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GSA Reviews more than 100 Green Building Systems and Selects 5

Green Building Law Update

GSA is now undertaking the next 5 year review and last week released a draft report of its recommendations. The screening next identified 6 systems that likely met the government’s requirements for its own building (one system, Earth Advantage, declined to participate): BOMA BEST Sustainable Buildings, version 3.0. LEED, version 4.0.

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DOE Releases Green Lease Website, and More Musings on the Split Incentive "Problem"

Green Building Law Blog

The Department of Energy and several interesting partners (both BOMA and NRDC, for example) have launched a website consolidating green lease resources. Much is made of green leases, and the "split incentive problem" that is seen as a barrier to green building, and which green leases are designed to address.

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