{"id":835,"date":"2009-11-19T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T11:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=835"},"modified":"2010-03-24T11:09:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:09:35","slug":"bre%e2%80%99s-international-sustainability-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"BRE\u2019s International Sustainability Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"id1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>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 &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This proposal, linked from the web page below, outlines:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2022Organisational structure, membership commitments and further information \u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022The 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022An international rollout of BREEAM In-Use buildings using a pan-European database<\/p>\n<p>\u2022A ground breaking research programme on the value of green buildings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Fees and the application process<\/p>\n<p>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<br \/>\nOr please call +44 (0)1923 664462 (choose option 1) if you have any queries and would like us to contact you.<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.bre.co.uk\/page.jsp?id=2019\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bre.co.uk\/page.jsp?id=2019\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; and a key feature of the Alliance will be the development of robust, reliable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=835\">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-835","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\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}