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The green building trend goes beyond saving the environment. Owners of green homes reap a variety of benefits that include utility savings, improved indoor air quality and less overall maintenance. Not surprisingly, green homes also have less negative impact on the environment by saving energy and reducing waste, particularly during construction. This paper describes commercial building indoor air quality practices and then discusses them in the context of total building environmental performance. "Green buildings" generally have included some effort to address indoor air quality issues along with an unspecified number of other environmental concerns. Rarely, if ever, is analysis conducted to evaluate trade-offs made among environmental features considered important in "green" buildings even though conflicts occur among design features intended to improve a building's environmental performance.
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