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Sinani Sarma
Sinani Sarma

Several developers and builders get nervous that green-only

construction adds to a buildings cost. But they can be rest assured

that such cost can be made up in energy savings within the first

couple of years of the buildings operation.

The financial benefits of green buildings include lower energy, waste

disposal, and water costs, lower environmental and emissions costs,

lower operations and maintenance costs, and savings from increased

productivity and health. These benefits range from being fairly

predictable (energy, waste, and water savings) to relatively uncertain

(productivity/health benefits). Energy and water savings can be

predicted with reasonable precision, measured, and monitored over

time. In contrast, productivity and health gains are much less

precisely understood and far harder to predict with accuracy.

One study performed by the Heschong-Mahone group looked at students

in three cities and found that students in classrooms with the

greatest amount of daylighting performed up to 20% better than those

in classrooms that had little daylight.

A study at Herman-Miller showed up to a 7% increase in worker

productivity following a move to a green, daylit facility.

A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study found that U.S.

businesses could save as much as $58 billion in lost sick time and an

additional $200 billion in worker performance if improvements were

made to indoor air quality.

Anirban Banerjee from iDream said that in the average city, at least

forty percent of the energy consumed goes into the maintenance of its

buildings and a lot of that is spent either heating or cooling the

interior so human habitation is possible. Benefits associated with

green features include enhanced worker and student productivity, as

well as reduced absenteeism and illness.

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