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The green future is here. Like the dramatic, occasionally unsettling, and ultimately beneficial transformations wrought by the introduction of electric lights, telephones, elevators, and air-conditioning, green building principles are changing how we construct and use our workplaces and homes.
In fact, the owners of standard buildings face obsolescence. They must act now to protect their investments. Soon, financial institutions and investors will use new valuation methodologies to quantify important green building factors like productivity and long-term life cycle costs when determining real estate values.
Corporations now have tools that are proven to lower overhead costs, improve productivity, and strengthen the bottom line.
Homeowners are turning in greater numbers to healthier homes that increase in market value at a faster rate than traditional homes.
Governments and governmental officials have a unique and pivotal role to play in expanding green jobs and business opportunities in the green economy, particularly as it relates to the built environment. Construction personnel throughout the country must be trained and credentialed in order to meet environmental and health goals. And to ensure that these trained and credentialed construction personnel are employed, preferences and requirements for them need to be made in projects administered by governments.
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