Green Building Fundamentals and Best Practices: Eliminating the Confusion and Helping You Make More Green
Green building certification, leasing, and maintenance are a relatively new field and without a doubt the wave of the future. However, many smaller A/E firms and general contractors still shy away green projects due to fear of the unknown and the potential for liability. In order to minimize liability and maximize the potential for success, one must properly plan, stay in constant communication with all team members and, most importantly, properly pay special attention to the contracts involved in a green building project. This 90-minute webinar explains the fundamentals of green building, best practices to maximize success, and examines potential pitfalls and how they can best be avoided. |
Green Building Fundamentals and Best Practices: Eliminating the Confusion and Helping You Make More Green
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is providing billions of dollars of funding for new construction projects, many of which must be built to green or energy efficiency standards. The Top 100 green contractors generated $38.69 billion in revenue in 2008 from projects which were certified or registered with third-party rating groups. This revenue was a 70% increase from the $22.76 billion in revenue generated by this group of contractors in 2007, and should further increase this year as a result of the aforementioned government spending.
If you are currently scared, confused, apprehensive, or intimidated by green building projects, then you and your company are missing a tremendous opportunity to add to your bottom line. Whether you understand it or not, green building is not some passing fad which can be ignored! If you and your company want to pull your chairs up to the green building table and eat a piece of the $38.69 billion dollar pie, you need to understand the fundamentals of green building and how to properly manage the unique risks and challenges it presents.
Green building certification, leasing, and maintenance are a relatively new field and without a doubt the wave of the future. However, many smaller A/E firms and general contractors still shy away green projects due to fear of the unknown and the potential for liability. In order to minimize liability and maximize the potential for success, one must properly plan, stay in constant communication with all team members and, most importantly, properly pay special attention to the contracts involved in a green building project. This 90-minute webinar explains the fundamentals of green building, best practices to maximize success, and examines potential pitfalls and how they can best be avoided.
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Who would benefit from this information? Project managers, bid specialists, directors of business development, owners, principals, in-house counsel and property managers will all benefit from this information. |
Rich Cartlidge is a graduate of Stetson University College of Law and a LEED AP who has focused his studies on the areas of sustainable development and construction. I have been recognized as one of the thought leaders in the realm of green building risk identification and mitigation.
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