The top ten green trends for 2014

Intelligent Building an interesting article by Jerry Yudelson on his thoughts for the top ten green trends for 2014, makes you think!

Jerry Yudelson, one of the world’s leading green building consultants, keynote speakers and authors, thinks he knows what the green building trends will be in 2014 and offers a list of his top ten ideas. Yudelson is sure that green building is set to be “the future that will inundate the entire real estate industry.”

His top ten ideas are as follows:

• Green building in North America will see strong growth in 2014.
• There will be a growing focus on energy efficiency in all kinds of buildings.
• There will be an increase in the design and operation of zero-net-energy buildings.
• LEED will see an increase in competitors such as the Green Globes rating system.
• The green building industry will focus on renovating existing buildings rather than building new ones.
• Green buildings will be designed and managed by cloud technologies.
• Green Building Performance Disclosure will continue to be a major trend.
• Healthy Building Products, Product Disclosure Declarations and ‘Red Lists’ of chemicals of concern will be increasingly important.
• There will be a rise in the use of solar power.
• Awareness of the coming crisis in fresh water supply will increase.

About the author

Carl Nelson

Carl has over 15 yrs of experience in construction works including, Design & Planning, Project Management using GC/Wks & JCT Forms of Contracts. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building (FCIOB) and member of the Chartered Institution of Occupational Safety & Health (MIOSH). Carl takes a keen interest in Adjudication and is a member of the Forum for International Conciliation& Arbitration (FICA) and a named member for Dispute Resolvers.