BREEAM and LEED create new global standard

The organisations behind the world’s three leading environmental assessment tools are combining forces to come up with a common way to measure carbon emissions from new buildings. BREEAM – which is owned and run by BRE – and the US and Australian equivalents LEED and Green Star at present use differing methods to measure the environmental impact of buildings. However, a memorandum of understanding will be signed today (3 March, 2009) between the UK Green Building Council, BRE, the US Green Building Council and the Green Building Council Australia to develop common metrics to measure emissions of CO2 equivalents from new homes and buildings.
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