Custom-Bilt Metals Roofs Deliver Energy Efficiency and Cost Savings to a California School
Los Angeles' Southwest College enjoys benefits of Custom-Bilt Metals' Titan(R) Cool Roof
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Metal roofing from Custom-Bilt Metals covers and complements the best of American architecture, from single-family homes, to modern shopping malls and hotels, to decades-old landmarks and, today, to an institution of higher learning. Custom-Bilt Metals is pleased to announce its low-maintenance and energy-saving Titan(R) Cool Roof metal roofing is helping Southwest College, a Los Angeles area community college in the Westmont neighborhood of the Inglewood district, to significantly reduce its energy costs and contribute to green building energy certification.
Custom-Bilt Metals roofing products now cover Southwest College's recently completed new construction of nearly 90,000 square feet of facilities, including a student services and activities center, maintenance and operations center, parking structure, field house, and general use and concessions building. The project was fabricated by Keystone Roofing Inc. Custom Metal Solutions of Oceanside, California. Spread over two acres of campus properties, the project offers many interesting architectural features, including the metal roofing and custom metal fascia, as well as roofing on numerous shade structures, all of which unify the look of the facility.
"Southwest College has made a crucial, long-term decision in choosing to install a Cool Roof," said Tony Chiovare, president of Custom-Bilt Metals. "Most facility managers see an approximately 20 percent drop in their energy bills after installing a Cool Roof from Custom-Bilt Metals. The U.S. EPA corroborates this figure, which can translate to upwards of tens of thousands of dollars in annual energy savings for schools and institutions."
What is a Cool Roof?
A Cool Roof--or "cool roofing"--is a term used to describe a roofing material's ability to reduce heat build-up inside a building and thereby reduce energy consumption and costs by reducing air conditioning loads. By minimizing heat gain through the roof as a result of the solar reflectance and thermal emitting properties of the roof's surface material, a Cool Roof minimizes energy consumption and lowers a building's carbon footprint.
Because buildings with cool roofs use up to 40 percent less energy for cooling than buildings with darker roofs (according to research from the Heat Island Group), Custom-Bilt Metals has partnered with PPG (formerly BASF Chemical Corporation) to offer their panels with the Kynar 500(R) Paint System with ULTRA-Cool(R) coatings. Covered with these heat-reflective coatings, the Titan Cool Roof Panel colors also meet the ENERGY STAR(R) criteria for cool roofs--another element that results in lower energy bills for the building owner.
How much can be saved?
A cool roofing example highlighted in a study by the industry trade group, Metal Initiative, consider the results of two schools in Georgia. Each had a 90,000-square-foot footprint and was identical in construction, except that one had a conventional metal roof, while the other had a "cool" metal roof.
After the first year of operation, the annual cooling cost for the school with the cool roof was $8,054--9.6 percent lower than the schoo
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