Green Building Practices

Hello,

Some of you might be interested in a recent report commissioned by the Cape and Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative. The report describes the results of thirty interviews done with architects and builders who had attended a full-day workshop on green building practices almost two years earlier. Interviewees gave thoughtful responses to questions about:

-- the extent to which they subsequently applied information from the workshop in their work;

-- their level of satisfaction with green building practices, in terms of implementation difficulty and performance;

-- factors that have stopped them from integrating green building practices more fully into their work;

-- the mechanisms through which they have obtained clients for green building projects, and the motivations that influence clients desire for green building practices;

-- the extent to which applying green building practices has changed the way that they market their services;

-- the extent to which applying green building practices has affected the bottom line for them; and

-- what would help them integrate high performance green building practices into their work and what advice they would have for others who are interested in doing so.

The report can be accessed at: http://www.acetiassociates.com/pubs/ ReportFinalCIREC2.pdf.

Regards,
Jan

Jan Aceti
Aceti Associates
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