Knowing where staff and local building industry professionals stand is a vital step to knowing where and how to focus efforts and priorities for developing a green building program.
Jefferson Green, a LEED Gold market-rate speculative office building is designed to use 30 percent less water and 45 percent less energy than a typical office building in Albuquerque, NM. Courtesy of: Patrick Coulie ©2007
- To create a benchmark for measuring progress, most green building programs assess existing conditions as one of their early actions.
- Many local governments already have a clear understanding of the capacity for practicing and promoting green building.
Green features included in 2% of new homes built in the United States in 2006, created a $7.4 billion market for green homes.
(McGraw Hill Construction, 2006)
