World Green Building Trends SmartMarket Report (2013)

This new report by Mcgraw-Hill Construction provides new strategic knowledge about various aspects of the green building market in over 60 countries. This is particularly critical as different industry players identify and plan around market opportunities. This study helps identify where those opportunities are and how different players can capitalize on those opportunities.

New and Retrofit Green Schools SmartMarket Report

In 2007, McGraw-Hill Construction, in partnership with the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) and the USGBC, conducted an analysis of owners and facility managers and provided an in-depth look at the green activities occurring in schools. The research in this SmartMarket Report builds upon those results and expands the research to a larger segment of the construction industry, such as architects, engineers and contractors that influence green school design and construction—both for new buildings and for renovation of existing ones.

Green Outlook 2013

McGraw-Hill Construction's Green Outlook 2013 reveals the newest size of the U.S. green building market, tracking the opportunity since 2005 and estimating the long-term opportunity over the next five years, providing a comprehensive insight into the future of this fast-growing segment of the construction industry.

2012 Greening of Corporate America

This is the third in a series of reports that were published in 2006 and 2009 to investigate the emerging trend of corporate sustainability. The survey was conducted again in 2012 to determine how corporate sustainability has continued to evolve and to understand how the nation's largest companies are institutionalizing sustainability into business policy and practice.

SmartMarket Executive Brief: Determining the Value of Green Building Investments (2012)

This new SmartMarket Executive Brief provides the findings of qualitative research conducted through interviews with sustainability leaders in the education, retail, manufacturing and federal government on their perspectives on triple bottom line decision making.

A Path to Achieving Higher Building Performance 2012

This report assesses the “Stages of Green” across the built environment, providing key metrics to map a path for building owners and managers to migrate lower performing facilities toward higher stages of sustainability.

SmartMarket Report: Construction Industry Workforce Shortages (2012)

The new Smart Market Report, Construction Industry Workforce Shortages reveals the current status and future expectations around the availability of a trained skilled workforce in the construction industry.

New and Remodeled Green Homes: Transforming the Residential Marketplace (2012)

The new Smartmarket Report, provides market sizing of the green residential construction market and examines the market opportunities in green home building and remodeling. The study reveals business benefits afforded by green building, such as a competitive marketing advantage: 46% of builders and remodelers find that “building green” makes it easier to market themselves in a down economy, and an overwhelming 71% of firms that are dedicated to green home building report the same. The 56-page report contains market research data as well as several green home building case studies and thought leader interviews with experts on green home construction and remodeling.

Whitepaper: The Impact of School Buildings on Student Health and Performance: A Call for Research (2012)

This whitepaper is a call to research to strengthen our understanding of the relationship between school buildings and student health and learning. The paper lays out the challenge: filling the gaps and clearly building links in investigating the underlying phenomena of how children are impacted by their school buildings....