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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
11. Demonstrate Performance, Learn from Failure
Authors : Kim Sorvig, J. William Thompson
Published in: Sustainable Landscape Construction
Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
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Abstract
It is easy to forget how young contemporary green building is. Many green methods are as old as vernacular construction, dating back millennia. But the current movement is often dated to the first Earth Day, in 1970, and to experimentation in response to the 1973 “oil crisis.” Formation of the AIA’s Committee on the Environment in 1989, and the launch of LEED in 1998, are other benchmarks. Depending on which of these dates is used, the movement is no more than forty-four years old, and in the United States, attempts to set standards began only twenty years ago. The pattern is typical: as a young discipline or industry grows, competing definitions of success, failure, and quality come to the fore, gradually resolving into agreed standards. Almost every type of product or service has its own certification and set of standards, sometimes more than one.