On May 29, Ma Zhenzhu, Party Committee Secretary and General Manager of CTC, met with Mr. Zhou Weifang, President of the Consumer Business Group of UL, and his two-member delegation. Deputy General Manager Chen Lu also attended the meeting. During the visit, the two sides held friendly talks and signed a cooperation agreement on the SPOT™ database platform. CTC officially joined the UL SPOT™ database platform as a data content provider for the SPOT™ platform.

As the industry's largest and most trusted green product database, the UL SPOT™ database has become the preferred search tool for green products among private and government purchasers. Architects, designers, manufacturers, and consumers can all search online for products with sustainability attributes and find products that contribute to LEED and Wellness Building credits. More than 50,000 products have been labeled with "sustainability" attributes.

The inclusion of CTC-certified product data in the UL SPOT™ database will supplement the existing database with more green and environmentally friendly product data from Chinese local building materials manufacturers, providing great convenience for architects, designers, manufacturers, and professional purchasers when procuring green and environmentally friendly products for Chinese local projects. In addition, UL has developed a plug-in for AutoDesk® Revit® users to access the SPOT™ database and directly apply relevant product data to users' projects. In the future, product data certified by CTC will also be included in this plug-in, allowing users to query and select trusted green products at a glance.

"China is the world's largest construction market and is rapidly becoming one of the largest green and environmentally friendly building markets," said Zhou Weifang, President of the Consumer Business Group of UL. "With the addition of CTC-certified product data, the UL SPOT™ green product database will become the most valuable and efficient material selection tool for architects, designers, and builders in the Chinese market."

"After more than 60 years of active exploration and unremitting efforts, CTC has developed into a large-scale comprehensive third-party inspection and certification service institution in the fields of domestic building and decoration materials and construction engineering," said Ma Zhenzhu, General Manager of CTC. "Incorporating CTC-certified product data into the UL SPOT™ platform will give Chinese manufacturers' products greater exposure on an impartial third-party platform and help architects, designers, and professionals obtain this product information during building information modeling."

CTC inherits the rigorous and scientific research attitude of China Building Materials Academy, actively practices the mission of making life better, upholds the quality philosophy of "Delivering Trust, Serving Development," and provides healthy, safe, and high-quality third-party testing and certification services to the public. In recent years, by providing integrated indoor decoration environmental protection control models such as decoration scheme assessment, production process and construction process control of decoration materials, handling of abnormal environmental protection conditions, and air quality monitoring, CTC has served key projects such as the Beijing APEC Meeting, Hangzhou G20 Summit, Xiamen BRICS Summit, and the construction of Beijing Municipal Administrative Center, winning widespread recognition from society and promoting quality improvement and sustainable development in China's building materials and decoration industries. CTC becoming the first institution in mainland China to join the UL SPOT™ database also demonstrates the trust and recognition of CTC's professional technical capabilities by international peers such as UL.