Midwest Green Building Case Study Project
The Midwest Green Building Case Study Project (MGBCS) is funded by the USGBC. It is designed to spur more broad and effective investment in green buildings amongst the Midwest region’s real estate professionals, developers, building owners, managers, and tenants thereby aligning with USGBC’s mission of market transformation towards a more sustainable built environment. It does this by filling a current knowledge gap: the lack of detailed case studies focused on the costs, cost savings, and environmental/natural resource benefits of operating green buildings in the Midwest, thereby addressing this known regional market barrier. The pilot phase, public review draft will be released May, 2008. Several pilot phase case studies will be used to illustrate the performance measures this searchable database will include. The second phase will include 30 case studies.
| Project: | Midwest Green Building Case Study Project |
| Principal Investigator: | John Carmody, Jonee Kulman Brigham |
| Project Team: | Other CSBR: Rachel O'Malley, Patrick Hamilton University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: Michael Utzinger, James Wasley USGBC Chicago Chapter: Doug Widener |
| Project Partners: | Building Green, Inc. (National) U.S. EPA Region 5 (Regional) USGBC Mississippi Headwaters Chapter, MN Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, MN Minnesota Environmental Initiative, MN University of Wisconsin Wisconsin Green Building Alliance (USGBC Affiliate), WI City of Milwaukee, WI USGBC Chicago, IL And through them: City of Chicago Department of Environment, IL Delta Institute, IL Center for Neighborhood Technology, IL |
| Sponsor: | U.S. Green Building Council |
| Status: | Ongoing |