Does building green cost more?
From Inhabitat:
Buildings account for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions - AND - making a building “green” costs just 5% more in construction costs.
Technically, yes, a little, but it’s a price we can’t afford not to pay.
Read the full post at Inhabitat.
Orrin said,
September 5, 2007 @ 8:31 pm
I have yet to see the numbers in the study because inhabitat is not linking to it correctly. I wonder if the study includes ongoing maintenance costs of “green building” and also post-use costs like demo and/re rebuilding/re-purposing the building.
Maybe the study includes it, but I haven’t seen it. There are more then just construction costs that need to be accounted for.