one in 1000 new buildings meet readily achievable high performance standards. Cities and counties can start improving this score by understanding the high performance building continuum.
Because buildings are responsible for about two-thirds of U.S. electricity consumption and nearly half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, cities wanting to go green have no choice but to take a hard look at their policies related to commercial building within the community as well as their own design and operational practices.
With this article, CitiesGoGreen starts a series focusing on high performance building in which we’ll examine the challenges and benefits for cities that adopt and promote the practice. We will report on the aspects of low-energy commercial buildings related to cities, including political leadership, technologies, design strategies and policies.
The series will also offer profiles of building projects—and the people behind them —including what worked and what didn’t when goals were not met.
Read the rest of the article, the first in our Efficient Buildings series, in the September 2008 CitiesGoGreen magazine.
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