UF/IFAS Marion County Extension “High Performance Homes Tour”

The University of Florida/IFAS Marion County Extension Service is sponsoring the “2011 High Performance Homes Tour”, an educational event designed to give local home builders green ideas for their next build or retrofit.  Assistance with the tour is being provided from the Marion County Building Industry Association (MCBIA), Solar Trek, Inc, and Dr. Anna Marie, Health Specialist for The Weather Channel.

The program will be held on April 19^th, 2011, from 7:30AM – 1PM, and will highlight area homes that are energy and water efficient.  Participants will meet at the UF/IFAS Marion County Extension office, where they will board the tour bus.

The first stop on the tour is located in Pine Run Estates, Ocala, FL, and has been retrofitted with a solar hot water heater, a 2.5kw solar system, and many other energy-efficiency upgrades.  The home is owned by Solar Trek, Inc., a licensed solar contractor based out of Ocala.

The second home on the tour is located in Umatilla, FL, and is owned by Dr. Anna Marie of the Weather Channel.  Dr. Anna Marie has retrofitted the home with some of the most current renewable energy and health conscious upgrades, including a 7.5kW solar photovoltaic system, a geothermal heating and cooling system, LED lighting, spray foam attic insulation, an Energy Star certified metal roof by OneSource Coil Coaters, and partner ASI Building Products, and some of the latest in sustainable home furnishings.  Through her efforts, Dr. Anna Marie has reduced her monthly electric bill from $350.00 to $50.00.

During the tour, Dr. Jennifer Languell, owner of Trifecta Construction Solutions, Inc. and Vice President of Florida Green Building Coalition (FGBC), will present information on various Green Building topics.  Dr. Languell is considered a leader in educating the homebuilding industry and homebuyers about the benefits of Green Building.  Two CILB CEU credits will be available for builders that attend these presentations.

Participants in the “2011 High Performance Homes Tour” can register online at http://highperformancehomes.eventbrite.com, or by phone at 352-671-8400.  Pre-registration deadline is March 23^rd, 2011.

For more information contact John Linhoss, UF/IFAS Marion County Extension Agent, at 352-671-8400 or jlinhoss@ufl.edu.

OneSource is a proud sponsor of  the “Greenovation of Terra Verde”, a 1970′s ranch-style home located on the edge of the Ocala National Forest in Central Florida.  Dr. Anna Marie, health specialist for the Weather Channel and host of the syndicated better living show, Your Life with Dr. Anna Marie, is leading this greenovation project to transform this home into an eco friendly, energy efficient and ultimately healthy home.

Using our highly reflective Coolsource aluminum metal roof helped turn this old, inefficient home into a Florida Green Coalition PLATINUM Certified home. Additionally, this project is recognized by EnergyStar for energy efficiency. We hope that our role in this “greenovation” will  inspire and motivate people to make changes in their own homes.

For Our Future Generations

COOLSOURCE roofing contributes to our environment by using recycled products as well as reducing the amount of energy needed to cool your home.  Please recycle.  Eliminate future landfill debris with a metal roof.

Metal roofing and siding panels are made with the highest recycled content from the most recyclable materials on earth, making them a great choice not only for your use, but also for future generations’ use. Your old car, soup can or washing machine may become part of your new roof! Some states are mandating energy-saving requirements for buildings or giving tax breaks for energy-efficient and energy-saving construction products.

Steel is the world’s, as well as North America’s, most recycled material. In the United States alone, nearly 70 million tons of steel were recycled in 2002. Every ton of steel that is recycled saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal, and 120 pounds of limestone. New steel made with recycled material uses as little as 26% of the amount of energy that would be required to make steel from raw materials extracted from nature. (1)

The Environment

Aluminum is also recycled extensively from both post consumer and post-industrial sources and provides the most valuable component for most municipal recycling efforts.  A survey taken in late 2003 indicated the recycled content of domestically produced, flat rolled products for the building and construction matrix was approximately 80-85%.  In addition, at the end of their long, useful life, aluminum roofing and siding panels can be repeatedly recycled back into similar products with no loss of quality.

Producing aluminum from recycled material requires only 5% of the energy required to product aluminum bauxite ore, and every ton of recycled aluminum saves four tones of bauxite.  Additionally, using recycled aluminum instead of raw materials reduces air pollution such as CO2, Sox and Nox by 95% and water pollution by 97%. (2)

REFERENCES (1) Steel Recycling Institute (www.recycle-steel.org) (2) The Aluminum Association (www.aluminum.org)

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Why is our brand name COOLSOURCE important to you?  Please let us explain -

Buildings consume one-third of all energy and two-thirds of all electricity generated. Cool roofs can help reduce energy consumption by lowering cooling loads. Lightly colored, more reflective roofs save up to 40% in cooling energy, as reported by the Heat Island Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Highly emissive roofs can lower urban air temperatures, there by benefiting the environment by reducing smog formation.

Reflectivity and Emissivity

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

A building’s cooling and heating costs can be effectively reduced by insulation under the roof surface. Adding increasing amounts of insulation is not always the best way to save energy. As part of total system design, a cool metal roof can be an economical method for better energy efficiency.

Cool metal roofing is available with oven-baked paint finishes. This family of roofing can achieve solar reflectance of over 70 percent and emissivity ratings as high as 90 percent.  Reflected solar energy allows the roof surface to remain cooler, which means less heat is transferred into the building.  The infrared emittance of a roof is a measure of absorbed solar radiation that is reemitted from the roof surface to the sky. Emittance of metal roofing varies with the surface finish. Emittance of painted metal roofing can be as high as 90 percent, while plain finishes emissivity rating is  8—15 percent.

IMPORTANT—FOR SOUTHERN USA

Where annual cooling loads dominate, a highly reflective and highly emissive painted metal roof is optimal for reducing energy consumption.

Where annual heating loads dominate, an unpainted metal roof is more desirable because of its low infrared emittance.

Refer to coolmetalroofing.com for more info.

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