Green certified buildings are delivering billions of dollars in health, climate and energy-saving benefits, according to a major new study from Harvard University. Engineering giant United Technologies Corporation (UTC) commissioned a team of researchers at the university to study how LEED certified buildings had performed over a 16 year period in six key markets: the US, China, India, Brazil and Germany.
The final peer-reviewed report, which was published in Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, concluded that the green buildings studied had delivered $7.5bn in energy savings.
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