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Sustainability Requires Durability

Posted on March 23, 2009

A great piece on why we must build durable buildings to be “green” buildings. A new house or new building is not very “green” if the life expectancy is 50 years compared to 100 or 200 years.

Green buildings must be durable buildings. If you double the life of a building, no matter what the building is made of, you halve the environmental impact of its construction. But aren’t we building durable green buildings?

(Via Greensource Magazine.)

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