Time to lower emissions
Responsible for nearly 40% of the world’s CO₂ emissions, the construction industry needs to drastically reduce its production emissions and shift towards more sustainable operations.
Solutions for green buildings
Long lasting protection and beautification
Climate and environmental changes require a new generation of solutions engineered for the construction and maintenance of greener buildings.
With close to 100 years of experience in providing long-lasting steel protection, fire protection and beautification of buildings, Jotun is the market-leader in coatings and solutions that offers proven performance without compromising on design. Our innovative technologies ensures that your building remains beautiful for generations – whilst facilitating the shift towards smarter, greener buildings.
An industry in need of change
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that buildings and infrastructure, including their construction processes, account for approximately 38% of the global COâ‚‚ emissions annually. To counter this industry-wide challenge, regulatory and financial incentives are encouraging project owners, developers, and other stakeholders to meet specific criteria based on standards such as LEED and BREEAM, set by international organisations.
Towards a greener industry
Stricter environmental regulations
Growing evidence of environmental impacts, combined with increasingly strict environmental regulations and reporting requirements, are putting pressure on developers and owners to rethink their approach to sustainable buildings.
Driven by market demand
The focus on environmental impact and sustainability has increased considerably both through regulations, but also through a clear market demand. In many cases, the requirements and expectations from the consumer are often stricter than the market regulations.
Protecting property
Our commitment to more sustainable operations is centred around our core business purpose of providing long-lasting protection. Our innovative, high-performing products and solutions optimise, protect and safeguard assets – leading to more efficient operations, reduced costs, and lowered carbon emissions. Jotun’s success in developing products and solutions to help customers improve and document their environmental performance will play an increasingly important role in the years ahead.
How we support your sustainability ambitions
Green Building Solutions
In 2015, Jotun introduced Green Building Solutions (GBS). This includes a broad range of paints and coatings that have been independently verified and documented to earn valuable points towards green building certifications. By making projects easier to specify and encouraging greener building processes, Jotun helps customers all over the world reduce emissions, lower the use of hazardous materials, and comply with international green building standards.
Comply with international standards
Jotun’s range of products comply with LEED and BREEAM, two of the most well-known, international green building standards. By complying with LEED and BREEAM, you often also contribute to local building standards, which tend to have less strict requirements. The combination of our high-performing products working together makes it easier to attain LEED or BREEAM certification – aided by externally verified reports and documents to ensure customers acquire the greatest points value possible from their paints and coatings.
Environmental product declarations
With a wide range of products, Jotun can offer single source solutions for buildings, thereby supporting architects and contractors in achieving more sustainable buildings with important LEED/BREEAM points. To achieve this, Jotun has more than 300 Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). Product-specific Type III EPDs ensures transparency of the environmental impacts of selected products. They are independently verified and details the life-cycle environmental impact of the specific products used.
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