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Stay Comfortable, Stay Cool

The Owens Corning® Cool Roof Collection helps keep your roof cooler for a more comfortable home. Owens Corning® COOL Roof Collection Shingles are specially designed to reflect the sun’s energy and absorb less heat than standard shingles, without limiting your color options. Every shingle in the COOL Roof Collection features a precise mix of solar-reflecting granules to help comply with the Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) requirements of Title 24, Part 6, even with deeper, vibrant colors. Explore our expanded COOL Roof Collection and reflect your unique style.

Stay Comfortable, Stay Cool

COOL Roof Collection shingles…

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Improve Indoor Comfort

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Can help reduce energy costs

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May Extend Roof Service Life

Discovering COOL Shingles

Meeting California Code Requirements

There are two ways asphalt shingles can meet cool roof code requirements in California

Exceed a minimum solar reflectance.

This is ability of the shingle to reflect the sun’s energy from its surface back into the atmosphere. Solar reflectance is represented as a number like “0.25”.

Exceed a minimum solar reflectance index (SRI).

This is a mathematical calculation based on the shingle’s aged solar reflectance and thermal emittance. It measures how hot the shingle surface is likely to become when exposed to solar radiation. Shingles with a higher SRI rating are cooler in the sunshine. SRI is represented as a number like “16”.

Why Stay COOL?

  1. Compliant with California’s Title 24, Part 6 Cool Roof Requirements
  2. Potentially save home energy consumption and CO2 emission
    COOL Roofs can contribute to lower home energy costs by keeping your roof cooler throughout the year. Combined with the fact that sunlight is directly reflected back at the sun, COOL Roofs can positively impact the environment with lower CO2 emissions.
  3. Longer lasting roofs
    Extend the life of the roof – thanks to solar-reflecting granules that reduce shingle temperature and subsequently, slow asphalt aging.
  4. Wide arrange of colors
    Save energy and look great at the same time. The COOL Roof Collection has a variety of deep colors that are unexpected of solar reflective shingles which tend to be lighter-in-color.
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Cool Shingle Options

Cool Shingle Options

Owens Corning® COOL Shingles have a range of COOL Shingles in a variety of dark and light colors with a SRI value of at least 16.

Options that Exceed 20+ SRI

Owens Corning offers a wide array of shingle choices that meet or exceed an aged SRI of 20 – the current aged Solar Reflectance Index minimum required for the Green Building Standards Code of Los Angeles County and Los Angeles City Cool Roofs Ordinance.

FIND AN INDEPENDENT ROOFING PREFERRED CONTRACTOR

Ready to take the next step? Find an independent roofing Platinum or Preferred Contractor in the Owens Corning Roofing Contractor Network near you.