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Green Buildings

Learn about sustainable green building projects. Green building is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction.

Green Buildings on Brownfields Initiative: Pilot Projects is a fact sheet that lists pilot projects such as a community center building in Springfield, Massachusetts the National Aquarium in Baltimore.