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GROWING GREEN.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: GROWING GREEN.(Real Estate & Housing)(Building industry coalesces around environmental techniques)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Randi Bjornstad The Register-Guard

Concern about global warming, energy conservation and rapid depletion of the Earth's nonrenewable resources has not gone unheeded in the building industry in the United States.

Manufacturers, financiers, insurance companies, builders, utilities and designers nationwide have formed a coalition to encourage - and confer honors upon - huge industries and small builders alike that choose to use environmentally friendly building and landscaping techniques.

The U.S. Green Building Council, which includes more than 4,000 volunteer member organizations nationwide, has developed a checklist of dozens of ways buildings can be constructed to save resources, reduce energy consumption and provide better working and living environments for their inhabitants.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.'s new call center in Springfield recently won a "gold" rating - the second-highest possible - from the council, one of only 10 buildings in Oregon so far to score that many points on the USGBC's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.

"Our plan all along was to build a LEED-certified building," said Chris Monnette, director of Royal Caribbean's Oregon trade support and service. "As we got into it, we...

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