Monday, April 26, 2010

Research Webcast for USGBC Members, Thursday, April 29

"Sustainability and the Dynamics of Green Building" is an academic paper that looks at data from roughly 27,000 green buildings and conventional office buildings in an attempt to distill the financial value of a green designation (LEED and/or Energy Star). The paper uses market information to:

1) compare the differences in returns between green and control buildings during the recent economic downturn.

2) study rents and transaction prices of green and conventional office buildings, while rigorously controlling for quality differences.

3) decompose the green premium using information underlying the LEED and Energy Star label.

This paper is a follow-up to "Doing Well by Doing Good: Green Office Buildings."Professor John Quigley, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Nils Kok, Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, will be discussing their research regarding the economic benefits derived from green building certifications as well as providing further observations as their research continues. Learn more and register »

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