Roof Color Energy Efficiency

The color of the shingles you choose for your build can have a significant impact on the building s energy efficiency.

Roof color energy efficiency.

But the reality isn t quite as straightforward. 1 cool your roof cool roofs are lighter in color than traditional black asphalt or dark wood shingles and save energy by reflecting light and heat away rather than absorbing them. Built up roofs consist of a base sheet fabric reinforcement layers and usually a dark protective. White roofing isn t always green.

Single ply membranes are pre fabricated sheets rolled onto the roof and attached with mechanical fasteners adhered with chemical adhesives or held in place with ballast gravel stones or pavers. How they can be made cool. Reformulate or coat black membranes to make them reflective. While lighter colors are inherently more heat reflective roofing materials have a much larger impact on roofing energy efficiency than their colors do.

This is known as the albedo effect and many studies have documented significant energy savings from simply lightening the color of a roof.