Accurate, consistent performance data are essential to promoting trade in energy-efficient building materials such as insulation and energy-efficient roofs and windows and decreasing energy use. ESCI will establish a buildings materials testing and rating center to provide such data so that consumers and businesses will feel confident in buying energy-efficient building components from anywhere in APEC.

Accurate, consistent performance data are essential to promoting trade in energy-efficient building materials such as insulation and energy-efficient roofs and windows and decreasing energy use. ESCI will establish a buildings materials testing and rating center to provide such data so that consumers and businesses will feel confident in buying energy-efficient building components from anywhere in APEC. A major economic benefit will be that the center will help spur global investment in local manufacturing plants. Host economies will create local manufacturing jobs, and investing economies will have raw material, supplies and equipment order demand creating jobs in their home economy. The overall net effect will be clean energy development that otherwise would not have occurred. This fundamental infrastructure and related capacity building activity, is a prerequisite to effective voluntary and mandatory building adoption.