Thirty-six Pratt & Whitney facilities are ISO 14001 certified and 13 sites are OHSAS 18001 certified. We have 11 OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) sites and had five Environmental Performance Agency Performance Track sites until the Performance Track program was terminated in May 2009. New buildings and renovations are designed to U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards. Currently, three facilities are under construction and one, Pratt & Whitney Power Systems – UTC’s first LEED-certified building – opened in 2008.

The LEED rating system is a widely accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. The rating system is organized into five categories. Different levels of green building certification are awarded by USGBC based on the total credits earned. Platinum is the highest level, followed by Gold.

We are taking other actions to turn otherwise wasted power plant heat into process steam at our East Hartford and Middletown, Conn., sites which will reduce fuel usage and CO2 produced.