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- 07/26/10 02:44 AM
Green Building to Balloon to $173.5 Billion The most recent issue of EL Insights reports that the U.S. green building market value will jump from $71.1 billion now to $173 billion by 2015. Commercial green building is expected to grow by 18.1 percent annually during the same time period, from $35.6 billion to $81.8 billion. In the report, green building is defined as development with resource use and employee productivity in mind. The high project growth is attributed to a growing recognition of green building's potential cost savings and incentives from the government, like the multi-million dollar Sustainable Communities Challenge Planning (1 comments)