Aug. 25—MABLETON — A Mableton school began re-paving its basketball court Thursday with a special coating aimed at lowering surface temperatures.
Faculty and students of the SAE School on Mableton Parkway watched closely as the basketball court blacktop transformed from a plain concrete slab to the beginning stages of a play surface. Workers spent Thursday covering the court in blue and tan, the school's colors. The court design was chosen by the students.
"I'm happy," said Wes Tilson, a seventh grader at the SAE School. "This used to be a normal black and white area, and now it's going to be colorful and more interactive."
While it may appear as simply a fresh coat of paint, the new surface is in fact a solar reflective coating. The coating will help lower the surface temperature by up to 12 degrees using infrared reflection, according to Eliot Wall, general manager of GAF Streetbond, the company that makes the paint.
The SAE School wanted to lower the temperature of their playing surfaces, combat the urban heat island effect and allow for students to play longer without heat-related fatigue, according to Wall. The urban heat island effect occurs in places, such as major cities and lower income areas, that experience higher temperatures in summer due to intense heat emanating from blacktops and a lack of trees.
GAF Streetbond is conducting a two-year pilot project in places affected by the phenomenon, repaving public places with the reflective coating. The firm donated materials and labor to the school for the repaving.
"This is just part of the solution," Wall said. "When you have the pavement coatings that also lead up to the roofs eventually getting coated, then you have a whole community who is getting cooled down by this."
Students at the school, which has 370 students, were themselves taught about the urban island heat effect and calculating temperatures, according to Scott Starwood, the school's CEO and co-founder.
"It's something we wanted to do to get them involved," Starwood said.
The repaving should wrap up next week, according to Wall.
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