- Date：2026-10-31 14:44
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On October 28, during the CADE International Architectural Design Expo, the "2026 Green Star Salon," jointly hosted by CTC, UK Zero Carbon Factory Architecture Firm, the Building Research Establishment (BRE), the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB), and the Zhongguancun Human Settlements Engineering and Materials Research Institute, successfully concluded in Beijing. With the theme of "Green and Low-Carbon Good Materials, Building a Foundation for Building Carbon Neutrality, Activating Carbon Value Across the Industrial Chain," the salon brought together more than 100 representatives from research institutions, international authoritative organizations, leading building materials enterprises, and architectural designers to confront industry pain points and explore new pathways for high-quality development across the entire building industry chain.
In his speech, Song Kaisen, General Manager of CTC, focused on CTC's strategic positioning and service philosophy. He stated that as a "national team" in the inspection, testing, and certification field, CTC has for many years been committed to using scientific and authoritative green and low-carbon evaluation and certification to truly bridge the gap between "green building materials" and "green buildings." Facing the current industry's transformation needs and going-global challenges, CTC is committed to doing three things well: first, to become a "converter" for aligning with international rules and a "verifier" of compliant data, safeguarding the high-quality going-global of China's building materials industrial chain; second, to deeply participate in the construction of the "Good Materials" system, using standards and evaluation to promote the implementation of "Good Houses"; third, to explore a new ecological service model of "standards + certification + promotion," reducing search and matching costs across the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
Facing increasingly severe international green trade barriers, the salon took "going-global compliance" and "international procurement" as core topics. At the meeting, Guo Yan, Chief Architect of UK Zero Carbon Factory Architecture Firm, shared the opportunities and standard requirements for overseas zero-carbon projects when procuring Chinese low-carbon building materials; Johannes Kreissig, CEO of DGNB, introduced in detail the "Sino-European Sustainable Building Product Digital Passport" (SEPP) developed for the EU market in collaboration with CTC and IBU; Li Ang, Head of BRE North China, provided an in-depth analysis of the current status of corporate sustainable development and the policy opportunities for going global. Through carrying out EPD mutual recognition cooperation with BRE and advancing the SEPP system construction with DGNB, CTC is using authoritative third-party data verification to help Chinese enterprises transform domestic low-carbon data into internationally accepted "customs clearance credentials," providing solid support for building materials enterprises to sail overseas.
As the building industry moves toward "Good Houses," how to scientifically select good materials has become key. Liu Yi, General Manager of the Certification and Evaluation Center of CTC, in his thematic sharing, focused on CTC's practices in the evaluation and certification of green and low-carbon good materials. Currently, CTC has undertaken the key task of China Building Materials Federation's "Good Materials Standards" and carried out the "Good House Selected Product Evaluation" work. At the salon, CTC awarded plaques for the "Good House Selected Product Certification Mark" to 14 outstanding enterprises. Through rigorous standards and evaluation systems, CTC is guiding the industry to return to technology, data, and quality itself, allowing truly high-quality low-carbon materials to stand out, giving designers the confidence to use them and giving the public peace of mind.
As a highlight of this CADE Expo, the "Green Star" exhibition zone set up by CTC was highly popular. The zone, together with Zero Carbon Factory, built a low-carbon real-scene house, physically displaying participating materials that passed the green evaluation according to actual applications and joint details, intuitively presenting cutting-edge technical solutions and attracting a large number of professional architects and buyers to stop and connect.
At the event, the organizing committee awarded "Green Star" awards to multiple enterprises and granted TOP honors to four enterprises. The four TOP enterprises delivered special technical presentations. This innovative model of "certification + promotion" effectively opened up the connection between design and materials, achieving precise matching and two-way empowerment between supply and demand.
The roundtable dialogue session was chaired by Jiang Quan, former Chief Engineer of CTC. The dialogue guests conducted in-depth discussions on several dimensions, including bottlenecks in application on the building side and industrial chain collaboration, international compliance trends and data-driven material selection, industrial transformation and low-carbon solutions, and certification empowerment and market value conversion. Combining domestic and international practical experience, the guests jointly explored feasible paths to open up the connection between design and materials and improve the scientific material selection system, further building industry consensus.
This "Green Star" Salon was not only a collision of cutting-edge industry viewpoints but also a vivid practice of CTC leveraging its credibility and technical advantages to empower the coordinated development of the industrial chain. In the future, CTC will continue to uphold the philosophy of "Delivering Trust, Serving Development," continuously promote the implementation of international mutual recognition and green and low-carbon practices in building materials selection, activate the carbon value of the building industrial chain, and build a solid material foundation for the green and low-carbon transformation of China's building industry.
