From the course: Green Building Concepts Foundations
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Leadership and innovation
From the course: Green Building Concepts Foundations
Leadership and innovation
- Sustainability and innovation go hand in hand. Sustainability requires evaluation of business as usual. And, if how we do things is still efficient. Valuable, sustaining based on our ever evolving priorities and availability of resources. Are we designing, building and operating buildings in a specific way, just because that's the way we've always done it? As building professionals, is our role limited to how it must defined five, 10, 20 years ago? One thing that green building movement is achieving is that it's challenging our community, architects, engineers, building owners, lenders, appraisers and others, to think differently from their predecessors, or even from themselves. In less than a decade, the green building movement changed an entire building industry and manufacturing industry for construction products and equipment. With increased demand for green and healthy materials, efficient equipment and fixtures, green buildings became cost effective and achievable. As…