Why Choose Green?
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Reduced waste and pollution
Construction and building operation are huge contributors to pollution around the world. Construction activities are responsible for billions of cubic yards of landfill waste every year. Old building systems pollute the air with harmful refrigerants. Inefficient energy usage causes more air pollution from power plants. Even light pollution is a problem in some areas.
Certified green projects reduce all of these pollution sources through:
- Reuse of building materials from pre-existing structures.
- Reduction of construction waste.
- Mandated refrigerant selection.
- Storage and collection of recyclable materials.
- Control of lighting sources on buildings and surrounding property.
- Using materials with high recycled content.
- Reduction of transportation pollution by rewarding selection of materials that originate close to the project site.
- Rewarding use of construction materials that do not give off polluting chemicals to the air.
- And of course ... reduced energy consumption.
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