Green buildings in Canada

Green buildings have been regarded as the efficient method and practical strategy for mitigating climate change, minimizing energy consumption and creating more liveable and environmentally friendly communities. Green buildings benefit the whole society in several aspects, they lead to the improvement in the architecture industry, including the delivery and produce of service, product and technology design and manufacturing, the use of material and resource.

Commercial factor play an important role in the raise of green buildings, building owners and institutional investors prefer more eco-friendly buildings that could provide better experience during living in the towers. Policy makers prefer to give more assistance for the construction of green buildings because they could provide outcome in economic, social and environmental aspects.

A study in 2014 showed that green building industry employed over 290,000 full-time worker directly in Canada, and generate approximately 23 billion dollar in GDP. It shows the huge market in the green building industry, which could not only benefit local economic, but also lead to a more environmentally friendly culture and lifestyle. The growth of green building industry indicates the popularization of eco-friendly lifestyle and could create more opportunities for people to live with nature, invest on natural environment and benefit from environment.