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Green Building

Construction Manager

What Does a Green
At a Glance
Building Construction
Green Building
Manager Do?
Construction
Manager In different cities and states, and
also depending on the company
Minimum Educational
that hires them, green building
Requirements
construction managers some-
Bachelor’s degree is becoming
the standard requirement times go by different titles.
Among others, these include
Personal Qualities
Mechanically inclined, strong or- green building construction area
ganizational and leadership skills, manager, green building con-
detail oriented, willingness to
struction foreman, green build-
work hard and put in long hours
ing construction superintendent,
Certification and Licensing
green building job site superin-
Generally voluntary
tendent, and green building gen-
Working Conditions
eral contractor.
Both indoors and outdoors
Whatever label it may bear,
Salary Range
this challenging profession lies
About $85,000 to $90,000 or
at the heart of the green build-
more for those with experience
ing construction industry. The
Number of Jobs
fastest-growing sector of the
About 2.9 million green con-
construction industry as a whole,
struction workers in the United
both in the United States and
States in 2017*
abroad, green building is rapidly
Future Job Outlook
eclipsing traditional construc-
Rapid growth expected
tion methods. In the latter, there
*This number includes green build-
ing construction managers. is little thought given to how a
house or other building might
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