Metal Roof Leed

This helps to eliminate the waste stream to landfills where most conventional roofing products end up.

Metal roof leed.

Leed roofing and wall panels leed is an acronym for leadership in energy and environmental design. Metal is the world s most recycled material. It is a whole building certification rating system instituted by the us green building council. Actual requirements may not be achieved once all materials are considered.

Their high recycled content total recyclability and energy efficiency allow metal roofs to play a pivotal and important role in meeting energy star and leed leadership in energy and environmental design program requirements. Each year about 20 billion pounds of old composition roofing shingles are dumped into us landfills. Metal roofing leads to leed energy savings aluminum roofing can boost a building s leed rating significantly raising the energy efficiency of a home and passing significant savings on to the client. In the leed program a building project is awarded points in categories for compliance with established sustainability standards.

Metal roofing is 100 recyclable at the end of its roofing life. While the most widely known leed credit for roofing is for the heat island effect metal s high recycled content its total recyclability and its smooth impervious surface allow metal to meet requirements for other points in the leed program as well. Leed requirements are based on all materials constructed under the project contract of which the metal building is only a portion. Leed and sustainability drexel metals uses recycled metal our roofing components which are themselves recyclable at the end of their life.