Sustainable Roof Cladding

Wood shakes and shingles are arguably the most and perhaps only sustainable roofing materials because wood is a sustainable resource.

Sustainable roof cladding.

Choose one of mbci s many sustainable metal roofing and wall products for your design. Here are just three examples. Sustainable cladding and roofing specialise in architectural cladding using non ferrous recyclable metals. After this selection can be made on the basis of embodied energy pollution and length of life.

A life cycle analysis which allows you to analyse the overall environmental impact of a product confirms cupaclad as the ecological option for facade cladding thanks to the use of natural slate instead of prefabricated products. Cupaclad systems enable the construction of efficient sustainable rainscreen cladding. With more and more companies coming up with sustainable cladding options there s no reason not to go green. Mca in efforts to develop industry average data for cold formed metal cladding systems and insulated metal panels imps.

We incorporate traditional european century old installation methods with a modern touch to produce some of australia s highest quality finishes. The report can be downloaded from mca. Shakes and shingles are fairly energy intensive to produce and are only moderately durable much less than slate and clay tile. From the above it can be seen that the most sustainable options for roof cladding are timber shingles closely followed by natural slate as long as these materials are obtained from a local source or at least within the country.