McGraw-Hill Construction Releases the Education Green Building SmartMarket Report at the Council of Educational Facility Planners International's 5th High Performance Schools Symposium SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, McGraw-Hill Construction (MHC), part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP) , releases the latest issue of its SmartMarket Report(TM) series, detailing its findings of market research into green building in the education construction sector. The report will be released at the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) 5th Annual High Performance Schools Symposium. CEFPI and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) were co-sponsors of the report. MHC found that the education sector is the fastest-growing market for green building, good news for the industry, given that education construction is the largest construction sector, by value, at $53 billion for 2007. MHC focused on the education sector because of the specific sensitivities children have to indoor air pollutants and environments, as well as the amount of time students (at the K-12 and university levels) spend in these buildings. "The results are very exciting. Given the fact that education construction is worth $53 billion overall and the market indicators point to strong green building growth in this sector, we expect the green building share to be significant in five years," stated Harvey M. Bernstein, McGraw- Hill Construction vice president of Industry Analytics, Alliances and Strategic Initiatives. "Research like this will help shed light on this important area of green building - and help us to make the case to truly provide our nation's students with environments that will maximize their learning." Thomas A. Kube, Executive Director and CEO of CEFPI, concurred: "The findings in the SmartMarket Report are important because they confirm a lot of what we thought about the challenges and advantages of green schools. Our members have been increasingly aware of the importance of high-performance schools, and we will continue to use our High Performance Schools Symposium as a forum to help in the building and maintenance of more efficient and healthy schools." For more information on the Education Green Building SmartMarket Report or other MHC studies, go to http://www.analyticsstore.construction.com/, email construction_intelligence@mcgraw-hill.com or call (800) 591-4462.
