Green Options » Lloyd Architects http://greenoptions.com/tag/lloyd-architects Posts tagged 'Lloyd Architects' Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:10:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Green Architecture and the Future of Building http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/03/16/green-architecture-and-the-future-of-building/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/03/16/green-architecture-and-the-future-of-building/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:10:30 +0000 Scott Cooney http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/03/16/green-architecture-and-the-future-of-building/ There may be few occupations that have more opportunity to incorporate sustainable choices into their products, services, and day-to-day operations than architecture.  The market for green building has cooled down along with everything else, but it seems inevitable that it will replace its traditional counterpart faster than most other sustainable industries.  Organic foods, for example, grew 20% year after year for almost a decade before slowing to a 6% growth in overall sales last year, but no one believes that organic will completely replace traditional agriculture anytime soon. Green building, however, may be lined up to become mainstream.

It just makes sense.  Rising energy prices coupled with decreasing costs of many green building products and widespread acceptance of the many benefits of green building have produced a perfect storm that could realistically propel green building forward to mainstream acceptance.  The other major influence is the economic downturn, which is bringing liquid clarity to the costs of maintaining a traditional home, and the corresponding benefits to planning for energy efficiency.

Warren Lloyd, of Lloyd Architecture, says, “Things will be very different [when residential construction starts to heat up again after the downturn].  Green Building will just be how we do things.”  Lloyd, whose firm

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