Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate

Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate describes an exciting new field in which environmental considerations are viewed as opportunities to create fundamentally better buildings and communities - more comfortable, more efficient, more appealing and ultimately more profitable. If you're a developer, architect, planner, contractor, lender or city official, this book speaks your language. Every stage of the development process is examined in detail: market research, site planning, design, approvals, financing, construction, marketing, and occupancy. Also included are lists of project statistics and contacts, books and other information sources, and development strategies.

Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate is based on 80 case studies drawn from Rocky Mountain Institute's extensive worldwide research and consulting work and presents proven procedures and practical lessons that work in the real world.