Making the Right Decisions for Your Green Project via Multifamily Executive Magazine

You’ve decided to green-certify your property, and you’ve chosen your program. Now, you need to do the right things, in the right order, to get through the certification process with the least impact on your schedule and budget.

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When you use a GPS on a trip, if you make a wrong turn, it adjusts and puts you back on the right path. There is no green building GPS that will self-correct as you go, so you have to make all the right decisions from the very beginning. When you make a wrong decision early in the process, it can cost you money, time, long-term energy costs, and increased maintenance for the life of the building. A similarly lost opportunity occurs if you wait until your design is almost finished to decide to certify or choose a program. At that point, you have fewer chances to improve performance, keep costs in line, and meet green program requirements. For all these reasons, it’s always better to design green from the start.

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