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For Immediate Release

Bayer MaterialScience LLC advocates holistic approach to commercial building design and construction

Paul Platte among distinguished panel urging collaborative, strategic approach to energy management at National Press Club Newsmakers Committee event

January 22, 2010

Pittsburgh, January 22, 2010 — To meet the market need for more sustainable building solutions, suppliers, academia and government must work together seamlessly and collaboratively. This approach — one that Bayer MaterialScience LLC advocates and supports — was outlined by Paul Platte, head, EcoCommercial Building Program, NAFTA, Bayer MaterialScience LLC, during a National Press Club Newsmakers Committee event.

Other participants in this panel discussion, held earlier this month in Washington, D.C., were: Richard Kidd, program manager, Federal Energy Management Program, U.S. Department of Energy; Dr. Gregory Reed, director and associate professor, Power and Energy Initiative, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh; and Paul Cody, vice president and general manager, Electrical Service and Systems Division, Eaton Corporation.

"In order to work seamlessly and collaboratively with other suppliers, academia and government, Bayer MaterialScience favors a holistic approach that breaks down the traditional 'walls,' if you will, of the construction process, and replaces them with an 'open plan' that delivers state-of-the-art building solutions," said Platte.

"To achieve this holistic approach, the diverse expertise of architects, engineering firms, financiers, material and component suppliers, academia and government is combined to yield the needed ecological and economic solutions sought by building decision makers up and down the value chain," Platte continued.

During his presentation, Platte outlined how, by working collaboratively, this network is able to address the "Six Es" of Sustainable Building Solutions: energy savings, environmentally friendly materials, emission-reducing materials, efficiency in application, ecology and economics.

Platte emphasized that the last 'E' — economics — is especially important, because while achieving a building which is sustainable is the right thing to do to be a good corporate citizen, it is also the right thing to do from a business perspective.

Bayer MaterialScience's materials play an important role in a number of sustainable building design and construction solutions. These include:

Solid and multi-wall architectural sheets of polycarbonate for glazing, sky lights and façade cladding which enable daylighting with reduced energy usage and aid visual comfort.
Sealing systems, based on Bayer MaterialScience's polyurethane raw materials, for sealing flat roofs to produce a seamless, highly root-resistant protective layer that also aids energy savings by significantly reducing drafts.
LED lighting systems that can illuminate while reducing electricity consumption and heat loads are enhanced by the company's polycarbonates when used in LED lenses and lamp housings providing the lighting system excellent service life in all types of conditions.
The properties of coating systems based on Bayer MaterialScience's raw materials are characterized by high resistance to aging and low maintenance costs while doing so with low solvent or waterborne formulations.
Spray or rigid polyurethane foam from Bayer MaterialScience is used for indoor and outdoor thermal insulation of roofs, walls and floors. The energy saved, over the life of a building, by the polyurethane insulation foam can yield a better than 50-to-1 return on the embedded energy to produce the foam.
Photovoltaic modules are used to harvest solar energy. The company's TPU encapsulant film enables efficient embedding of solar cells into the film to yield high-quality photovoltaic modules. Also, polyurethane in combination with pultrusion technology enables a light-weight, modular framing system aiding installation of building integrated photovoltaic elements onto the roof.

"Taken all together, we call this holistic, collaborative approach to materials and component solutions Bayer MaterialScience's EcoCommercial Building (ECB) Program," said Platte.

To date, there are three ECB projects underway — an operational children's day care center for employees of Bayer CropScience in Germany, an operational Bayer administration building in Belgium and an office building under construction in India. The company will be announcing plans for its ECB program in NAFTA later this year, according to Platte.

Bayer MaterialScience, a prominent provider of materials, has given its support to a proposal by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) for a globally consistent Common Carbon Metric for Buildings which will provide a common language for measuring greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency of buildings.

Bayer MaterialScience LLC is one of the leading producers of polymers and high-performance plastics in North America and is part of the global Bayer MaterialScience business with nearly 15,100 employees at 30 sites around the world and 2008 sales of 9.7 billion euros. Business activities are focused on the manufacture of high-tech polymer materials and the development of innovative solutions for products used in many areas of daily life. The main segments served are the automotive, electrical and electronics, construction, medical, and sports and leisure industries.

For more information about Bayer MaterialScience, call 1-800-662-2927, e-mail naftainfo@bayerbms.com or visit www.bayermaterialsciencenafta.com.

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Paul Platte, head, EcoCommercial Building Program, NAFTA, Bayer MaterialScience LLC, was among distinguished panel urging collaborative, strategic approach to energy management at National Press Club Newsmakers Committee event.