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Montenegro GBC Receives Ozone Preservation Award
Fri, 19th Sep 2014The Montenegro Green Building Council has been selected as the winner of the 2014 Award for Preservation of the Ozone Layer by the Montenegro Environmental Protection Agency.
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Discount Registration for WSB14 Barcelona During WGBWeek
Mon, 15th Sep 2014The World Sustainable Building 2014 Conference is offering a special registration rate during World Green Building Week. Sign up during WGBWeek (22 to 27 September) to attend this premier event in Barcelona being held from 28 to 30 October. You can register for the equivalent of early bird prices, a saving of up to 120 euro
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WorldGBC Partners with Leading Australian Low Carbon Research
Mon, 8th Sep 2014The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) and Australia’s leading organisation working towards building sustainable communities – the Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living (CRCLCL) – have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to take a global step towards defining ‘low’ to ‘no’ carbon cities in our world
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Sign Up Free for Explosion Green Live
Mon, 8th Sep 2014Join David Gottfried for 45 minute hosted conversations with 40 of the world's foremost thought leaders in green building and sustainability, including bestselling authors, greentech CEOs, major developers, and luminary architects, engineers and green movement leaders. WorldGBC CEO Jane Henley is amongst those interviewed. Sign up now to be part of this free event which runs from 15 to 19 September, online.
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Australia and New Zealand Lead the World in Green Building
Thu, 4th Sep 2014The Australia and New Zealand real estate market is the world’s greenest, according to the latest Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB)
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Winners Announced: Asia Pacific Green Leadership Awards
Wed, 3rd Sep 2014The winners of the World Green Building Council’s (WorldGBC’s) inaugural Asia Pacific Regional Network Leadership Awards in Green Building have been announced at a gala dinner in Singapore this evening
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Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards - 2014
Mon, 1st Sep 2014The Leadership in Green Building Awards honor outstanding organisations for their commitment to sustainability, and celebrate innovative green building projects...
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International Mixed Use Community Development Design Competition
Thu, 28th Aug 2014The Cascadia Green Building Council – Vancouver Island Collaborative is hosting an international design competition for a mixed-use community development project known as Esquimalt Village. This competition is open to teams from all over the world. Entrants can be students or working professionals of architecture, engineering and other technical disciplines
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New Estonian Life Cycle Standard Imminent
Wed, 20th Aug 2014The NQS Eesti version of the ‘EVS lifecycle’ (lifecycle standard/ certification for real estate and renewable energy) created by GBC Eesti has been accepted into the EVS (Estonian Standards Authority) process to become a new Estonian Standard. EVS is the official state organisation dealing with integrating ISO and European standards into the Estonian context as well as vice versa
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GBC Italia Appoints New President
Wed, 20th Aug 2014Mr. Gianni Silvestrini is the new Preseident of the GBC Italia
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Asia Pacific Green Leadership Recognised
Mon, 18th Aug 2014Eight exceptional green building projects and seven leading companies have been named finalists in the World Green Building Council’s (WorldGBC’s) inaugural Asia Pacific Regional Network Leadership Awards in Green Building.
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Register Now for the 2014 EcoDistricts Summit
Fri, 15th Aug 2014This September 24-26, the world’s most innovative city makers will converge on Washington DC — a city that has captured the spirit of creative collaboration like few others – for the 2014 EcoDistricts Summit.
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