Think Tank: green building revolution

The rate of global green building is expected to double by 2018, reports a study by Dodge Data & Analytics and United Technologies Corporation. World Green Building Trends 2016, Developing Markets Accelerate Global Green Growth, predicts that the percentage of companies expecting more than 60 per cent of their building projects to be certified green is to more than double by 2018. (It’s currently 18 per cent, and the prediction is for it to rise to 37 per cent.)

Meanwhile, another newly published study has linked lower average carbon emissions to buildings managed with a traditional maintenance contract.

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