Useful Links:
ASES, The American Solar Energy
Society
ASHRAE, (American Society of
Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.)
ASTM International,
(formerly the "American Society for Testing and Materials")
Applicable standards:
Emissometer:
ASTM
C1371-04a (Standard Test Method for Determination of
Emittance of Materials Near Room Temperature Using
Portable Emissometers)
Solar
Spectrum Reflectometer:
ASTM
C1549-04 (Standard Test Method for Determination
of Solar Reflectance Near Ambient Temperature Using a
Portable Solar Reflectometer)
ASTM
E1980-01 (Standard Practice for Calculating Solar
Reflectance Index of Horizontal and Low-Sloped Opaque
Surfaces)
Devices and Services Products on the web:
The Heat Island Group of the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory's Environmental Energy Technology Group, Cool
Roof instrumentation page.
Steel Roofing Oak Ridge
National Laboratory report.
Energy Star "Program
Requirements for Roof Products".
"American Concrete Pavement Association",
Creating a concrete mixture to obtain LEED site credit.
Information on how
concrete can help achieve LEED credits.
Cool Roof Rating Council, "Standard
Practice for Measuring Solar Reflectance of a Flat,
Opaque, and Heterogeneous Surface Using a Portable Solar
Reflectometer".
Heat Island Group,
"Effects of Composition and Exposure On the Solar
Reflectance Of Portland Cement Concrete".
Devices and
Services 
