I ran across a great website and blog, Jetson Green last week after I was sent his post about the 4th Annual Green Building Survey. By the way, the survey was conducted in February 2010 (yeah, recent and current opinion polls) and covers 1600 respondents.

The full Green Building Survey is here.

The Jetson Green blog about the survey is here.

If you aren’t going to read the full articles, here are the high points that I found most interesting:

1. The survey found that 92.3% agree that it is worth the time and effort to build green, while only 61.7% feel it is worth the time and effort to obtain LEED certification. This response shows an increasing gap in sentiment between building green and obtaining certification for the same.

By the way, Preston Koerner, the primary blogger, also re-hashed most of the LEED certification knocks in a solid piece here from August 2009.

2. The survey found that the top reason for building green was to save energy and other operating costs. The next best factor was to improve the environment, while factors such as achieving higher rents and improving tenant productivity were important, but not as important as other factors.

3. The survey found that 88% of respondents said they were more likely to incorporate energy saving elements going forward, representing a 14% increase of last year’s survey conducted by the same group.

Green Squared helps property owners all over the country help save money with their energy and water costs. And remember, any energy efficiency measure acts as a financial hedge against rising energy costs! How much did you budget in energy cost increases in 2010?

Great stuff from Preston! You can also follow him on Twitter at @jetsongreen.