On the Cost of Building “Green”
In The News
“Green” construction is gaining in popular market awareness, with 13% of the United States commercial office stock now certified by LEED and/or ENERGY STAR. It has become common knowledge that buildings can play a key role in the reduction of energy consumption and carbon emissions. Yet new construction and building refurbishments are still mostly conventional: in the United States just 38 percent of current construction is earmarked as “green,” while some 12 percent of total construction employment was in green construction in 2011.
