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World Green Building Week
Mon, 23rd Sep 2013From 16 to 20 September 2013, GBCs and their member companies around the world celebrated World Green Building Week.
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Paraguay GBC Celebrates Launch
Sun, 22nd Sep 2013The Paraguay Green Building Council celebrated its launch recently in Asunción, as well as holding an International Conference on Sustainable Construction. Both events were a resounding success.
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Europe Region Leadership Awards Winners Announced
Thu, 19th Sep 2013The World Green Building Council Europe Network is proud to announce the winners of its inaugural Europe Region Leadership Awards!
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Register Now for EcoDistricts Summit and Save
Thu, 19th Sep 2013Coming to Boston November 12-14, the EcoDistricts Summit is the premier conference dedicated to promoting urban sustainability from the neighbourhood up. The Summit will showcase inspiring keynote speakers and plenary panels, education sessions from national and international thought leaders, tours of Boston’s evolving sustainable neighbourhood projects, a Research Symposium with leading universities like Northeastern and Boston Universities, and a first annual Block Party to kick off the event.
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A New Era in Building Partnerships
Wed, 18th Sep 2013A New Era in Building Partnerships examines new forms of collaboration between NGOs, the public sector and industry which are helping to build better public policy and tools for a sustainable built environment.
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GBC CEOs Talk Green Buildings
Tue, 17th Sep 2013Join the green and global conversation: World Green Building Week Twitter chat on the theme, "Greener Buildings, Better Places, Healthier People".
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Ten ADEC Schools Awarded Estidama 3 Pearl Rating
Tue, 17th Sep 2013The Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) showed its support of World Green Building Week 2013 by announcing that ten Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) schools were awarded an Estidama 3 Pearl Design and Construction Rating from the Estidama Pearl Building Rating System (PBRS).
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World Green Building Week Is Here!
Mon, 16th Sep 2013Boosting student test scores, improving employee productivity, accelerating patient recovery rates, and slashing energy consumption in homes… green buildings are good for the planet and good for people too.
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Emirates GBC Awards Accepting Nominations
Mon, 16th Sep 2013The Emirates Green Building Council Awards are open to all organizations including public and private sector enterprises, associations, consultants and practitioners who are able to clearly demonstrate innovation and a high level of excellence in sustainable principles and practices in the MENA Region.
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Center for Green Schools Advancing Green School Commitments
Tue, 27th Aug 2013With their message aimed at reaching more than 1.6 million people this year, and a goal of more than 900,000 hours of volunteer work, the Center for Green Schools is doing some great work to ensure that all students have the opportunity to learn in green schools.
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Submit Your GBC's World Green Building Week Events
Wed, 21st Aug 2013World Green Building Week is just around the corner!
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Enter the Park Russia Architectural Competition
Wed, 21st Aug 2013Calling all sustainable masterplanners, landscape architects, leisure and cultural specialists!
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New Renovation tool will help cities tackle climate, economic and health crises
Thu, 14th Oct 2021The BUILD UPON2 framework helps local governments measure the full benefits of building retrofit, including environmental, social and economic impacts such as carbon savings, energy poverty alleviation and job creation.
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BUILD UPON2 City Series part 2: Budaörs
Wed, 14th Apr 2021WorldGBC finds out how the city of Budaörs is preparing to use the BUILD UPON2 framework to monitor renovation.
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WorldGBC’s response on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive review
Tue, 23rd Mar 2021WorldGBC has submitted a position paper on the review of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).
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WorldGBC’s recommendations on the Energy Efficiency Directive review
Tue, 23rd Feb 2021WorldGBC has submitted a position paper on the review of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED).
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