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Published: 5 March 2012ECOS No. 169 Top ten predictions for green buildingsRomilly Madew Australia’s green building sector has come a long way since the first Green-Star rated building was completed in Canberra in 2004. Ms Romilly Madew, Chief Executive of the Green Building Council of Australia, believes green building is fast becoming the norm. Here, she presents her top ten predictions for our future built environment.The project team behind this building at 1 Bligh St Sydney, which has a 6 Green Star rating for office design, used 3D building information modelling (BIM) technology during the design and construction phases. BIM systems will become more comprehensive and will be more widely used in the near future. Credit: GBCA Since 2004, the .auGreen Building Council of Australia (GBCA) has certified more than 4.2 million square metres of space. With 900 member companies, it is one of the world’s largest green building councils.There are strong indications that the construction industry and the corporate world see green building as an inevitable part of ‘business as usual’ in the immediate future. As is the present case with fire safety standards and disability access, sustainability will soon be taken for granted. According to several recent surveys, it will become ‘just the way we build’:64 per cent of respondents believe that sustainability is a critical business issue (Jones Lang La Salle global corporate occupier survey)more than half of global construction firms expect to be fully committed to green building by 2013 (McGraw Hill Construction report)sustainability was ranked the number one industry opportunity over the next five years, and one of the major risks included failing to adapt to a carbon-constrained future (Davis Langdon 2011 Construction Sentiment survey).Here are my top ten predictions for the built environment in the years to come.1. The focus on existing buildings will intensifyIn the United States, the fastest-growing rating tool in 2011 wa