Soy-based Roofs?
Gardens and solar energy panels have found a home on many of Chicago’s rooftops. Is soy joining the in-crowd?
A Chicago-based manufacturer is finding that a soy-based coating might be the new emerging green technology as far as rooftops are concerned.
Shedd Aquarium was the first cultural institution — and only the third building of any kind — in Chicago with a soy-based roof, which is made from the equivalent of 36 acres of soybeans.
The aquariam’s Web site says the reflective white coating stays cool in the summer, lowering the aquarium’s air-conditioning bills while countering the urban heat island effect created by black asphalt roofs.
October 21 2007 06:34 pm | Green Technology
Junior TLE on 23 Oct 2007 at 12:03 am #
If I had a soy bean roof, I may be in trouble because I would try to eat it. I love me some soy beans