Green Products Lab

Capabilities

The current scope of the P.T. Hutchins Green Building Laboratory is to facilitate the participation of our customer-partners in the United States Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building certification system. While LEED certification applies to projects and not products, product manufacturers, suppliers and contractors can still participate by providing builders with a means of materials and resource stewardship.

Being committed to practical solutions, we at P.T. Hutchins evaluate the compatibility, performance, benefit and cost-in-use of raw materials which have potential, when used in building materials, for LEED credit contribution. Beyond the laboratory, maintaining current knowledge and understanding of the LEED system can prove quite useful to our customer-partners as we help increase LEED awareness and provide guidance on how to get involved.