Cool metal roofing’s energy saving benefits has provided the opportunity for homeowners and contractors to earn tax incentives and rebates. Below are a few of the incentives and rebates available to building owners, home owners and contractors.

Energy Policy Act

• Home owners can earn up to $1,500, or 30% of the material purchase cost (whichever is greater) in tax credits for home improvements.
• Contractors can earn tax credits up to $2,000 during the same time frame.
• For commercial buildings, building owners can qualify for tax deductions up to $1.80 per square foot for developing an energy efficient building.

Reference links:

• IRS guidelines for existing homes | www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-06-26.pdf
• IRS guidelines for new homes | www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-06-27.pdf
• IRS guidelines for commercial buildings | www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-06-52.pdf
• www.energytaxincentives.org

Energy Star®

All ENERGY STAR® labeled prepainted metal roofs can qualify for the $1, 500 tax credit.

• The roof must be expected to last 5 years or have a 2 year warranty
• Installation costs are not included
• Manufacturer’s Certification Statement is required
• For tax purposes, receipts should be saved along with the Manufacturer’s Certification Statement
• The IRS encourages manufacturers to provide these Certifications on their website to facilitate identification of qualified products
• Homeowner does not have to submit a copy with tax returns

If you are interested in learning about new residential construction incentives and rebates, please view the information about RESNET and the website listed below.

RESNET

Residential Energy Services Network – www.natresnet.org

• Founded in 1995 by National Association of State Energy Officials and Energy Rated Homes of America
• Developed a home energy rating system using certified raters    – Home Energy Rating Service (HERS)
• Maintain national standards for home energy ratings
• Work with the mortgage industry – Residential energy efficiency financing products
• Educate the public and housing industry

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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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