EU Cool Roof Council

The EU-CRC deals with the following aspects of the cool roofs technology, by formulating the relevant groups:

• Technical aspect: The EU-CRC groups the EU Universities and institutions with the relevant market that are dealing with the development of cool highly reflective coatings in order to uptake the transfer of knowledge. This will be formulated systematically by the development of adatabase for cool roofs materials and coatingsthat will be continuously updated by the scientific experts of the Consortium. Furthermore links with other Universities in EU and worldwide will be established. Pilot actions to "create" EU cool roofs case studies will be performed.
• Policy and legislative aspect:The EU-CRC monitors and reviews the regulatory framework worldwide, the mandatory, prescriptive requirements and or credits and to analyse the steps and lessons learnt from the introduction of cool roofs standards.A thorough landscape assessment will be developed assisting the identification of the potential policy issues and opportunities for introducing the cool roof technology in the EU.
• Market aspect:The EU-CRC monitors the EU market and will perform a market research for the acceptability of such innovative technologies by manufacturers, construction companies, building contractors, free-lancers, etc.
• End users aspect:The main goal of the EU-CRC is to raise awareness of the end users through the provision of a promotion plan and through the dissemination activities.