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In 1999, the City of Portland, Oregon, initiated a Green Building Initiative to overcome barriers to green buildings and to promote their construction. A study was conducted in support of the Initiative to assess what constituted green buildings and what their costs and impacts would be. Based on the retrospective analysis of three recently built City buildings, this paper presents the results of applying the LEED^TM green building rating system, the criteria used to select green building options, and the first costs, life cycle costs, and societal costs associated with greening these buildings.

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Panels of the 2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Panel 1. Residential Buildings: Technologies, Design, and Performance Analysis

Panel 2. Residential Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Panel 3. Commercial Buildings: Technologies, Design, and Performance Analysis

Panel 4. Commercial Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Panel 5. Deregulation of the Utility Industry and Role of Energy Services Companies (ESCOs)

Panel 6. Market Transformation

Panel 7. Information and Electronic Technologies

Panel 8. Consumer Behavior and Non-Energy Effects

Panel 9. Energy and Environmental Polics

Panel 10. Building Industry Trends