{"id":52,"date":"2009-04-21T22:14:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T05:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-05-17T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T16:08:44","slug":"trends-in-green-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Trends in Green Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>McGraw-Hill estimates the green building industry will be worth $60 billion by 2010 &#8211; EcoHome, April 2009<\/li>\n<li>According to Freedonia Group, a leader in business research study, recycled-content (e.g. fly ash, slag) concrete sales reached $9.5B in 2008, representing 15% of green building materials. Demand is forecasted to grow at about 8.5% per year, reaching $14.3B in 2013. Among green building materials, concrete is second only to floor coverings in dollar volume.<\/li>\n<li>In the US, buildings account for:\n<ul class=\"unIndentedList\">\n<li>48% of total energy use [1] and 70% of electricity use [2]<\/li>\n<li>12% of water consumption [3]<\/li>\n<li>30% of greenhouse gas emissions [4]<\/li>\n<li>30% of raw material use [5]<\/li>\n<li>30% of waste output\/136 million tons annually [5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">References:<br \/>\n1. U.S. Energy Information Administration statistics<br \/>\n2. 2003 U.S. DOE Buildings Energy Databook<br \/>\n3. U.S. Geological Service, 1995 data.<br \/>\n4. U.S. Energy Information Administration statistics<br \/>\n5. US Green Building Council<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McGraw-Hill estimates the green building industry will be worth $60 billion by 2010 &#8211; EcoHome, April 2009 According to Freedonia Group, a leader in business research study, recycled-content (e.g. fly ash, slag) concrete sales reached $9.5B in 2008, representing 15% of green building materials. Demand is forecasted to grow at about 8.5% per year, reaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tahomagroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}