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Monday, December 08, 2008
Green Building Growth Continues in 2008
LEED project certifications topped 2,100 and LEED project registrations exceeded 16,000, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Green Building Council. Through November 2008, 113 LEED Platinum projects had been certified, about 5 percent of the total project certifications, a ratio that has been fairly consistent for the past few years. The fastest growing LEED system is Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance (LEED EBOM), which has nearly tripled the number of registered projects so far this year, compared with year-end 2007, going from 769 registered projects to 2,063. The average size project is now nearly 350,000 sq.ft., up from 285,000 sq.ft., indicating that larger facilities are signing up for certification than ever before. As another indicator of progress, A recent survey by corporate real estate trade group CoreNet Global and real estate advisory firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) found that 70 percent of corporate real estate executives identify sustainability as a “critical business issue,” up more than 20 percent from a year ago. In the residential sector, LEED for Homes continues to gather steam, as builders look for some marketing advantage in a very tough climate, with the number of homes registered for certification at 13,750, up 34 percent this year. There were more than 1,100 LEED certified homes, including 164 (15 percent of the total) at the Platinum level. LEED is alive and well, even if the economy is way down; the green building movement continues!
Posted by Jerry on 12/08/2008 at 03:14 PM
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