The Sustainable Market Grows

摘要

The market for sustainable design and construction is beginning to accelerate again after some uncertainty and confusion over the impact of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design's Version 4 (v4) sustainability standards. Concerns about v4's costs and compliance difficulty have caused a rush among clients to register their projects under LEED's 2009 standards before Oct. 31, 2016, when USGBC halted LEED 2009 support.