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Fort Myers advisory board hears Florida Green Building Coalition presentation; asks staff to explore implementation
Summary
A Florida Green Building Coalition presenter outlined FGBC’s flexible, Florida-specific green-building certification, citing roughly 46,000 state projects and disaster-mitigation credits; the board asked staff to invite the building official and local builders to assess implementation and incentives before recommending a path forward.
The Fort Myers Environmental Advisory Board on March 2 heard a presentation from a representative of the Florida Green Building Coalition (FGBC) on the group’s Florida-specific green-building certification program and asked staff to return with implementation options.
The presenter from the Florida Green Building Coalition described FGBC as a state-focused, nonprofit certification body that awards third-party-verified green-building certifications and maintains a public standards library and checklist. “To date, we’ve certified over 46,000 projects statewide,” the presenter said, and added the program includes energy (about 29% of total credits), water (20%) and…
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