by Jonathan McGaha | March 6, 2011 12:00 am
Responding to President Obama’s Penn State address calling for businesses to improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings across the United States, the steel industry announced it has the products and technologies to help building owners achieve these long-term goals.
“The President has laid out an aggressive plan for retrofitting commercial buildings with energy-efficient upgrades,” said Lawrence W. Kavanagh, president of the Steel Market Development Institute, a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute. “We can help businesses meet this challenge with steel technologies and products that are durable, cost-effective, provide long-term energy savings and are available now.”
“Steel offers energy-saving solutions for many building components,” Kavanagh said. “An example is cool metal roofing and wall products that help reduce building energy consumption by lowering cooling loads. Reflective metal roofs can save up to 40 percent in building cooling energy costs and are excellent options for commercial retrofit applications. In many retrofit applications, metal roofing can be efficiently installed with above sheathing ventilation, which allows heat to dissipate through the ridge vent in hot weather while acting as an insulating layer when it is cold. With ASV, steel roofs can contribute to a 30 percent reduction in heat gain through the roof. “
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