city-wide adoption of smart surfaces in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and El Paso to improve health and livability, reduce urban inequality, and slow global warming while saving billions of dollars.
Read MoreIn this report, we have expanded the technical depth of analysis from these prior reports. We analyze and model in detail the economic costs and benefits, as well as temperature reduction impact, of one city—Baltimore—adopting Smart Surfaces.
Read MoreThe growing citywide risks from extreme heat and weather driven by climate change can be largely offset by citywide adoption of these smart surface technologies while delivering large net financial benefits.
Read MoreIn Fall 2022, the Smart Surfaces Coalition (SSC) with the help of the New Buildings Institute (NBI) submit- ted a proposal for a code change in the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC).
Read MoreA research team at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics has developed a Smart Surfaces Guidebook for city policymakers to use as a decision-making guide.
Read MoreIn partnership Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, this document identifies barriers and opportunities to the widespread adoption of cool roofs.
Read MoreIn this report, the costs and benefits of adopting Smart Surfaces in Stockton, CA, a representative hot-dry climate city, are modeled.
Read MoreThis report analyzes the potential of Smart Surfaces to be financed by the Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator
Read MoreThis report analyzes the effect of climate change related risks on city credit rating and how smart surface implementation can mitigate this risk for cities.
Read MoreSmart Surfaces can save cities billions, reduce temperatures, and make our communities more livable.
Read MoreThis report is a 12 page summary of the full, 300+ page report, Delivering Urban Resilience.
Read MoreReshaping our cities’ surfaces to save lives, improve livability, and slow global warming while saving hundreds of millions of dollars
Read MoreThis report documents the financial costs and benefits of 30 green schools compared to conventional schools. Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.
Read More“Green” buildings—buildings that use fewer resources to build and to sustain—are commonly thought to be too expensive to attract builders and buyers. But are they?
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