Advantages Of Green Building

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Chapter 4 The world is fair, there are always two sides of everything the green building are no exception. It has also a lot of people oppose and disagree the green building. They even seen that as a unimportant building. Some of reason for those opponent do not encourage to construct this building is because of the drawbacks of green building. 4.1 Drawbacks of Green Building 4.1.1 Cost One of the most prohibitive of disadvantage to build a green building is the cost. The building owner need shell out a lot of money initially. Normally the cost of construct a green building will cost more than a normal building. For example the LEO building in Malaysia. Although the LEO building can saving more than 50% of energy and promise giving payback the extra investment less than a decade, but the building owner need pay more 10% of construction cost compare to traditional office buildings in the beginning. Because of the green building is that is non-traditional, finding a lender to offer the loans for building maybe become more difficult. In addition some of them are the opponent who disagree the green building and some disagreement of partner lead more difficult to find the lender to build the green building. Another reason of cost a lot is because the materials. Green buildings are require using the eco-friendly materials to construct. While the building owner who live near to the urban areas may not difficult to find but for those people who live in the rural area are a