The cool roof rating council provides radiative property data on roof surfaces to improve the energy efficiency of buildings while positively impacting the environment.
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You get value performance and reliability as well as beauty plus potential cooling cost savings.
It found that the average energy savings was about 0 50 per square foot.
Traditional shingles energy savings.
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Timberline cool series shingles can help reduce cooling energy costs they are highly reflective to help reduce temperatures in your attic.
In today s market a cool roof is defined by the reflectivity and emissivity requirements set by either title 24 from the california energy commission or by the energy star program.
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Historically cool roofs have been either white.
Shingles may qualify for points in leed nahb and other green building programs.
All colors meet energy star standards for solar reflectance and thermal emissivity.
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The cool roof rating council was created in 1998 to develop accurate and credible methods for evaluating and labeling the solar reflectance and thermal emittance radiative properties of roofing products and to disseminate the information to all interested parties.
A cool roof is a roofing system that delivers higher solar reflectance the ability to reflect the visible infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths of the sun reducing heat transfer to the building and higher thermal emittance the ability to radiate absorbed or non reflected solar energy than standard designed roofing products.
According to the cool roof rating council cool roofs may save homeowners an average of 7 15 on total cooling costs.
Cool roofs achieve this by reflecting some of the infrared ir light from the sun.
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1 why go elsewhere when gaf offers you a great selection of rich colors and sophisticated designs to make your home stand out from the crowd.
Factory coated cool roofing shingles don t suffer from the same quality issues that field coated traditional shingles do as shown in the miami case.
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A study in california examined the cost savings of cool roofing.