The Revolution in Property Management: Chapter 14 of The Green Building Revolution
Green building advocates realized early on that existing developments represent a major opportunity for achieving energy and water savings and reducing the overall environmental impacts of building operations.
Green building advocates realized early on that existing developments represent a major opportunity for achieving energy and water savings and reducing the overall environmental impacts of building operations. After all, in any five-year period, new construction and major renovations affect only a small fraction of the existing building stock. As a result, the USGBC created the LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) standard in 2004, as a means to benchmark building operations against a variety of sustainability criteria. By the end of 2006, nearly 250 projects had registered to participate in LEED- EB, and about 40 had been certified. Compared with the success of the LEED- NC program, this program has had a slow start. Nevertheless, there is considerable evidence that the LEED-EB program is poised to take off, as more organizations begin to track their carbon footprint and attempt to reduce it.
This is an excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s book, The Green Building Revolution.
To read the entire chapter, click here to download the PDF version.
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