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A 4 page paper discussing 3 "green," LEED-certified buildings and proposing research into the practicalities of building green. Businesses are pressured on all sides to operate more efficiently, and research that illuminates the true costs and cost savings of "green" buildings can be valuable to all businesses. In this vein the proposed research will focus on (1) actual costs of either new construction or retrofitting of existing buildings; (2) changes in operational costs resulting from the green focus; and (3) the potential value that organizations can find in social responsibility as a result of their efforts. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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practitioners moan over "scope creep," the tendency for projects to grow over time to much more involved and detailed projects than when they began. The same appears to be
true with "green" buildings. In the case of the Lewis Center at Oberlin College, the goal was to produce a building that would be a net energy producer, not
only meeting all of its own energy needs but also providing excess energy for the local electric utility. Certainly that was a fine
goal, but that project fell victim to scope creep as well. Those involved in the project decided that if the building was environmentally friendly, then the materials it was
constructed from; its landscaping; and its use of water should be too. Even though it eventually gained extremely high targets and after four years of use had not attained
its energy goals, it has proved to be a functional building that uses far less energy than any other campus building. The proposed research will focus on that endpoint
as being the single most desirable feature, though building costs and maintenance issues will figure prominently as well. Evolution of Green Buildings Lewis Center
Organizations reasons for constructing environmentally friendly buildings are as varied as the designs that have emerged through the years. At Ohios Oberlin College, Dr. David Orr essentially received
a challenge, one of effectively putting the schools money where Dr. Orrs mouth was. After teaching and researching environmental issues for three decades, the school challenged him to design
and construct a building that could, as he had been teaching, indeed be a net energy producer rather than only a consumer of it. The Lewis Center opened in
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