December 15,—Custom-Bilt Metals announced that its low-maintenance and energy-saving Titan Cool Roof metal roofing is helping Southwest College, a Los Angeles area community college in the Westmont neighborhood of the Inglewood district, to significantly reduce its energy costs and contribute to green building energy certification.
Custom-Bilt Metals roofing products now cover Southwest College’s recently completed new construction of nearly 90,000 square feet of facilities, including a student services and activities center, maintenance and operations center, parking structure, field house, and general use and concessions building.
The project was fabricated by Keystone Roofing Inc. Custom Metal Solutions of Oceanside, California. Spread over two acres of campus properties, the project offers many interesting architectural features, including the metal roofing and custom metal fascia, as well as roofing on numerous shade structures, all of which unify the look of the facility.
Because buildings with cool roofs use up to 40 percent less energy for cooling than buildings with darker roofs (according to research from the Heat Island Group), Custom-Bilt Metals has partnered with PPG (formerly BASF Chemical Corporation) to offer panels with the Kynar 500 Paint System with ULTRA-Cool coatings. Covered with these heat-reflective coatings, the Titan Cool Roof Panel colors also meet the ENERGY STAR criteria for cool roofsanother element that results in lower energy bills for the building owner.
For more information, see the Custom-Bilt Metals Web site.
