View our downloadable brochure for architects, roof specifiers, consultants, and contractors

View our downloadable general brochure which discusses cool roofs and the CRRC

Why Cool Roofs?

Cool roofs are good for your bottom line, good for your building, and good for the environment. By reducing typical roof surface temperatures by 50ºF or more, cool roofs provide a number of potential immediate and long-term benefits to building owners and managers including:

• Lower your utility bills for air conditioning Down-size your air conditioning systems Expect lower roof maintenance costs and longer roof life Enjoy greater occupant comfort Use this low-cost energy efficiency measure for meeting building codes, and
• Help address your community's heat island effects

How Can the Cool Roof Rating Council Help?

Designers, builders, consultants and owners are showing increasing awareness of the radiative properties of roofs as a key contributor to buildings' thermal performance. Thanks to this growing market awareness "cool" roofing is becoming one of the fastest-growing sectors of the marketplace. In such a market, reliable radiative performance ratings are the bedrock of effective specification. Code officials, energy service providers, architects, roof consultants, building owners, property managers, and community planners rely upon the Cool Roof Rating Council (CRRC) for its Product Rating Program to provide fair and credible roof surface radiative property data.

CRRC recognizes only roofing product radiative property tests performed by properly trained and accredited, independent laboratories. CRRC standardizes and assures the quality of the rating process-we don't establish or enforce performance thresholds. EPA's Energy Star program is complementary in that it promotes only products meeting certain performance levels, and relies on manufacturer performance claims. For product data you can depend on, insist on the CRRC label when you specify your roofing products. See the CRRC product directory at http://www.coolroofs.org/products/search.php for a listing of CRRC labeled products.