The U.S. Green Building Council announced today that it will commit $1 million to green building research. This coincidentally relates to our earlier post today on green architecture.
"The industry needs to take giant steps forward in construction,
renovation and operation practices if we want to see large scale
improvements to health and environmental conditions in this generation," said Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chair of
USGBC.
The USGBC has created this funding in responce to publishing their survey Green Building Research Funding: An Assessment of Current Activity in the United States which found that research related to high-performance green building practices and technologies is underfunded by all sectors (only 0.2% of all Federally funded research – an average of $193 million per year). Should any of us be surprised.
"Building operation consumes 40 percent of energy and 71 percent of the
electricity in the United States, and accounts for 39 percent of the
country’s carbon dioxide emissions, which is directly influencing
global climate change," said Peter Templeton, vice president of
research and education, USGBC.
The USGBC Research Committee will publish
a national green building research agenda this fall that identifies key
research areas for advancing building performance and market
transformation.
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