The International Sustainability Alliance will drive the development of common international standards for real estate. These standards will embrace both new buildings and existing buildings – and a key feature of the Alliance will be the development of robust, reliable data on existing buildings that can be used by its members.
The Alliance will play a vital role providing an international governance structure to further develop a common international environmental assessment standard. It will join forces with international companies, Green Building Councils, research institutes and other stakeholders in the real estate chain to achieve a common goal: driving an international sustainability standard for the built environment.
We are now inviting leading companies and organisations, that are prepared to make a real commitment to improving the environmental performance of new and existing buildings, to sign up to become founding members of the Alliance.
This proposal, linked from the web page below, outlines:
•Organisational structure, membership commitments and further information .
•The multi-stage approach to establish a common pan-European database, based on new and existing buildings, to enable collection, evaluation and exchange of environmental data for CR reporting and benchmarking.
•An international rollout of BREEAM In-Use buildings using a pan-European database
•A ground breaking research programme on the value of green buildings.
•Fees and the application process
More information will appear on a dedicated Alliance website to be launched soon. Contact Martin Townsend, Director of BREEAM, BRE Global, Bucknalls Lane, Watford, Herts., WD25 9XX, United Kingdom
Or please call +44 (0)1923 664462 (choose option 1) if you have any queries and would like us to contact you.
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