Others prefer concrete flooring for purely aesthetic reasons.
Concrete floor reflectance.
Reflectance values for 25 week old concrete produced with white and gray cement were 0 68 to 0 77 and 0 41 to 0 52 respectively.
An as struck smooth grey portland cement surface may have a reflectance of 40 cibse although this will reduce if the surface is mottled or discoloured.
They reflect heat from the sun and do not warm the air very much.
It can be important to maximise the light reflectance from an exposed surface for example to reduce the artificial lighting requirement.
That is the finding from a portland cement association pca study which measured the solar reflectance index sri of 45 concrete mixes.
Once the concrete slab was ground this dark top layer is removed exposing concrete that is lighter in color because it has not been burned by trowel machines.
Using concrete mixtures with sufficient mixing water however the investigators reported.
Bright shiny and polished concrete floors look much better than a dull and dreary surface.
The scale ranges from 0 to 100 with 0 being.
Light reflectance value lrv is a measurement used to inform how much light a color reflects and how much it absorbs.
Measuring the reflectance of floors for big box retail stores it s not only the levelness and flatness of a floor that counts it s also the ability of a floor to reflect light that matters.
Concrete does a very good job of reflecting solar energy.
Reflectance values for aged weathered or abraded concrete surfaces were affected by the reflectance of.