Rival green building codes sign global alliance

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BREEAM, LEED and Green Star ink deal to draw up unified approach for measuring buildings' environmental impacts

The leading green building labelling schemes from the UK, US and Australia will later today sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) committing them to work together to develop common standards for measuring...

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