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Green Building Materials '$254bn Annual Market by 2020'
The worldwide market for green construction materials will grow from $116 billion in 2013 to greater than $254 billion in 2020, according to a report from Navigant Research.
These green building materials will range from traditional materials that are being revalued for their minimal impacts to new technologies that enable better passive and active building performance.
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The Future Looks Bright for Green Homes
Defining green homes as those that are built to a recognized green building standard (NAHB, LEED for Homes, ENERGY STAR) as well as those that are energy and water efficient (addressing both indoor air quality and/or resource efficiency), just 2 percent of the market and an estimated $6 billion of value qualified.
Those numbers made gains even as the housing bubble burst and economic recession took hold. In 2008, green homes made up 8 percent of the market and $10 billion in value and rose to 17 percent of the market and $17 billion in value by 2011.
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The Partnership for Sustainable Communities has had a rough couple of years. The program got zeroed out of the 2012 budget, and the 2013 budget is just a carbon copy of 2012. But they're looking to make a comeback.
The three-agency partnership celebrates its fourth anniversary in June. In those four years, the collaborative effort among U.S. DOT, HUD, and EPA has entrenched and strengthened the Obama administration's multi-disciplinary approach to smart growth, weaving together transportation, housing, and environmental policy. The partnership's grants and technical assistance have helped transform communities and make them more economically and environmentally resilient.
In that vein, HUD's Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities - the mothership of the whole program - is becoming the Office of Economic Resilience, embedded within an existing HUD program called Community Planning and Development. That could help preserve the sustainability work, since it'll now be part of a program that Congress hasn't targeted for cuts.
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Earlier this week, amongst the Earth Day shindigs and the unveiling of what's being dubbed as the greenest commercial building in the world, the American Institute of Architects and its Commitee on the Environment (COTE) singled out a motley and magnificent assemblage of "sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment" to represent the 2013 COTE Top Ten Green Projects program.
The AIA's annual top-ten-in-green list - now in its 17th year - has always churned out an impressively mixed bag of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings with a smattering of visitor centers, research facilities, and schools thrown in for good measure. I'm going to have to disagree with Gizmodo's Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan when she remarks: "A few years ago, this list was full of single-family homes commissioned by clients with a special interest in sustainability."
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NEWS BRIEFS
Corbin Prows has joined Do it Best Corp. as the Retail Program Manager, a key addition to the co-op team as the company continues to develop and enhance its industry-leading retail programs. MORE>>
Simpson Strong-Tie is joining other industry associations and organizations in supporting the International Code Council's (ICC) 2013 Building Safety Month in May. As a Supporting Sponsor, Simpson Strong-Tie is encouraging the industry and the general public to learn more about ways to make buildings, homes and decks safe and strong.
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June 5-6 PCBC 2013, San Diego, Calif., www.pcbc.com
August 21-23 Florida Building Material Association (FBMA) Convention and Gulf Atlantic Building Products Expo, Orlando, www.FBMA.org, 352.383.0366
October 17-19 West Coast Lumber & Building Material Association (WCLBMA) Annual Convention, San Diego, Calif.,
www.lumberassociation.org, 800.266.4344
October 19-21 Do it Best Corp. October Market, Indianapolis, Ind., www.doitbestcorp.com, 888-DOITBEST
October 28-29 Principia Composite Decking & Railing Conference, Baltimore, www.deckrailconference.com
November 11-13 STAFDA Annual Convention & Trade Show, Las Vegas, www.stafda.org
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