By Donna Kelly in the Fifth Estate

5 March 2013 — In Australia 68 per cent more firms expect to be at “high levels of green” by 2015, building on a 56 per cent jump from 2009 to 2012, a new global survey from McGrath Hill found.

Architects, engineers, contractors, consultants and building firms around the world are moving towards green building, with 51 per cent of respondents of a new survey planning for more than 60 per cent of their work to be “green” by 2015, the survey found.

McGraw-Hill Construction’s SmartMarket Report, “World Green Building Trends – Business Benefits Driving New and Retrofit Market Opportunities in Over 60 Countries”, found the figure was well up from the 28 per cent that said the same for their work in 2013 and double the 13 per cent in 2008.

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