Business Benefits - Higher return on investment

Green buildings also deliver a higher return on investment. The McGraw Hill Construction Report (2007) found that building green increases a property's values by 7.5% and improves the return on investment by 6.6%.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' report, Green Value: Growing Buildings, Growing Assets (2006) confirms this, revealing that green building practices improve an asset's value by securing tenants more quickly, commanding higher rents or prices, enjoying lower tenant turnover, costing less to operate and maintain, attracting grants, subsidies and other inducements, and improving business productivity for occupants, which affects churn, renewals, inducements and fitting out costs.

The return on investment is not just impressive for office buildings. One international review of 30 sustainable schools, Greening America's Schools: Costs and Benefits (2006), found that green schools save an average of US$100,000 a year - enough to buy 200 new computers or 5,000 new textbooks.

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