Findings report that LEED buildings save energy, due to many factors, but also indicates that LEED buildings can and will save energy and resources in the years to come.

Impacts take on the forms listed above and within them savings can be quantified in vehicle miles traveled reductions due to location efficiency, soil erosion reductions, and stormwater runoff reductions (see Sustainable Development Courses).

Materials Impacts are also important in the study, reporting significant increases in reuse of buildings and interior components, siting that reuse of buildings and materials has cumulatively saved “almost 17 million barrels of oil equivalent in embodied energy”, and this is expecteed to grow thirtyfold by 2030, to an amount “which is approximately equivalent to the amount of oil currently imported from Saudi Arabia”. The report also goes into more detail about Construction & Demolition waste, and estimated that LEED buildings have recycled or reused materials to the tune of nearly 25 million tons of construction waste, and this is anticipated to mushroom to hundreds of millions of tons of recycled and reused materials by 2020. To learn more about green building materials and waste see green building courses.

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The report also supports continued findings that employees are more productive in Green Buildings.

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