Why Green Buildings?
Buildings represent the single largest opportunity for energy and natural resource efficiency in the United States. Buildings are voracious energy, water and electricity hogs that consume 70% of the electricity and 40% of the energy in the United States. This doesn't even consider water (12%) or the challenges of indoor air quality and how important that is for our well-being. Think about it... We spend over 90% of our waking hours indoors.

Green buildings consume less than conventional buildings across all of these resource areas. By installing efficient lighting, up to date mechanical systems and plumbing fixtures, buildings can consume up to 75% less electricity, 30% less energy and water.

What is Green-Buildings.com?
Green-Buildings.com is a free online community where you can get advice and share your knowledge about any topic related to commercial green buildings, green building products and the LEED green building rating system. It's also your source for the best LEED exam prep products and courses.

What makes Green-Buildings.com unique?
The people behind Green-Buildings.com believe that all green building investments should be quantifiable in terms of return on investment (ROI). What makes us so passionate about sustainability are the positive triple bottom line results (people, planet and profit) that high-efficiency building operations can achieve. You can rest assured that we're as dedicated to sustainable commercial building operations and green building as you are.

Who is Green-Building.com?
Green-Buildings.com was founded by Rob Freeman Jr. and Yehuda Fruchter.

Rob has over seven years of experience increasing value and improving ROI as a real estate asset manager and property manager for Greyfields Investors LLC, a New York real estate private equity company. After successfully employing environmental sustainability strategies to increase real estate investment value, he launched Green-Buildings.com in 2008 to help others in the industry benefit from the green building revolution. Rob is a LEED Accredited Professional and a member of the New York Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, the Emerging Green Builders of New York and the Urban Land Institute.

Yehuda has over seven years of experience developing online content portals targeting niche industry verticals. Prior to Green-Buildings.com, Yehuda founded OsseoNews.com, which is the largest publication worldwide focusing on dental implants, one of the fastest growing medical device markets.

Additional Contributors

Green-Buildings.com welcomes contributions and has published original content from real estate investment professionals, sustainability consultants, analysts and LEED APs.

Green-Buildings.com is a member of the United States Green Building Council.

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