Cool Roof Colors: The Future of the Metal Roofing Industry
What's in store for metal roofing in the years to come? Of course, no one can predict the future with 100 percent certainty, but anyone who's been paying attention will almost certainly agree that cool roof technology will be a major factor in the metal roofing industry for the foreseeable future.
Less than 18 months ago, Roofing Contractor published a special "Cool Roofing" supplement that provided an excellent picture of the state of this technology as it applied to all types of roofing systems, including metal. The benefits of highly reflective cool roof coatings were already well established at that time, but since then there have been important advances, with a number of significant developments in 2005 alone. This year we saw research labs, utilities, government agencies and other interested groups focusing significant attention on cool metal roofing as they quantify and refine the energy-saving potential of these systems. Their findings could have a major impact on each of us-and on the metal roofing industry at large.