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The Future of Sustainable Building

Posted on September 24, 2008

This article was written by Patrick Rollens in October 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.By 2030, about half of the buildings in America will have been built after 2000. This statistic, courtesy of Professor Arthur C. Nelson's report for the Brookings Institution, means that over the next 25 years, we will be responsible for re-creating half the volume of our built environment. The report has been around since 2004, but Nelson re-examined his own findings last year to see if the housing market's downturn impacted the forecast. The sheer volume w...

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