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How to Design and Build a Green Office Building: A Complete Guide to Making Your New or Existing Building Environmentally Healthy by Jackie Bondanza & Author & Martha Maeda & Editor is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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As energy costs rise, more and more companies are looking to create green offices buildings – ones that use resources efficiently while simultaneously creating healthier working environments. The energy use statistics are staggering: The heating, cooling, and powering of offices accounts for 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States and are responsible for more than 70 percent of the country’s total electricity usage. Office computers consume $1 billion of electricity annually. Moreover, recent surveys demonstrate that employees are fed up with their companies’ energy-wasting ways: One-third of workers are more inclined to work for a company that is going green, and approximately 50 percent want their employers to be more environmentally friendly. How can you attract workers and reduce your costs at the same time? By going green; the tips in How to Design and Build a Green Office Building will show you how. In this book, you will learn how to protect the building occupants’ health, how to improve employee productivity, how to use resources more efficiently, how to reduce your impact on the environment, how to select a site for a new building, how to protect and

Author

Jackie Bondanza & Author & Martha Maeda & Editor

Publisher

Atlantic Publishing

Published

2012

Language

EN