Jotun is launching Green Building Solutions – which the company said is the easiest way to design, specify, beautify and protect buildings worldwide with green building products.
 
Jotun offers an online green building guide to ease the specification process. This includes an overview of all the green products, guide specifications along with all the needed documentation (including Environmental Product Declarations where available). 
 
For a building to reach “certified” level according to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) v4 certification, paints and coatings in Jotun’s GBS product range can be used to contribute up to 27 percent of the required points. At Platinum level, using paints and coatings from Jotun can contribute up to 14 percent of the 80 points required.
 
Green Building Solutions provides a single global source for customers looking for a way to increase points for green building standards, including LEED and BREEAM.
 
Green Building Solutions provides paints and coatings across a full range of building needs – with specification support for the planning stage and global availability for construction stage – including architectural powder coatings; anti-carbonation coatings for concrete; decorative paints; floor coatings; intumescent coatings for cellulosic fire protection and protective coatings.
 
“Paints and coatings represent such a small percentage of a building’s cost – yet the impact they can have on achieving rating points is outstanding,” said Henriette Eggen, Jotun’s global marketing manager infrastructure.“We have worked hard to ensure we are able to provide the most efficient type of EPDs for our customers worldwide: third-party verified Product-specific Type III EPDs. This ensures our customers get the most points value from their paints and coatings possible, all from one supplier.”