What Is the Thermal Efficiency of Colorbond Steel?
A colorbond steel roof can significantly improve your home’s overall thermal efficiency, which is excellent for both your wallet and the environment.
Colorbond steel has revolutionized building design for more than 40 years, revolutionizing our workplaces in the process. Colorbond steel with solar reflectance technology creates new standards, giving architects, builders, and developers more options to fulfill the demands of a rapidly changing environment. With temperatures in India regularly exceeding 50 degrees Celsius, your roof is your structure’s first line of defense. A thermally efficient roofing system could also be used to influence the climatic effects within the building.
In recent years, thermal reflective roofing materials with appropriate SRI values in their paint systems have received a lot of attention, and it’s one of the many important factors to consider when designing a project. Adapting to the evolving needs of a roofing system requires more climate considerations.
Solar Reflectance Technology, which is included in colorbond steel, is an innovative energy-efficient solution offered by Tata BlueScope Steel, a prominent coated steel manufacturer. Due to the painting technique, this high-strength lightweight color coated steel provides thermal protection by optimizing solar reflectance features, which are inbuilt in its composition.
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Thermal Efficiency
Many people are aware that the color of your roof can affect your cooling expense, and the COLORBOND® steel line has no less than five colors that qualify as solar reflecting (light-colored) roofing under the Green Star Communities tool. However, there is another way that COLORBOND® steel can help you save energy in your house.
Thermatech® solar reflectance technology is used in every color in the regular COLORBOND® steel range (excluding Night Sky®). On hot, sunny days, Thermatech® technology is designed to reflect more of the sun’s heat, which can mean less reliance on air conditioning and less heat stress for your roof.
You may cut your cooling costs by using thermally efficient roofing materials like COLORBOND® steel. In the summer, a COLORBOND® steel roof with a lightweight insulated roof allows less heat to be transferred into your home at night. Steel has a low thermal mass, thus it cools quickly once the sun has gone down.
In the winter, the same steel roof, which has been adequately insulated, assists in keeping the heat inside. The color scheme you choose can have an impact on your home’s energy efficiency. During the summer, lighter colors, in particular, radiate less heat.
Thermatech® technology has been added to COLORBOND® steel, reinforcing its reputation as the most energy-efficient roofing material.
Conserves Energy
By reflecting more of the sun’s heat, Thermatech® technology helps your roof and structure stay cooler. Air-conditioning has an easier time keeping your building cool when heat is deflected away from it. Using less energy to cool your building can help inhabitants save money on energy and reduce emissions from power generating. When compared to conventional Pre-painted steel (regular PPGL) roofing materials of the same color but lower solar reflectivity in mild to hot regions, COLORBOND® steel with THERMATECH® Technology can cut annual energy usage by up to 20%.
Fire Protection
COLORBOND® steel may help safeguard your property if you live in or intend to construct in a bushfire-prone region, or if you simply wish to enhance the bushfire protection provided to your house. due to its incombustibility Using COLORBOND® steel simply provides another layer of security to safeguard your family.
Layers of Defense
Genuine COLORBOND® steel is much more than simply ‘paint on steel.’ It is manufactured in Australia to Australian Standards (AS1397 and AS/NZS 2728) and has been tested in some of the toughest Australian environments over the past 50 years.
- The steel foundation is produced in accordance with applicable Australian Standards, guaranteeing that the necessary grade and strength are strictly adhered to.
- BlueScope’s industry-leading metallic coating with Activate® technology* is then applied to the base to offer improved corrosion resistance.
- To improve the adherence of subsequent coatings, a thin pretreatment layer is placed.
- On the surface, a corrosion-inhibiting primer is baked.
- A topcoat of specially designed exterior grade paint is baked on to offer resistance to chipping, flaking, and blistering and to guarantee the finish maintains its appearance for a longer period of time.
Longer-Lasting Support Structures
COLORBOND® with Thermatech® technology steel absorbs less heat from the sun, it protects your roof and its supporting structure from severe heat. As a result, the stresses that your roof and its materials are subjected to be lessened, and your roof will endure longer.
We are Colorbond® steel installers who exclusively use Australian-made roofing products. Contact us through our contact page for additional information or to speak with a member of our staff about your reroofing ideas.
