What Green Means to Contractors/Creating a Long-lasting Solution With Metal Roofing

摘要

It was winter in Ohio in 1996. As winters go there, it was cold and wet. A small School district in the southeastern part of the state had nine flat roofs that were leaking badly and had less than 2 inches (51 mm) of wet insulation between the inside and outside of the building's roofs. Like most schools in southern Ohio at that time, they were strappei for money to fix the roofs and pay their heatinc bills. But the children kept coming to school, and the district kept patching leaks and stretching their budget to pay their ever increasing electric and gas bills. They were not thinking about "green" roofs with the roofs' great solar reflectance values. They were in a daily battle to keep these schools dry and warm, while at the same time the costs for these two basic needs were increasing. They were in a tough battle with no positive end in sight.