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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. In other words, put lawyers in a room with enough diet coke, and there will be a drafting solution to the split-incentive problem. It is available here.

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