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40 to 50 percent, without increases in initial construction costs. These savings can helpto balance budgets and offset budgetary cuts in critical areas such as education andpublic safety.These examples are only a snapshot of the growing appeal of sustainable development.Local governments and businesses across the country are starting to find that green businesspractices, as well as the use of green building products, can result in short- and longtermeconomic and environmental advantages for their communities and the widerglobal marketplace.IN OT E SI1 Civil Engineering Research Foundation. Innovation in the U.S. Construction Industry: An Essential Component forAmerican’s Economic Prosperity and Well-being (Washington, D.C.: Civil Engineering Research Foundation, April28, 1994), 36.2 National Science and Technology Council, Civilian Industrial Technology Committee, Subcommittee onConstruction and Building, Rationale and Preliminary Plan for Federal Research for Construction and Building(Washington, D.C.: National Science and Technology Council, September 1994), 1.3 Joseph J. Romm, Lean and Clean Management (Kodansha International, 1994), 94.4 David Rodman and Nicholas Lenssen, “A Building Revolution: How Ecology and Health Concerns AreTransforming Construction,” Worldwatch Paper 124 (March 1995), 41.5 Ibid., 39.6 Green Lights Program literature (Washington, D.C.: U.S. EPA, December 1993).7 Based on conversations with Richard Bennett, East Bay SMUD; Jane Ploeser, city of Phoenix; and LouisGeneroso, city of San Diego (November 3, 1995).8 American Water Works Association, Conservation Incentive Levels and Two Pilot Programs (Denver, Colo.: AWWA,1995), 1169 Al Gore, Earth in the Balance (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992), 151.10 Rodman and Lenssen, 23.11 Turner Construction Company case study. Information provided by Ian Campbell, Sustainability Director,206/224-4218.12 Audubon House, National Audubon Society and Croxton Collaborative (John Wiley & Sons, 1994), 134.13 Information provided by Hi-Rise Recycling Systems, Miami, Florida 305/624-9222.14 Rochester Midland, Product Information Sheet, Form 550-A (August 1993), 2.15 Barbara Lippiatt and Gregory Norris, “Selecting Environmentally and Economically Balanced BuildingMaterials” National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 888, Second International GreenBuilding Conference and Exposition— 1995 (Gaithersburg, Md.: NIST, 1995), 37.16 Lippiatt and Norris, 38.17 Envirosense Newsletter, 4, no. 2 (1995): 1-3.18 Information based on telephone conversation with Brian Lynch, DPIC Insurance (November 3, 1995).19 Romm, 102.20 Romm, 94.21 Romm, 92.22 You May Be Spending 30% of Your Life in a “Sick Building” (New York: Healthy Properties Inc.), 2.23 Nancy Reece, Savings from the Sun: Passive Solar Design for Institutional Buildings (Boulder, Colo.: American SolarEnergy Society, June 1990), 3-4.PART I: ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT I.11