The Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system is starting to gain ground in the UK, but can it challenge the dominance of BREEAM, the UK's design and assessment ...

Plant and Environmental Sciences Building: A lab retrofit project in 2014 resulted in 36 percent energy savings. (Michelle Dang/UC Davis) Building earns LEED gold for operations and maintenance ..

Environmental certification schemes for buildings overlook embodied carbon and encourage architects to add unnecessary "systems and gizmos" to achieve high ratings, according to architect Andrew Waugh ...

LEED is now the dominant green building standard in emerging markets and Europe, with BREEAM leading only in the UK. New research by the AJ has found only one project going through BREEAM ...

Digital Edition: BREEAM vs LEED. From an investor’s perspective, which certificate is worth pursuing? Obtaining a green building certification significantly increases the value of the building and ...

EXCLUSIVE: The ongoing expansion of LEED certification opportunities in Europe can enable businesses to become leaders in the built environment, by obtaining duel, third-party certifications that ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/k2t5jt/handbook_of_green) has announced the addition of Elsevier Science ...

A landmark Memorandum of Understanding between BREEAM, LEED and Green Star and the UK Green Building Council will be signed on Tuesday at EcoBuild’09 in Earls Court, London. Green Star is developed ...