There are many reasons to consider a metal roof for your home: Long lasting durability, long-term cost savings, and the high quality value and appearance. But there is another reason to invest in a metal roof that many do not consider. Metal roofs help conserve our environment!
According to the National Association of Homebuilders Research Center, 20 BILLION pounds of asphalt shingles are dumped into our landfills every year at a cost of $400 Million per year! The recycled content of the steel in a metal roof is right around 50%. Plus, in some instances, your metal roof can be installed over your existing roof putting less demand on our natural resources by filling less landfill space.
Although a metal roof will likely outlast the home it protects, at the end of its life, the entire roof can be recycled making it a valuable renewable resource.
The cost of heating and cooling our homes continue to rise. Metal roofs are environmentally responsible because of their excellent energy efficiency. Metal roofs deflect the sun's UV radiation keeping your home cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
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Bannister High Performance House
Award-winning architect William Peck, (William Peck & Associates) and builder Chris Miles (GreenCraft Builders LLC) have teamed up to build this unique, affordable, and environmentally friendly home.
The Bannister High-Performance House is a demonstration project for the US Department of Energy's "Building America" program to encourage homeowners and builders to live and build in a more fiscally and environmentally sensible manner. The Building Science Consortium has included this home as one of their national projects for 2007. Additional certifications will include:
USGBC LEED-H
Dallas HBA Green Built North Texas
A circa 1900 folk vernacular style, the Bannister High-Performance House started construction in March 2007, on Ball Street in Grapevine, Texas, just 4 blocks west of historical downtown Main Street.
Heather's Home
Heather's Home, located in Weatherford, Texas, is an AFFORDABLE, three bedroom, +/- 2,000 square foot home that will be made from environmentally friendly "green" products and will be a near zero energy usage home. Heather's home has been accepted into the Department of Energy's Building America Program.
Heather’s Home is the FIRST home in the nation to be certified under the new, more stringent, American Lung Association's Healthy Home guidelines.
Sustainable Roofing Gaining Favor
The Dallas Morning News published an article entitled "Sustainable Roofing Gaining Favor" in their Sunday, January 13, 2008 Edition of their newpaper. The reporter that wrote this article interviewed Chris Miles of Greencraft Builders, the builder of the Bannister House. The pictures of the sustainable roofing profiled were supplied by Distinctive Roofing.
