Green Building Components - Designing the Urban Landscape
In Designing the Urban Landscape
The fairly recent but traditional pattern of requiring single-use buildings in single-use zones in cities accessed by single-user vehicles, while brokering materials and products shipped from all over the world, has proved to be detrimental to communities, the environment and the global economy. Ordinances, codes, and green-building standards should not be considered the ceiling. They are one of the foundations from which a greener world will rise.
Green Ordinances
The State of California Attorney General's Office has produced a list of local government green-building ordinances that includes links to the actual ordinances themselves, and examples of cities’ minimum LEED, GreenPoint Rated, or other point requirements for private development, performance, incentives and enforcement.
The County of Alameda website, StopWaste.Org, has model ordinances.
Green Codes and Standards
California is the first state in the nation to adopt green-building standards. The new California Green Buildings Standards Code directs builders to choose materials based upon recycled content and cut energy use by current standards by 15 to 30 percent. A comprehensive set of mandatory provisions known as the 2010 California Green Building Standards Code became effective January 2011.
Building A Green Team
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Green Building Components
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Finance
Cost And Benefits
» Concerns
» Cost/Benefit Fact Points
» Environmental Costs
» Cost of Certification
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