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Commercial Buildings Need To Be Green, Too
The National Real Estate Investor recently that local governments are starting to mandate. Of course, LEED led the list, along with the new ANSI National Green Building Standard, GBI 01-200XP from the , expected this summer, and "" a commercial building green standard under development by a consortium including ASHRAE and the (creator of the LEED standards).
A commercial real estate development (image by MK Media Productions, CC 2.0 licensed)
The , also known as the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, "showing" that building green is not a winner in terms of payback. Apparently timed to coincide with a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on improving building energy code standards, the report found, according to , that:
A 50 percent energy improvement beyond federal standards is technically impossible. A 30 percent target is achievable, but only by adding a million-dollar solar system that could take up to 100 years to pay for itself
