Playbook for Green Buildings + Neighborhoods | Buildings

The emergence of green building codes and standards... is an important next step for the green building movement.

June 2010

Building Codes are the tools we use to ensure the basic health and safety of a building's occupants. They have long played an important role in establishing minimum standards of practice to ensure fire, structural and sanitary safety in homes, schools, offices, and public buildings of all types.

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Source: ASHRAE Journal's Guide to Standard 189.1

The City of New York's GHG inventory revealed that over 60% of the city’s government emissions were from municipal buildings and 79% of the emissions citywide were related to operation of buildings.(New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability, 2007)