While painting a roof white may help reflect the sun’s heat away from your roof, it makes a lot more sense to put down an insulating layer as well so that your roof does it’s job in both the summer and the winter. This is particularly true in more northern states, where white roofs are [...]
The single largest energy expense area for education facilities is space heating and ventilation - a whopping 57% of total energy end-use according to the March 2009 Department of Energy Building Energy Data Book. If you add cooling, this rises to 67%. In most buildings, approximately 12% of the thermal energy loss occurs directly through the roof, [...]
Did you know that one-sixth of the electricity produced annually in the United States goes to air conditioning buildings? It’s amazing how inefficient roofing can cause your heating and cooling costs to soar. A building’s roof can heat up to 150 degrees on an average day in the summer allowing heat absorption inside the building [...]
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