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Saturday, 14 September 2013

Value of green homes for home builders, banks and home buyers

Mapping of current 'evidence' needed to build a case for energy efficient and green residential buildings for home builders, banks and home buyers. Please do send me more.
For commercial buildings "The Business Case for Green Buildings" from the WGBC is a great place to start http://www.worldgbc.org/activities/business-case/
 

 Reference
1, 2, 4,5 http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/certified-homes-outperform-non-certified-homes-for-fourth-year-in-portland-metro-region-123477939.html
3 http://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu/pdf/DLQ_economic_returns_Singapore_May_2012.pdf
6 http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=bldrs_lenders_raters.pt_bldr
7 http://www.grihaindia.org and http://www.igbc.in/site/igbc/testigbc.jsp?desc=115708&event=115679
8 http://www.imt.org/uploads/resources/files/IMT_UNC_HomeEEMortgageRisksfinal.pdf
9 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/an-investigation-of-the-effect-of-epc-ratings-on-house-prices
10, 11 http://www.fhfa.gov/webfiles/24371/25_Professors_Kahn_of_UCLA_Law_School_and_Kok_of_UC_Berkeley.pdf
12 http://www.qualite-logement.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/documentation/Etude_valeurverteEN.pdf
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