{"id":298,"date":"2009-03-06T18:21:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T18:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-03-22T18:21:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:21:39","slug":"breeam-and-leed-create-new-global-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"BREEAM and LEED create new global standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The  organisations behind the world&#8217;s three leading environmental assessment  tools are combining forces to come up with a common way to measure  carbon emissions from new buildings. BREEAM \u2013 which is owned and run by  BRE \u2013 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.<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=3135155&amp;origin=bldgdailynewsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=3135155&amp;origin=bldgdailynewsletter\">http:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=3135155&amp;origin=bldgdailynewsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organisations behind the world&#8217;s three leading environmental assessment tools are combining forces to come up with a common way to measure carbon emissions from new buildings. BREEAM \u2013 which is owned and run by BRE \u2013 and the US &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}