Green Building Value of Green Thesis

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Building new green homes and making existing unsold homes green is the core of such a strategy, as applied to the housing market today. Green building can refer to a wide range of industry practices, spanning from simply installing energy-efficient windows, doors, and light bulbs to reduce environmental wastage and enhance customer value to more radical ideas like solar power, or constructing entire apartment units that require the use of environmentally-friendly cleaning products. While adding value through 'greening' a building can be added at any stage of the building's lifecycle, "from design and construction, to renovation and deconstruction. However, the most significant benefits can be obtained if the design and construction team takes an integrated approach from the earliest stages of a building project" (Why build green, 2009, EPA).

Customers, worried about the long-term health of the U.S.
economy and the planet, can see their self-interest and the interest of the planet meet in environmentally sound construction. The customized nature of green building, suiting the building to the specific needs and assets of the environment such as solar power in the Southwest, for example, makes it even more attractive to consumers. Going green has become both trendy and necessary, and given the new administration's emphasis on green technology and sustainable commerce, this sector of the market seems the most likely to weather the current economic downturn, and to flourish far into the future.

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