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.
There is no significant difference in average cost for green buildings as compared to non-green buildings. (Langdon, 2007)
