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Contractors, building owners & operators, engineering and architectural firms, as well as manufacturers, are looking for green solutions. We started decades ago at CTLGroup. It is an integral part of our practice.

CTLGroup provides a comprehensive variety of engineering, consulting, research and testing services that support sustainability of the built environment:

• Efficient use of energy, materials and resources
• LEED compliance verification and documentation including Solar Reflectance Index testing (SRI)
• Energy usage analysis/simulation for problem identification and resolution
• Environmental product declaration and third party verification
• Low carbon cementitious materials and concrete mixture design

 Additional services include:

• Energy or green audit - assess current performance and identify ways to go green
• Building component analysis, including optimal insulation levels
• Building envelope engineering, including insulation, thermal mass, air barriers,  vapor retarders, and moisture mitigation
• Energy code and green building standard compliance
• Remaining service-life analysis, performance assessment and analysis of existing buildings and structures
• Life-cycle inventory (LCI) or life-cycle assessment (LCA) to help assess your product, process or building; or provide data for the U.S. LCI database
• Life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) or service-life assessment
• Solar reflectance, SRI and thermal property testing
• Optimal material proportioning using recycled content materials

CTLGroup has the depth of experience matched by few and has been making the world a greener place—project by project—for over 30 years in several ways:

• Determining  the environmental impacts of materials through the application of life-cycle assessment (LCA) since 1993
• Contributing to the development of ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1 Standard for the Design of High Performance Green Buildings (since 2006) and ASHRAE 90.1 Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings (since 1990)
• Testifying at the International Green Construction Code Hearings (IGCC) in August 2010 and the International Energy Conservation Code Hearings (IECC) since 2002

For more details, view the Green Solutions At-a-Glance sheet.