Navigating Incentives and Regulations for Green Building

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You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar, or so the proverb tells us. That may be why new approaches to design and construction seem to be most successful when they are introduced first as voluntary measures that can be used to garner green credentials, or, increasingly, to benefit from government incentives. But as new approaches gain market acceptance they also begin to show up as mandatory measures via codes or other regulations—quickly in some areas and very slowly in others.

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