This to me is the ultimate question and has been my ultimate quest for the past 6 years. Folks that are in my industry are finding it a necessary requirement to advance some sort of "green" service to their business, if you haven't then you are being left way behind. The problem I have with this though, is the lack of education and misleading information concerning the "green" movement and for that matter "global warming".
A broker friend of mine, Brian Parrish of the Dickman Company, Inc. ran an online poll via LinkedIN and asked owners of businesses the question of going green and whether or not they would be willing to pay more, less, or the same to become or to be called "green". The conclusion of the poll came down to this; businesses are willing to go "green" but not if it costs them additional money to do so.
On the surface this presents a potentially difficult challenge to those of us in the design and construction industry. Is it possible to deliver a "green" design and building that does not cost more than a non-green version of the same? My answer to that question is yes, yes, yes it can be done, and in the case of industrial buildings it can be done rather easily and I might argue for less than the typical industrial buildings being built around the seven counties comprising SE Wisconsin over the past 10 years.
Over the next few weeks I will go into detail complete with pictures and other data to support this claim. Please feel free to share this and other blogs on this subject especially to those you might know that could take advantage of this information.
Great article. Look forward to future articles. From an electrical perspective I agree. The cost doesn't need to increase to go green.
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