OVERVIEW
Reduced operational costs, improved occupant health and productivity, and buildings with small ecological footprints: these are the ways we make the case for green buildings.
What about first cost?
Perhaps to the detriment of green building adoption, we’ve been letting flashy products and innovative case studies paint a picture of higher first costs for green buildings. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Constraints fuel creativity, and plenty of projects are leveraging budgets limitations to meet sustainability goals by designing simpler, more effective spaces.
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Parts of Obama's 'Better Buildings' Plan Ready to Go
News Brief
President Obama's Better Buildings Initiative is designed to increase buildings efficiency while also creating green jobs. Some of the plans will go into effect almost immediately.
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"World's Largest" Concentrating Solar Plant Receives Funding
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Congress Extends Renewable Energy Grants
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NYSERDA Green Homes Cash Incentive Program Announced
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Preliminary Study Supports LEED Productivity Benefits
News Analysis
Workers moving from existing buildings to new LEED-certified buildings were surveyed for before-and-after health and productivity changes.
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Mortgage Policies Threaten PACE Programs
News Analysis
Commercial and residential PACE (property assessed clean energy) programs have been steadily growing throughout the U.S. Now the secondary mortgage market has raise red flags that could kill the promising program, but states are fighting back.
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Commercial Real Estate Stimulus Pushed by Architecture 2030
News Analysis
Architecture 2030 has released a report calling for an increased energy-efficiency tax deduction to solve a looming commercial real-estate crisis. Experts question whether the solution would help.
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Less Is More, Says New Development Company
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American Standard Donates $1 Million to Nature Conservancy
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PACE Financing for Energy Improvements
Primer
PACE financing offers a mechanism for homeowners and small businesses to borrow money for energy improvements and repay those loans through real estate taxes.
